Shashank Joshi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London and a Research Associate at the Changing Character of War Programme at Oxford University. He is also a PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University. He specialises in international security in South Asia and the Middle East, with a particular interest in Indian foreign and defence policy. He received his BA from Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge and his MA from Harvard, where he was a Kennedy Scholar. He has lectured frequently at the UK Defence Academy and to other diplomatic, military, and academic audiences in the UK and abroad. His work has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed and policy journals, and in British, American and Indian newspapers.
His most recent academic and policy publications include ‘India and the Middle East’, Asian Affairs (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2015); ‘India's Nuclear Anxieties: The Debate Over Doctrine, Arms Control Today (September 2015); ‘An Evolving Indian Nuclear Doctrine?’ in Michael Krepon, Joshua T White, Julia Thompson and Shane Mason (eds), Deterrence Instability and Nuclear Weapons in South Asia (Washington DC: Stimson Center 2015); ‘Assessing Britain's Role in Afghanistan’, Asian Survey (Vol. 55, No. 2, March/April 2015); ‘The Coup-Proofing of India, Survival (Vol. 57, No. 2, April–May 2015); ‘India's Role in a Changing Afghanistan’, Washington Quarterly (Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer 2014); ‘Looking West: India and the Middle East’, Seminar (No. 658, June 2014); and ‘Iran and the Geneva Agreement: A Footnote to History or a Turning Point?’, RUSI Journal (Vol. 159, No. 1, 2014).