Sameer P. Lalwani

Sameer Lalwani is Deputy Director of the South Asia program at the Stimson Center and a Research Affiliate of MIT’s Center for International Studies.

His research interests include grand strategy, counterinsurgency, civil-military relations, ethnic conflict, nuclear security, and the national security politics of South Asia and the Middle East.

Sameer has conducted field research in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and the British archives. His work has been published through RAND, Oxford University Press, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, War on the Rocks, CTC Sentinel, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and a number of other outlets.

Previously he was a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the RAND Corporation, a Predoctoral Fellow at George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, a member of the CNAS Next Gen National Security Leaders Program, a participant in the CSIS Nuclear Scholars Initiative, and a policy analyst with the New America Foundation. He holds B.A. in political science from University of California, Berkeley.