Mathematical and Computational Modelling (2023-present)
See publications on Tarqeq Research website.
Asian Security and Foreign Affairs (2016-present)
- “Faltering Friends: U.S.-India Military Cooperation in the Twenty First Century” in Sumit Ganguly and M. Chris Mason (eds.) “The Future of U.S.-India Security Cooperation” (Manchester University Press, 2021) [book].
- The Twin Peaks Crisis, case study for Strategic Learning, Stimson Center, Washington, DC, October 2020.
- S(c)helling in Kashmir: Bargaining under the nuclear shadow, The Washington Quarterly 42, no. 2 (2019): 163-186 [pdf, link].
- Narendra Modi’s defence policy: Ideation, management, and capabilities in Harsh V. Pant (ed.) “India’s Evolving National Security Agenda: Modi and Beyond” (New Delhi: Konark Publishers, 2019) [book].
- The BJP and Indian grand strategy [with Rahul Sagar] in Milan Vaishnav (ed.) “The BJP in Power: Indian Democracy and Religious Nationalism” (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2019) [report].
- The sobering arithmetic of a two-front war, Observer Research Foundation Special Report No. 67, July 2018. Shorter version in Harsh V. Pant (ed.) “China Ascendant: Its Rise and Implications” (Observer Research Foundation/HarperCollins, 2019), 86-96 [book].
- Beyond JCPOA: Examining the consequences of US withdrawal [co-edited with Harsh V. Pant], Observer Research Foundation Special Report No. 63, July 2018.
- Pakistan’s sea-based nuclear deterrent and its asymmetric escalation strategy, Observer Research Foundation Issue Brief No. 240, May 2018.
- Is India ready for the Indo-Pacific? [with Harsh V. Pant], The Washington Quarterly 41, no. 2 (2018): 47-61 [pdf, link].
- Reclaiming the Indo-Pacific: A political-military strategy for quad 2.0, Observer Research Foundation Occasional Paper No. 147, March 2018 [pdf, link].
- Space crises in a multipolar world: lessons from a simulation exercise [with Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan], Observer Research Foundation Special Report No. 58, February 2018.
- India’s joint doctrine: A lost opportunity [with Shashank Joshi], Observer Research Foundation Occasional Paper No. 139, January 2018 [pdf, link].
- Stability, Sustainability, and Crises: The Role Tabletop Exercises in Space Crisis Dynamics Can Play in Ensuring the Long-Term Sustainability of Space [with Victoria A. Samson, Brian Weeden and Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan], Paper presented at the 68th International Astronautical Congress, Adelaide, September 2017 [pdf].
- Beyond India’s quest for a neoliberal order, The Washington Quarterly 40, no. 2 (2017): 145-161 [pdf, link].
- Political and economic governance [with Samir Saran] in “Realising the BRICS Long-Term Goals: Road-Maps and Pathways: A Proposal by the BRICS Think-Tank Council,” August 2017 [book].
- The four faces of 21-st century Asian geopolitics, Observer Research Foundation Issue Brief No. 178, May 2017.
- The strategist: how Abu Mus’ab al-Suri inspired ISIS, Observer Research Foundation Occasional Paper No. 96, August 2016 [pdf, link].
- Games Pakistanis play, Observer Research Foundation Occasional Paper No. 91, May 2016 [pdf, link].
Geoeconomics, Economic Policy, and Finance (2013-2017)
- Contributor to: Cosmina Amariei, et al., Improving the Investor Base for Local Currency Bond Markets in China, India and Indonesia, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, August 2017.
- The new economy of climate change, Observer Research Foundation Special Report No. 12, April 2016.
- A geoeconomic strategy for the new normal, Observer Research Foundation Occasional Paper No. 89, February 2016 [pdf, link].
- Will Xi adopt Keynes? Post-2015 military spending and economic growth in China, Observer Research Foundation Occasional Paper No. 85, January 2016 [pdf, link].
- Navigating the changing geoeconomic landscape [with Prashant Kumar], Observer Research Foundation Special Report No. 8, January 2016.
- Emerging from debt, creating jobs: Lessons from Greece, JustJobs Network, July 2015.
- Is Australia safe from the dark side of high frequency trading?, Tata Consultancy Services White Paper Series, June 2013.
- Modelling systemic risks in financial markets [SSRN]. 9th Global TACTiCS – Tata Consultancy Services Technical Architects’ Conference, 2013.
Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, and Complexity Science (2003-2012)
- Ranks of gauge groups and an NP-complete problem on the Landscape [arXiv:1212.3912].
- Dimension, divergence and desingularization [arXiv:1209.1257].
- Motives: an introductory survey for physicists [with an appendix by Matilde Marcolli], Contemporary Mathematics 539, 377- 415, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2011 [pdf, link].
- Turing’s Landscape: Decidability, computability and complexity in string theory [arXiv:0909.1869].
- Supermanifolds from Feynman graphs [with Matilde Marcolli], Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 41:315402, 2008 [pdf, link].
- C*-algebra approach to quantum SU(2) groups [pdf]. Master of Science Thesis, University of Connecticut, 2005.
- A dynamical similarity approach to the foundations of complexity and coordination in multiscale systems [arXiv:q-bio/0403026]. University Scholar Thesis, University of Connecticut, 2003.