Rizwana Abbasi is an Associate Professor at the National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad. She is also a fellow at the Central European University, Austria, and a non-resident fellow of the Centre for International Strategic Studies, Islamabad. Previously, she was a fellow of EastWest Institute, New York. She also served as an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bahria University, Islamabad, and in the Department of International Relations at the National Defense University, Islamabad.
Dr Abbasi is a former Fellow of Stimson Center, USA. She was a postdoctoral research fellow and taught at the University of Leicester, UK, and earlier, was a research fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. She is also a graduate of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS), Hawaii, USA.
Dr Abbasi received her PhD from the University of Leicester, UK in International Relations and Political Science. She has authored several books including Changing Patterns of Warfare between India and Pakistan (Oxford: Routledge, 2023); Building a Road to Nuclear Disarmament: Bridging the Gap between Competing Approaches (Oxford: Routledge, 2021); Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia: New Technologies and Challenges to Sustainable Peace (Oxford: Routledge, 2019); Pakistan and the New Nuclear Taboo: Regional Deterrence and the International Arms Control Regime (Oxford, New York: Peter Lang, 2012).
