Program Officer, South Asia
Research and Studies Program

Areas of Specialization

South Asia • Territorial and Low-Intensity Conflict • Internal Security Reform • Terrorism and Political Extremism • Civil-Military Relations • Economics and Conflict

Foreign Language: Hindi, basic Persian, Punjabi, Urdu

Phone: Office (202) 429-3892

Background

C. Christine Fair is a program officer in the Institute's Research and Studies Program, where she specializes in South Asian political and military affairs. Prior to joining the Institute 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.

A contributor to several edited volumes on South Asian security, Fair co-authored Limited Conflicts Under the Nuclear Umbrella: Indian and Pakistani Lessons from the Kargil Crisis. Her analyses have appeared in India Review, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Atlantic Monthly and Jane's Intelligence Review. Her latest article: "Militant Recruitment in Pakistan: Implications for Al-Qa'ida and Other Organizations" will appear in the forthcoming issue of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Fair is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she earned her M.A. from the Harris School of Public Policy, and her Ph.D. in South Asian languages and civilizations.