Dr Ahmad Faruqui Dr. Faruqui is a defense analyst and energy economist based in the San Francisco Bay Area

Dr. Faruqui is a defense analyst based in San Francisco. He is a frequent contributor to Dawn, Pakistan's leading English newspaper, and the RUSI Journal. His books include Musharraf's Pakistan, Bush's America and the Middle East (Vanguard Books, 2008), Pakistan: Unresolved Issues of State & Society, co-edited with Farooq Hasnat (Vanguard Books, 2008) and Rethinking the National Security of Pakistan (Ashgate Publishing, 2003).

His research papers include: Fraught with Uncertainty: Pakistan's Third Democratic Transition, Brief Number Brief 31, Pakistan Security Research Unit, University of Bradford, 7 May 2008; "Broadening American-Pakistani Ties," RUSI Journal, February 2005; "Saddam Hussein as Military Commander," Asian Defence and Diplomacy, June 2004; "First three years of President Musharraf," Al-Siyasa, Fall 2002; "Is the USA fighting terrorism with the wrong weapons?," Security Dialogue, March 2003; "Pakistan: The Political Economy of Militarism," Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, Volume 2, Number 2, Summer 2002; "South Asia's Enduring Conflict," Asian Defence and Diplomacy, March 2002; "General Musharraf's Management of Pakistan's National Security," RUSI Journal, February 2002; "Recidivist Militarism in Pakistan," Asian Affairs (London), October 2001; "Waiting for America: the continuing predicament of Pakistan," Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, Volume 1, Number 3, 2001; "Pakistan in the eye of the cyclone," Asian Affairs (Hong Kong), Volume 16, 2001; "The complex dynamics of Sino-Pakistan ties," IPRI Journal (Islamabad), Summer 2001; "Scenarios of Pakistan's long-term security environment," Defence Journal (Karachi), August 2001; "Beyond Strategic Myopia in South Asia," Strategic Review, Winter 2001; "Failure in Command: Lessons from Pakistan's Indian Wars," Defense Analysis, Volume 17, Number 1, 2001; "The Fallacy of Nuclear Deterrence," Asia Pacific Military Balance, 2000/2001; and "Pakistan's Strategic Myopia," RUSI Journal, April 2000.

He has contributed op-ed pieces on national security issues to several newspapers including Daily Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and The San Jose Mercury News.

He holds B. A. and M. A. degrees in economics, First Class First, from the University of Karachi, where he was awarded the Rashid Minhas (Shaheed) Gold Medal, and a Ph. D. in economics from the University of California, Davis, where he served as a Regents Fellow. He has taught economics at the University of California - Davis, San Jose State University, and Karachi University. He is a member of Economists for Peace and Security, Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club.