Hassan Abbas (born 1969) is a Pakistani-American scholar and academic in the field of South Asian and Middle Eastern studies. His research focuses have been on security issues pertaining to governance, law enforcement and counterterrorism. Abbas worked in the governments of Benazir Bhutto (1994–1996) and Musharraf (1999–2001). He currently resides in the US.
Education Abbas received a MALD and PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; an LLM in International Law from the University of Nottingham School of Law (as a Britannia Chevenning Scholar); and a Masters in Political Science from the Government College, Lahore, Punjab University, Pakistan.
Academic career Abbas was a visiting scholar at the Islamic Legal Studies Program (2002–2003) and at the Negotiation Project (2003–2004) at Harvard Law School. From 2005–2009, Abbas was a research fellow and from 2009–2011, an adviser at the Belfer Centre for Science and International affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University."Hassan Abbas" Belfer centre, Harvard University. Accessed 19 April 2014. From 2009–2011, Abbas was also Quaid-i-Azam Chair professor at the South Asia Institute and School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University in New York."Hassan Abbas" Columbia Global Centers. Accessed 19 April 2014. In 2009, Abbas was the Bernard Schwartz fellow at the Asia Society in New York."Hassan Abbas." Asia Society. Accessed 19 April 2014. Currently, he is the chair of the Department of Regional and Analytical Studies at the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington DC;"Hassan Abbas" National Defense University. Accessed 19 April 2014. director of the South and Central Asia Program, NDU. In 2012, Abbas led the Independent Commission on Police Reforms in Pakistan, funded by the Asia Society."Stabilizing Pakistan through police reforms." Asia Society website.
In 2014, Abbas was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Selected bibliography The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan after the Americans Left (2023) The Prophet’s Heir: The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib (2021). The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier (2014).Review of The Taliban Revival: Robert Fox, "To Helmand and back", The World Today, Timothy Mack, Review of Middle East Studies, John Waterbury, Foreign Affairs, Peadar King, The Furrow, Michael Semple, Political Science Quarterly, Michael Kyle, Asian Affairs, Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence and Deviance (2018)Reviews of Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb: Owen Bennett-Jones, "One Screw Short", London Review of Books Ghazala Yasmin Jalil, Strategic Studies, Michael Kyle, Asian Affairs, Pakistan's Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America's War on Terror (2005).Reviews of Pakistan's drift into extremism: Noah Feldman, "Political Islam: Global Warning", New York Times, 6 February 2005 Farah Stockman, "An inside look at the changes in Pakistan", Boston Globe 17 November 2004 Farzana Shaikh, International Affairs, Pakistan 2020: A vision for building a better future."Pakistan 2020, vision building a better future." Asia society website. "Ali Ibne Abi Talib on leadership and good governance." (2012) Abbas H. "Ali Ibne Abi Talib on leadership and good governance." Outskirts Press, Incorporated, 2012. , 781478714231.
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