India and Pakistan: Is Peace Real This Time?

Ashley J. Tellils is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Woshinigton, D.C. He is also a senior consulting fellow for South Asia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. Before his current appointment at the Carnegie, he was commissioned into the Foreign Service with the US Department of State and served as senior adviser to the US ambassador to India. He has also briefly served on the National Security Council staff as special assistant to the president and senior director for strategic planning and Southwest Asia. Prior to his government service, he spent eight years with the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, as a senior policy analyst and as a professor of policy analysis at the RAND Graduate School. Tellis’s research interests focus on international relations theory, military strategy and proliferation issues, South Asian politics, and United State – Asia security relations. He has written two books: India’s Emerging Nuclear Posture (RAND, 2001) and Interpreting China’s Grand Strategy: Past, Present, and Future (coauthored with Michael Swaine, RAND, 2000). He has published scholarly articles in several edited volumes and journals, including the Journal of Strategic Studies, Asian Survey, Orbis, comparative Strategy, the Naval War College Review, and Security Studies.

Husain Haqqani is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment. He is also a leading journalist and diplomat, and a former adviser to Pakistani prime ministers, as well as a syndicated columnist for the Indian Express, Gulf News, and The Nation (Pakistan). Haqqani’s journalism career has also included assignments as East Asia correspondent for Arabia – The Islamic World Review and Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review. He contributes to numerous international publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial times, the Boston globe, the International Harald Tribune, and the Gulf News. He regularly comments on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Islamic Politics and extremism on BBC, CNN, NBC, and ABC. Haqqani has also had a distinguished career in government. He served as an adviser to Pakistani prime ministers Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Nawaz Sharif, and Benazir Bhutto. From 1992 to 1993, he was Pakistan’s ambassador to Sri Lanka.