Christine Fair is a senior political scientist with RAND in Arlington, VA. Prior to rejoining RAND in November 2007, she served as a political officer in Kabul with the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan. From 2004 to 2007, she was a senior research fellow with the United States Institute of Peace. Dr Fair specializes in South Asian political and military affairs including territorial and low-intensity conflict, internal security reform, political violence and terrorism, civil-military relations as the ties between education and militancy. Prior to joining USIP in April 2004, she was an associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation.
Her research has concentrated upon the security competition between India and Pakistan, Pakistan's internal security, and U.S. strategic relations with India and Pakistan as well as political Islam and militancy throughout Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
Recent books and reports include The Madrassah Challenge: Militancy and Religious Education in Pakistan (USIP, forthcoming 2008); Treading Softly: Counter Insurgency Operations on Sacred Space with co-edited with Sumit Ganguly (OUP, forthcoming 2008); Fortifying Pakistan The Role of U.S. Internal Security Assistance with Peter Chalk (USIP, 2006).She publishes widely in peer-reviewed journals and is the managing editor of India Review. For a full list of publications, see www.christinefair.net.
