@DebakD

Debak Das is a PhD student at the Department of Government at Cornell University. He completed his M.Phil in the Diplomacy and Disarmament Division of the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies – Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His dissertation was titled, “Technology, Strategy and Statecraft: India’s Tryst with Missile Defence”. He received the 2013 Mahbub-ul-Haq from the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, to co-author a monograph on “Nuclear Learning in South Asia”. Debak is primarily interested in nuclear and strategic decisionmaking in South Asia, BMD, nuclear weapons and missile proliferation, the role of science and technology in national security planning, and nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. He has formerly held research positions at Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation, and the Middle East Institute in New Delhi.