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Reshmi Kazi

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Archive data: Person was Associate Fellow at IDSA

Joined IDSA
September 2007
Expertise
India’s nuclear weapon policy, nuclear non-proliferation studies, nuclear security, nuclear terrorism and global nuclear disarmament.  Also follow issues related to bio-terrorism and chemical terrorism and have written and published on these issues.
Education
Doctorate Degree from the Disarmament Division, Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Current Project
Assessing the Standards of Nuclear Security: A Critical Evaluation
Area of Specialization
Doctoral thesis is on Evolution of India’s Nuclear Doctrine: A Study of Political, Economic and Technological Dimensions. Earlier worked as a Research Fellow in the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi. During this period she worked on a project titled Weapons of Mass Destruction in South Asia, which was funded by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). In IDSA published a monograph titled “Nuclear Terrorism: The New Terror of the 21st Century”
Additionally, research agenda includes the following

issues relating to nuclear testing and nuclear non-proliferation issues particularly with reference to the NPT Review Conferences
published and made presentations including a paper – Nuclear Terrorism and UN Resolution 1540: A South Asian Perspective at the Conference on “Resolution 1540: At a Crossroads” held in the UN Headquarters in New York in October 2009
been part of the IDSA Working Group on the Seventh Review Conference on Biological Weapons Convention held in Geneva in December 2011
Completed a course on combating weapons of mass destruction in the Near East South Asia Centre, Washington in October 2013
Alumni from the National Defence University, Washington, DC
Write regularly for Stimson Center at the Generation Why website as part of Track II diplomacy between India and Pakistan
Currently a Visiting Fellow for the South Asia programme in the Stimson Center, Washington DC
Aim is to research and publish on critical areas pertaining to nuclear issues that can contribute to future policy making
Select Publications
“India’s Pursuit of Nuclear Disarmament” completed and accepted project chapter under ICSSR Project: Nuclearisation of South Asia: Implications for India’s National Security, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Global Centre of Nuclear Excellence: India’s Nuclear Security Provider, Defence and Diplomacy Journal, Vol. 5 no. 2, April-July 2016
The Roadmap for India’s Nuclear Security, Strategic Analysis, Volume 40, Issue 5, September 2016
“Islamic State and the Threat of Chemical Weapons” in SD Muni and Vivek Chadha (eds.), Asian Strategic Review 2016: Terrorism Emerging Trends (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, February 2016).
“Nuclear Security in Asia: Problems and Challenges”, Strategic Analyses, Vol 39, No 4, (2015), pp. 378-401
“Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership: India’s Gift Basket of Nuclear Security”, in SD Muni and Vivek Chadha (eds.), Asian Strategic Review 2015: India as a Security Provider(New Delhi: Pentagon Press, February 2015). Refereed, ISBN: 978-81-8274-825-5
India, the NSG, and the Chinese Impasse, E-International Relations, July 20 2016
Why India Should Continue to Push For NSG Membership, Huffington Post, June 28, 2016
China Remains a Proliferation Concern in the Indian Subcontinent,” IDSA Comment, April 22, 2016
“India is a de facto member of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty”, IDSA ISSUE BRIEF, December 24 2014.
“Ebola Threat: Global Challenge and India’s Preparedness”, CBW Magazine, Winter, July-December 2014.
“Nuclear Terrorism: The New Terror of the 21st Century”, IDSA Monograph Series No. 27, 2013.
“The Process of Negotiation of the Nuclear Deal/123 Agreement (India),” in PR Chari (ed.), Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Seeking Synergy in Bilateralism (New Delhi: Routledge, 2012), Revised edition.
“Tradition, the enemy of disarmament,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Development and Disarmament Roundtable, Women and nuclear weapons policy, May 16, 2014
India’s Nuclear Doctrine: A Study of its Tenets, Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, Vol 9, No. 1, Jan – Mar 2014.
“India and the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit”, E-International Relations, March 24 2014
“India and Nuclear Testing,” Strategic Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 5, September 2009, pages 629 – 633
Other Publications

Associate Fellow
Email:-reshmikazi[at]gmail[dot]com
Phone:-+91 11 2671 7983

Publication

Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Thinking and the Pakistani Connection

Riyadh anticipates that in the long run a nuclear Iran will be challenging Saudi’s proxy conflicts with Iran in states like Palestine, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria. Amidst such concerns, Riyadh’s rejection of a UN Security Council seat in October 2013 followed by the revelation of the BBC news about possible nuclear weapons cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in November 2013 has raised questions whether Riyadh aspires to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

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Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out by Pervez Hoodbhoy (ed.)

Eminent nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy and his co-authors in the seminal volume Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out have defied the age-old perspective that nuclear weapons are the ultimate armaments of security. While courting controversy, the authors have presented nuclear issues considered taboo and yet critical. This is a bold attempt by a group of eminent scientists who ‘reject nuclear patriotism’ (p. xxii) and have delved into issues of ‘nuclear weapons, war, strategy and politics’ (p.

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India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia by Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur Columbia University Press, New York, 2010, 152 pp., Rs 325, ISBN 0-2311-4374-5

India, Pakistan and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia is a strategic debate between the optimists and pessimists on whether the nuclearisation of South Asia has stabilised the subcontinent or whether proliferation has rendered it more dangerous. Authored by Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, the book examines the question as to whether the decision to exercise the nuclear option by India and Pakistan was a prudent one: Did India's nuclear capability accord it a great power status? Did the Pokhran II tests of May 1998 make India more secure?

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Efficacy of Nuclear Forensics

The danger of nuclear terrorism and ways to thwart it, tackle it and manage it in the event of an attack is increasingly gaining the attention of nuclear analysts all over the world. There is rising awareness among nuclear experts to develop mechanisms to prevent, deter and deal with the threat of nuclear terrorism. Nuclear specialists are seeking to develop and improve the science of nuclear forensics so as to provide faster analysis during a crisis.

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