Infocus With Ejaz Haider EP66: Defining Deterrence Between India-Pakistan
Guests: Dr. Devin Hagerty and Dr. Jeffrey Knopf
Dr. Devin Hagerty is Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland Baltimore Country . He teaches courses on international relations, national security policy, and South Asian politics and international affairs. He is the author of The Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation: Lessons from South Asia (MIT Press, 1998) and Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence Stability in South Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), as well as co-author (with Sumit Ganguly) of Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons (University of Washington Press, 2005). He also edited South Asia in World Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). He has published in International Security, Security Studies, Current History, Asian Survey, Nonproliferation Review, the Australian Journal of International Affairs, and other scholarly journals. He co-edits the journal Asian Security. He was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a B.A. from Rutgers University.
Dr. Jeffrey Knopf is a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), where he serves as chair of the M.A. program in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies. Dr. Knopf is also a research affiliate with the Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) and Stanford University’s Center on International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Dr. Knopf received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford. Prior to joining the MIIS faculty, he taught at the Naval Postgraduate School, the University of California-Santa Cruz, and the University of Southern California. Dr. Knopf is a former editor of The Nonproliferation Review and has published research on nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, deterrence strategy, and how public opinion, NGOs, and social movements affect national security policies.