Haider A. H. Mullick

Haider Ali Hussein Mullick is a fellow at the U.S. Joint Special Operations University and the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. Additionally, he consults with government organizations and advises on security, diplomacy, governance and development issues in South Asia. 

In the past he has conducted research at the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Studies (U.S.-Pakistan Relations), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Pakistan’s Political Economy and Reviving Failed States), and the Hudson Institute’s Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World (Madrassa Education and Links to Islamist Militancy). 

He is the author of Pakistan’s Security Paradox: Countering and Fomenting Insurgencies. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Middle East Institute honored the book-length monograph by hosting a keynote speech by the author; President of the Middle East Institute, Ambassador Wendy J. Chamberlin, called it essential reading for the U.S. foreign policy community.

Mr. Mullick is also affiliated with the University of Bradford’s Pakistan Security Research Unit and Pakistan’s Spearhead Research where he focuses on broader issues of security, development, and the geopolitics of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and South Asia.

Mullick’s policy work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Yale Global, World Politics Review, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Oxford Analytica, Pakistan Security Research Unit, the University of Bradford’s Policy Brief, Jane’s Policy Brief, the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Afghanistan Report, and the Heritage Foundation’s Backgrounder.

His editorials have appeared in Newsweek, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Diplomat, The Nation (Pakistan), The Daily Times, The News International, The Times of India, Indian Express, Gulf News, and Pakistan Link.

Mullick has also appeared as an analyst on CNN, PBS Newshour, NPR Radio, ITN, Al Jazeera English Riz Khan Show, the Voice of America and has been interviewed by TIME and The Diplomat magazines.

Haider, who earned his B.A. in economics from the Robert E. Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his M.A. in public affairs from the same university, resides with his wife in Washington, DC and maintains strong links with his country of birth, Pakistan. 

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