Nasir Mehmood

Nasir Mehmood is a visiting scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). He specializes in arms control and strategic stability dynamics in South Asia. His current research project examines the political-diplomatic and military-strategic effects of existing bilateral behavioral arms control measures on India-Pakistan relations.

Mehmood is an assistant professor at the Strategic Studies Department at National Defence University, Pakistan. He also served as an assistant director (academics) at the Foreign Service Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan. In 2021, he was a visiting international fellow at the James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies.

Mehmood is the author of Political Conflict and Arms Control: Pakistan-India Policy Analysis, 1988-2008, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2023. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution and development of arms control processes as an integral part of the India-Pakistan broader security dialogue, which took place from 1988 to 2008. It examines four different types of political conflicts, namely Jammu & Kashmir, hostile domestic politics, dissimilar military doctrines and China as a third party, and their individual and collective impact on the outcome of arms control negotiations during three rounds of the broader security dialogue (1988-1994, 1997-1999, and 2004-2008). In continuation, Mehmood also discerns a pattern of interaction between different types of political conflicts and arms control within and across three sub-cases of security dialogue.

Mehmood earned his PhD in Politics from the University of Reading, UK.