Michael Kugelman is an American foreign policy author and expert specializing in South Asia. He is the director of the South Asia Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. [1] He is an columnist for the Foreign Policy Magazine. [2] His work covers Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan. [3] [4]
Kugelman completed his bachelors at the American University School of International Service. [5] He did his masters in law and diplomacy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. [5]
Kugelman joined the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2007 as head of the South Asia portfolio. [5] He had edited or co-edited 11 books. [6]
Kugelman writes the weekly South Asia Brief of the Foreign Policy. [7] He has written for Al Jazeera, [8] East Asia Forum, [9] Foreign Affairs, [10] Lowy Institute, [11] The Diplomat, [1] The Washington Times, [12] Time, [13] National Interest , [14] New York Times, [14] and War on the Rocks. [3] He has written for Bangladeshi newspapers, such as The Business Standard, [15] and The Daily Star. [16]
William Bryant Milam is an American diplomat, and is Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Sir Frank P. Lowy is an Australian-Israeli businessman of Jewish Slovak-Hungarian origins and the former long-time chairman of Westfield Corporation, a global shopping centre company with US$29.3 billion of assets under management in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. In June 2018 Westfield Corporation was acquired by French company Unibail-Rodamco.
The Lowy Institute is an independent think tank founded in April 2003 by Frank Lowy to conduct original, policy-relevant research regarding international political, strategic and economic issues from an Australian perspective. It is based in Sydney, Australia.
The Middle East Institute (MEI) is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank and cultural centre in Washington, D.C., founded in 1946. It seeks to "increase knowledge of the Middle East among the United States citizens and promote a better understanding between the people of these two areas."
Bruce W. Jentleson is a professor of public policy and political science at Duke University, where he served from 2000 to 2005 as Director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He previously was a professor at the University of California, Davis and Director of the UC Davis Washington Center. In addition to his academic career, he has served in a number of foreign policy positions in Democratic administrations.
Ayesha Siddiqa (Urdu: عائِشہ صِدّیقہ; born 7 April 1966), is a Pakistani political scientist, and an author who serves as a research associate at the SOAS South Asia Institute.
Patrick Lyell Clawson is an American economist and Middle East scholar. He is currently the Director for Research at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and senior editor of Middle East Quarterly.
Aaron David Miller is an American Middle East analyst, author, and negotiator. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on U.S. foreign policy. He previously was vice president for new initiatives at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and has been an advisor to both Republican and Democratic secretaries of state. He is a Global Affairs Analyst for CNN.
Wang Yi is a Chinese diplomat and politician who has been serving as Director of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Foreign Affairs Commission Office since January 2023, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of China since July 2023.
Dennis H. Kux is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire (1986–89). He is the author of India and the United States: Estranged Democracies 1941-1991 and The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: Disenchanted Allies. He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations. Kux served in the US embassy in Karachi in Pakistan from 1957 to 1959, followed by a tour in India. He again served in Pakistan from 1969 to 1971.
Selig Seidenman Harrison was a scholar and journalist, who specialized in South Asia and East Asia. He was the Director of the Asia Program and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He was also a member of the Afghanistan Study Group. He wrote five books on Asian affairs and U.S. relations with Asia. His last book, Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement, won the 2002 award of the Association of American Publishers for the best Professional/Scholarly Book in Government and Political Science.
Riaz Mohammad Khan holds a master's degree in mathematics and a B.A. (honors) from Punjab University, Lahore.
Elkhan Nuriyev is an Azerbaijani political scientist and a recognized expert in Eurasian affairs, including Russia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.
Ali Riaz is a Bangladeshi American political scientist and writer, currently serving as the head of the Bangladesh Constitutional Reform Commission. He is a Distinguished Professor at Illinois State University where he joined in 2002. Most of his work deals with religion and politics, particularly on South Asian politics and political Islam. He has written extensively on Bangladeshi politics and madrasas in South Asia. He was the editor of Studies on Asia, a bi-annual journal of the Midwestern Conference on Asian Affairs (2010–2015).
Hamid Akın Ünver is an assistant professor of international relations at Kadir Has University, specializing in energy politics, conflict psychology and radicalization sociology. He also studies discourse theory, regional security complex theory and psychoanalytic approaches to decision-making and teaches courses on the politics of the Middle East, diplomatic history, energy security and security theory.
Alexander Evans is an academic who has served as a British diplomat. He is a Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics. He also holds a visiting appointment at the University of Southern California.
Barbara Slavin is an American journalist and foreign policy expert. She is a Distinguished Fellow at The Stimson Center and former director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Programs.
Zahid Hussain is a Pakistani journalist, writer and television analyst.
Park Jin is a South Korean diplomat and politician. He is a four-term member of the National Assembly and served as the 40th Foreign Minister.
China's salami slicing is a geopolitical strategy involving a series of small steps allegedly taken by the government of China that would become a larger gain which would have been difficult or unlawful to perform all at once. When discussing this concept, notedly debated in the publications of the Lowy Institute from Australia, some defenders of the concept are Brahma Chellaney, Jasjit Singh, Bipin Rawat or the Observer Research Foundation from India or the United States Institute of Peace, Bonnie S. Glaser or Erik Voeten from the US, while detractors are H. S. Panag from India or Linda Jakobson. Advocates of the term have cited examples such as the territorial disputes in the South China Sea and along the Sino-Indian border.