Happymon Jacob is Founder and Director of the Council for Strategic and Defense Research and editor of India’s World magazine. He is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Shiv Nadar University (SNU), Delhi NCR. Prior to joining SNU, he served on the faculty of Jawaharlal Nehru University for 17 years. Dr. Jacob is the author of Line on Fire: Ceasefire Violations and India-Pakistan Escalation Dynamics (OUP, 2019) and Line of Control: Traveling with the Indian and Pakistani Armies (Penguin Viking, 2018). He is a regular columnist for Hindustan Times and is committed to bridging the gap between policy and scholarship.
Expertise: South Asia, Nuclear Arms Control