Commentaries

• Central Asia Among Giants: Taking a Leaf from ASEAN

  31 May, 2023

• Terrorism in Europe: A Very Different Kind of Threat

  15 July, 2022

• End of Al Qaeda Era?

  03 December, 2020

• Incels and Terrorism: Sexual Deprivation As Security Threat

  06 October, 2020

• ISIS in the Maldives?

  03 April, 2020

• Responding to Streatham: Managing Low-Tech Terrorist Threat

  10 February, 2020

Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 15 Issue 02

  13 March, 2023

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 14 Issue 03

  14 June, 2022

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 13 Issue 04

  13 September, 2021

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 13 Issue 02

  23 March, 2021

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 13 Issue 01

  04 January, 2021

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 12 Issue 03

  23 April, 2020

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 12 Issue 02

  27 March, 2020

Authored Books

• Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire (with Alexandros Petersen). UK: Oxford University Press, 2022

Journal Articles

• “Paving the Digital Silk Road with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation” (with Niva Yau) in Paving the Digital Silk Road with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, 2022
• “A View from the CT Foxhole: Gilles de Kerchove, European Union (EU) Counter-Terrorism Coordinator” in CTC Sentinel, Vol. 13, No. 8, 2020
• “In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba” in RUSI Journal, Vol 165, No. 3, 2020, pp 98-100
• “Abdullah al-Faisal’s Global Jihad” in Lawfare, 2020
• “A View from the CT Foxhole: Jonathan Evans, Former Director General, MI5” in CTC Sentinel, Vol 13, No. 3, 2020

Op-Eds

• “China still reluctant to use its power and influence in Eurasia, despite crises in Ukraine and Afghanistan”, South China Morning Post, 19 January 2023
• “2023 outlook: Central Asia is not out of the woods yet”, Nikkei Asia Review, 29 December 2022
• “Downgrade counter-terrorism efforts at your peril”, Financial Times, 21 December 2022
• “Why Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan’s hopes of using China as a hedge against Russia could be doomed”, South China Morning Post, 10 December 2022
• “The Evolving Terror Threat in the UK”, RUSI, 6 December 2022
• “Did al-Qaeda Die with Ayman al-Zawahiri?” (with Kabir Taneja), Lawfare, 4 December 2022
• “Inheriting the Storm: Beijing’s Difficult New Relationship with Kabul”, The Diplomat, 1 December 2022
• “China won’t be filling the void left by the US in Afghanistan any time soon”, South China Morning Post, 18 November 2022
• “Russian proxies seize the advantage in Africa’s Islamist insurgencies”, Financial Times, 3 November 2022
• “Afghanistan: The new geopolitical arena for China and India”, LKY School Center for Globalization, 29 September 2022
• “China’s growing clout in Central Asia”, The Straits Times, 20 September 2022
• “Why Xi Jinping Chose Central Asia for his first post-COVID-19 trip”, Foreign Policy, 16 September 2022
• “China and Russia to showcase alternative world order at SCO Summit”, Nikkei Asia Review, 12 September 2022
• “Terrorism Fused with great power conflict may be the west’s next challenge”, Financial Times, 21 August 2022
• “Afghanistan shows the limits of China’s Belt and Road”, Nikkei Asia Review, 19 August 2022
• “China in Afghanistan: The Year of Moving Gradually”, ISPI, 11 August 2022
• “China is doomed to play a significant role in Afghanistan” (with Alexandros Petersen), Foreign Policy, 31 July 2022
• “Jihadism in the United Kingdom”, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 22 July 2022
• “Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism in the UK: How Concerned Should We Be?”, RUSI, 21 July 2022
• “Trouble Brews in Central Asia”, The Straits Times, 15 July 2022
• “The Perils of ignoring Eurasian instability”, Nikkei Asia Review, 9 July 2022
• “The Rising Tension Between China and Russia” (with Alexandros Petersen), Prospect, 24 June 2022
• “Karachi terror attack strains Pakistan’s ties with China”, Nikkei Asia Review, 3 May 2022
• “China wants its investments in Afghanistan to be safer than in Pakistan” (with Ajmal Waziri), Foreign Policy, 3 May 2022
• “China’s Current security approaches and interests in Afghanistan”, US China Economic and Security Review Commission, 1 May 2022
• “Living Dangerously in Russia’s backyard”, The Straits Times, 30 April 2022
• “An MP’s Murder: The Failure of the Prevent Programme?”, RUSI, 29 April 2022
• “How Pakistan’s new prime minister completes a favorable picture for China in the region”, South China Morning Post, 19 April 2022
• “China’s transport links with Central Asia in the spotlight”, Splash, 18 April 2022
• “Ukraine war: how the West’s focus on China’s ties with Russia misses the bigger geopolitical picture”, South China Morning Post, 7 April 2022
• “Western powers should exploit Central Asia’s unease over Ukraine war”, Nikkei Asia Review, 6 April 2022
• “Eurasia in turmoil: how China’s passivity foments the chaos”, South China Morning Post, 13 March 2022
• “Terrorism and the Mind”, BBC, 7 March 2022
• “Central Asia braces for economic catastrophe”, Nikkei Asia Review, 7 March 2022
• “China’s Soft Shoe on Ukraine”, RUSI, 3 March 2022
• “Encouraging Britons to Fight in Ukraine is hypocritical”, The Times, 1 March 2022
• “The Evolving Terrorism Threat to Europe”, Current History, 1 March 2022
• “Western intelligence was mocked after Iraq. With Ukraine, it has redeemed itself”, The Telegraph, 24 February 2022
• “Strange though it sounds, America may come to regret killing the leader of ISIS”, The Telegraph, 4 February 2022
• “China’s Kazakh Concerns”, The Straits Times, 15 January 2022
• “Why China won’t lose sleep over Russian troops in Kazakhstan”, South China Morning Post, 12 January 2022
• “Kazakhstan in crisis: Its About the country, not big power politics”, RUSI, 6 January 2022
• “Terrorism is a War the Taliban Cannot Win”, The Straits Times, 13 November 2021
• “Shape-shifting terrorism: The new challenge” (with Shashi Jayakumar), The Straits Times, 9 September 2021
• “Jihadis Will Remain A Threat Under The Taliban Government”, Financial Times, 5 September 2021
• “We Might Be Done With Jihadis But They Are Not Done With Us”, Financial Times , 11 July 2021
• “Reasons for the rise and rise of QAnon”, The Straits Times, 2 September 2020
• “Why China is becoming the bogeyman in its border lands”, South China Morning Post, 2 September 2020
• “Fifteen years on from 7/7, terrorism has changed but the jihadist threat persists”, Prospect, 7 July 2020
• “From Fringe to Mainstream: The Extreme Rightwing in Europe” (with Kyler Ong), ORF, 1 July 2020
• “Beware the spirit of the Wolf Warrior”, The Straits Times, 23 June 2020
• “Drifting definitions of terrorism endanger us all”, Financial Times, 14 June 2020
• “Jihadactivist”, GNET, 29 April 2020
• “COVID-19 is fuel to the flames of security threats”, The Straits Times, 27 April 2020
• “Beware of terrorists offering COVID-19 aid” (with Kabir Taneja), Observer Research Foundation, 17 April 2020
• “Don’t Lose Sight of the Enduring Global Terrorist Threat”, RUSI Commentary, 30 March 2020
• “The Singapore Model: A New Deradicalisation Approach for the UK?” (with Shashi Jayakumar), RUSI Newsbrief, 13 March 2020
• “Running amok in an age of meaningless terror”, Straits Times, 10 March 2020
• “Seen from UK, Kashmir fits the global roster of causes for Jihadists”, Observer Research Foundation, 29 February 2020
• “Abdullah el Faisal’s Persistent Screed”, GNET, 28 February 2020
• “Tougher Sentencing Won’t Stop Terrorism”, Foreign Policy, 10 February 2020. Republished in Tougher Sentencing Won’t Stop Terrorism