Sameer Lalwani
Biographic Data
| ID | 4134781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sameer Lalwani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sameer |
| FAMILY NAME | Lalwani |
| SIGNATURE | LALWANI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stimson Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7676-8863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India
In multiethnic societies, domestic minority groups are frequently associated with external adversaries. In such situations, external confrontations may potentially exacerbate internal ethnic conflict by increasing intolerance toward the domestic minority. Alternatively, they may result in rallying the public around a common superordinate national identity. We examine the case of India, which has a long-running rivalry with Muslim-majority Pakista…
What the India–Russia Defence Partnership Means for US Policy
Given India’s dependence on and trust in Russia, US attempts to deter India–Russia arms transactions and compel India to phase out Russian systems are unlikely to work
Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia
Research on public opinion and crisis behavior has focused largely on pressures felt by leaders who have initiated a crisis, not on leaders in target states responding to adversary provocation. Our survey experiment involving 1,823 respondents in Punjab, Pakistan, finds public support for escalating rather than de-escalating in response to such provocation. It shows how public pressures can encourage conflict even in instances where a leader has …
Pakistan in 2019
Relatively prudent foreign policy maneuvers stole the headlines in 2019, overshadowing Pakistan’s downward economic spiral and political decay. The Imran Khan government made the most of extra-regional strategic opportunities with the US and China while weathering a collapsing bilateral relationship with India. Officials struggled to arrest a mounting economic crisis. The state further accelerated the long-term corrosion of Pakistan’s political i…
Great Expectations
After India re-elected Narendra Modi as Prime Minister in May 2019 in a landslide victory, President Trump congratulated him, tweeting that “great things are in store for the US-India partnership w
Politics and Threat Perception
Analysts and policymakers agree that the Pakistani military has engaged in selective repression of and collusion with armed groups. Yet beyond this general observation, fine-grained theory and evidence do not exist to systematically explain patterns of military strategy across groups and over time. This paper provides a theoretical framework for explaining regime perceptions of armed groups and the strategies state security managers pursue toward…
Size Still Matters
The military effectiveness literature has largely dismissed the role of material preponderance in favor of strategic interaction theories. The study of counterinsurgency, in which incumbent victory is increasingly rare despite material superiority, has also turned to other strategic dynamics explanations like force employment, leadership, and insurgent/adversary attributes. Challenging these two trends, this paper contends that even in cases of c…
When Counterinsurgency Wins
For those seeking to understand how the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – the ‘A-team of terrorist groups’ – was dealt a catastrophic death, Ahmed S. Hashim’s work provides an excellent sta
Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia
Research on public opinion and crisis behavior has focused largely on pressures felt by leaders who have initiated a crisis, not on leaders in target states responding to adversary provocation. Our survey experiment involving 1,823 respondents in Punjab, Pakistan, finds public support for escalating rather than de-escalating in response to such provocation. It shows how public pressures can encourage conflict even in instances where a leader has …
Politics and Threat Perception
Analysts and policymakers agree that the Pakistani military has engaged in selective repression of and collusion with armed groups. Yet beyond this general observation, fine-grained theory and evidence do not exist to systematically explain patterns of military strategy across groups and over time. This paper provides a theoretical framework for explaining regime perceptions of armed groups and the strategies state security managers pursue toward…
Great Expectations
After India re-elected Narendra Modi as Prime Minister in May 2019 in a landslide victory, President Trump congratulated him, tweeting that “great things are in store for the US-India partnership w
What the India–Russia Defence Partnership Means for US Policy
Given India’s dependence on and trust in Russia, US attempts to deter India–Russia arms transactions and compel India to phase out Russian systems are unlikely to work
Pakistan in 2019
Relatively prudent foreign policy maneuvers stole the headlines in 2019, overshadowing Pakistan’s downward economic spiral and political decay. The Imran Khan government made the most of extra-regional strategic opportunities with the US and China while weathering a collapsing bilateral relationship with India. Officials struggled to arrest a mounting economic crisis. The state further accelerated the long-term corrosion of Pakistan’s political i…
Size Still Matters
The military effectiveness literature has largely dismissed the role of material preponderance in favor of strategic interaction theories. The study of counterinsurgency, in which incumbent victory is increasingly rare despite material superiority, has also turned to other strategic dynamics explanations like force employment, leadership, and insurgent/adversary attributes. Challenging these two trends, this paper contends that even in cases of c…
When Counterinsurgency Wins
For those seeking to understand how the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – the ‘A-team of terrorist groups’ – was dealt a catastrophic death, Ahmed S. Hashim’s work provides an excellent sta
Size Still Matters
The military effectiveness literature has largely dismissed the role of material preponderance in favor of strategic interaction theories. The study of counterinsurgency, in which incumbent victory is increasingly rare despite material superiority, has also turned to other strategic dynamics explanations like force employment, leadership, and insurgent/adversary attributes. Challenging these two trends, this paper contends that even in cases of c…
Politics and Threat Perception
Analysts and policymakers agree that the Pakistani military has engaged in selective repression of and collusion with armed groups. Yet beyond this general observation, fine-grained theory and evidence do not exist to systematically explain patterns of military strategy across groups and over time. This paper provides a theoretical framework for explaining regime perceptions of armed groups and the strategies state security managers pursue toward…
Great Expectations
After India re-elected Narendra Modi as Prime Minister in May 2019 in a landslide victory, President Trump congratulated him, tweeting that “great things are in store for the US-India partnership w
Pakistan in 2019
Relatively prudent foreign policy maneuvers stole the headlines in 2019, overshadowing Pakistan’s downward economic spiral and political decay. The Imran Khan government made the most of extra-regional strategic opportunities with the US and China while weathering a collapsing bilateral relationship with India. Officials struggled to arrest a mounting economic crisis. The state further accelerated the long-term corrosion of Pakistan’s political i…
What the India–Russia Defence Partnership Means for US Policy
Given India’s dependence on and trust in Russia, US attempts to deter India–Russia arms transactions and compel India to phase out Russian systems are unlikely to work
Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia
Research on public opinion and crisis behavior has focused largely on pressures felt by leaders who have initiated a crisis, not on leaders in target states responding to adversary provocation. Our survey experiment involving 1,823 respondents in Punjab, Pakistan, finds public support for escalating rather than de-escalating in response to such provocation. It shows how public pressures can encourage conflict even in instances where a leader has …
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India
In multiethnic societies, domestic minority groups are frequently associated with external adversaries. In such situations, external confrontations may potentially exacerbate internal ethnic conflict by increasing intolerance toward the domestic minority. Alternatively, they may result in rallying the public around a common superordinate national identity. We examine the case of India, which has a long-running rivalry with Muslim-majority Pakista…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works)