Christine Fair
Senior Research Associate, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention
South Asia | Territorial and Low-Intensity Conflict | Internal Security Reform | Terrorism and Political Extremism | Civil–Military Relations | Economics and Conflict
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Languages: Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Persian
C. Christine Fair is a senior research associate in USIP’s Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, where she specializes in South Asian political and military affairs.
Prior to joining USIP in April 2004, she was an associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Much of her research has been concerned with security competition between India and Pakistan, Pakistan’s internal security, analyses of the causes of terrorism, and U.S. strategic relations with India and Pakistan. She has conducted several analyses for the U.S. government, including an assessment of Indo-U.S. army-to-army relations; an examination of political Islam and its recent developments in Pakistan and Iran; and a comparative study of urban terrorism and state responses in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and India.
Fair is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she earned a master’s from the Harris School of Public Policy and her Ph.D. in South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Publications:
- "India and Iran: New Delhi’s Balancing Act," The Washington Quarterly (Summer 2007, Vol 30, No.3).
- "American and Iranian Public Opinion: The Quest for Common Grounds," Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Spring 2007, Vol XXX, No.3).
- "Indo-Iranian Ties: Thicker Than Oil," The Middle East Review of International Affairs (March 2007, Vol 11, No.1).
- "Bangladesh on the Brink," co-authored with Sumit Ganguly, The Wall Street Journal (February 5, 2007).
- Bangladesh at the Crossroads
Special Report, January 2007
- Troubles on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border
USIPeace Briefing, December 2006
 Faltering Sri Lankan Peace Process, Journal of International Peace Operations (Vol. 2, No. 3, Nov-Dec 2006).- Fortifying Pakistan: The Role of U.S. Internal Security and Law Enforcement Assistance, co-authored with Peter Chalk (USIP Press, 2006).
- Islamic Education in Pakistan (March 2006).
- "Think Again: Sources of Islamist Terrorism," co-authored with Husain Haqqani, Foreign Policy (January, 2006).
- "Demographics and Security: The Contrasting Cases of Pakistan and Bangladesh," co-authored with Clifford Grammich, Julie DaVanzo, and Brian Nichiporuk, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2005).
- "Research Note: Who Supports Terrorism? Insights from Fourteen Muslim Countries," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, co-authored with Bryan Shepherd (forthcoming in Vol.29, No. 2, December/January, 2006).
- Nepal: Rule of Law and Human Rights Challenges
USIPeace Briefing (August 2005)
- Bangladesh: Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Crisis?
USIPeace Briefing (May 2005)
- "US—Indian Army-to-Army Relations: Prospects for Future Coalition Operations?," Asian Security (Vol. 1, No. 2, April, 2005).
- "Diaspora Involvement in Insurgencies: Insights from the Khalistan and Tamil Eelam Movements," Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring, 2005).
- "Learning to Think the Unthinkable: Lessons from India's Nuclear Test," India Review (Vol. 4, No. 1, January, 2005).
- "Militant recruitment in Pakistan: Implications for Al-Qa'ida and Other Organizations," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (Vol. 27, No. 6, November/December, 2004).
- India and Pakistan Engagement: Prospect for Breakthrough or Breakdown
USIP Special Report 129 (January, 2005)
- The Counterterror Coalitions: Cooperation with Pakistan and India (RAND, 2004).
- Urban Battle Fields of South Asia: Lessons Learned from Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan (RAND, 2004).
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