Haider Ali Hussein Mullick is a fellow at the Joint Special Operations University (JSOU), a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)and conducts research on American foreign policy toward South Asia and the Middle East. During his career, he has focused on American-Pakistani relations and broader issues of security; socio-economics; and the geopolitics of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and South Asia. He is the author of  book-length monograph: Pakistan’s Security Paradox: Countering and Fomenting Insurgencies.

In addition, Haider 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). 

His policy briefs/articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Yale Global, the 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.

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

He has also appeared as an analyst on CNN, Al Jazeera English Riz Khan Show, the Voice of America and has been interviewed by TIME magazine.

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 policy from the same university, also runs National Security Renegades, a blog on national security-related affairs.

Haider was born and raised in Islamabad, Pakistan. He currently resides with his wife in Washington, DC and maintains strong links with his home country.  

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