DR. ADIL RASHEED

Cogito Ergo Sum! I Think Therefore I Am

Research Fellow (Selection Scale) and Coordinator of the Counter Terrorism Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Strategic Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA).

Author of the books ‘Political Islam: Parallel Currents in West Asia and South Asia’ (2024), Countering the Radical Narrative (2020), and ISIS: Race to Armageddon (2015), I am currently working on a book titled Messianic Geopolitics: Threat to Global Security.

My research papers and monographs, namely Influence Operations: The Sharp Power of Non-Kinetic Subversion (2024), ‘Countering the Threat of Radicalisation: Theories, Programmes and Challenges’ (2016) as well as ‘Jihadist Radicalisation in India: Internal Challenges, External Threats’ (2017), Impact of Vedanta on Indian Strategic Culture (2021) are widely read in the Indian strategic community.

I joined MP-IDSA in August 2016. Earlier, I was Senior Research Fellow at the United Services Institution of India (USI). I was also Researcher at the UAE’s premier think tank The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) for eight years (2006-14). An Op-Ed editor in Dubai-based English daily Khaleej Times (200-05) and in Abu Dhabi-based Emirates News (1997-2000). I have interviewed many international leaders such as Bangladesh’s Chief Advisor and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamed, former US Secretary of State Leon Panetta, among many others.

I received my Ph.D. Degree in English Literature on the thesis: ‘Cinematic Techniques in the Novels of Christopher Isherwood,’ from JMI University, New Delhi in 1995. This was an interdisciplinary study on the way narrative techniques employed in films revolutionized literary techniques of narration in the 20th century, with special reference to the novels of Christopher Isherwood.