Shashank Joshi is a Research Fellow at RUSI and a doctoral student of international relations at Harvard University's Department of Government. He specialises in the international security of South Asia and the Middle East. He has published peer-reviewed work in academic journals, commented on international affairs for radio and television, and is a regular contributor to newspapers including the New York Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Hindu and Times of India.
Shashank holds Master's degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, and previously graduated with a Starred First in politics and economics from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University. During 2007–08, he was a Kennedy Scholar from Britain to the United States.
He has taught as a supervisor and teaching fellow at both Cambridge and Harvard. He has also worked for the National Democratic Institute in Moscow on electoral analysis and democratic training projects, Citigroup in New York in their regulatory reporting division, and in RUSI's Asia Programme on India and global security issues. He is a graduate of the Columbia-Cornell Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy.
His recent publications include ‘India's Military Instrument: A Doctrine Stillborn’, Journal of Strategic Studies (forthcoming, 2013); ‘Transition from Assad’, in ‘Syria Crisis Briefing: A Collision Course for Intervention’, RUSI Briefing Paper, 25 July 2012; ‘China-India Relations: Awkward Ascents’, Orbis (Fall 2011); ‘Reflections on the Arab Revolutions: Order, Democracy, and Western Policy’, RUSI Journal (Vol. 156, No. 2, April 2011); ‘China, India and the “Whole Set-Up and Balance of the World”’, STAIR: St. Antony's International Review (Vol. 6, No. 2, February 2011); and ‘India's AfPak Strategy’, RUSI Journal (Vol. 155, No. 1, March 2010).