Joshua White
Joshua T. White is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Engagement's Center on Faith & International Affairs, and a Ph.D. candidate at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington. His research focuses on Islamic politics, governance, and political stability in South Asia. He has been with the Institute since 2001, spent nearly a year living in Peshawar, Pakistan in 2005/6, and returned to Pakistan in the summers of 2007 and 2008 as a Visiting Research Associate at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He has presented his findings in numerous academic and policy fora; has testified before the U.S. Congress; has been interviewed on Al Jazeera, BBC, Voice of America, and Geo News; has participated in several high-level U.S.-Pakistan Track II strategic dialogues; and has served on U.S.-sponsored election observer delegations to both Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Joshua graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Williams College with a double major in History and Mathematics. He received his M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS, where he concentrated in South Asia Studies and International Economics. Upon graduating from SAIS, he received the 2008 Christian A. Herter Award, the school's highest academic honor. He has co-authored a chapter in Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations; and has written for The Nation (Pakistan), The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Christianity Today, The Wall Street Journal Asia, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, and the journal Asian Security. He has also been active in promoting Christian-Muslim dialogue, and participates in interfaith events in both the United States and Pakistan.
His recent publications include:
- "Applying Counterinsurgency Principles in Pakistan's Frontier" The Brookings Institution, Counterinsurgency and Pakistan Paper Series, No. 2, June 2009.
- "Afghanistan and Pakistan: Understanding a Complex Threat Environment," Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, March 4, 2009.
- Pakistan's Islamist Frontier: Islamic Politics and U.S. Policy in Pakistan's North-West Frontier, Religion & Security Monograph Series, no. 1 (Arlington, VA: Center on Faith & International Affairs, 2008).
- "Vigilante Islamism in Pakistan: Religious Party Responses to the Lal Masjid Crisis," Current Trends in Islamist Ideology 7 (Autumn 2008).
- "The Shape of Frontier Rule: Governance and Transition, from the Raj to the Modern Pakistani Frontier," Asian Security 4, no. 3 (September 2008).
- "Pakistan's New Frontier," Wall Street Journal Asia, March 4, 2008.