Dr. Asfandyar Mir is a Senior Fellow for South Asia at the Stimson Center. Previously, he was a senior expert at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), where he focused on South Asia and U.S. counterterrorism policy. His research spans international relations of South Asia, South Asian foreign policies and military strategies, U.S. foreign policy towards South Asia, and U.S. counterterrorism strategy. From 2022-2024, he directed a USIP senior study group on U.S. counterterrorism policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Dr. Mir’s scholarly work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals including British Journal of Political Science, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, and Perspectives on Politics. His work has been published by Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His recent research has focused on information operations, nationalism, political coalitions, and the effectiveness of counterterrorism strategies.

Dr. Mir is also an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He is an affiliate at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, where he previously served as a postdoctoral teaching fellow (2019-2021), postdoctoral fellow (2018-2019), and predoctoral fellow (2017-2018). He was also a lecturer in Stanford University’s Political Science department. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and his M.A. in International Policy and B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.