Status
Lecturer
Contact
fhkhan@nps.edu
Research Interests
South Asia Politics, Security, Nonproliferation and Arms Control |
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Biography
Brigadier General (retired) Feroz Khan has served with the Pakistani Army for 32 years. He served domestically and abroad with numerous assignments in the United States, Europe, and South Asia. He has experienced combat action and command on active fronts on the line of control in Siachin Glacier and Kashmir and served along the Pakistan–Afghanistan Border. He last held the post of Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs, within the Strategic Plans Division, Joint Services Headquarters. Among his academic degrees, General Khan holds an M.A. from the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
General Khan made key contributions in formulating and advocating Pakistan’s security policy on nuclear and conventional arms control and strategic stability in South Asia. He produced recommendations for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and represented Pakistan in several multilateral and bilateral arms control negotiations. He also taught as visiting faculty at the Department of the Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. He has many published articles, books chapters and papers and regularly participates in numerous security-related national and international conferences and seminars. He is currently writing a book on “Pakistan’s Nuclear Program and U.S. Policy.”
General Khan was a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. in 2001- 2002. In addition, he has held a series of fellowships at Stanford University’s Center for International Studies and Arms Control; the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.; the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Washington, D.C.; and at the Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratory, New Mexico. In 2003 he joined the Naval Postgraduate School as a Visiting Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs and Senior Researcher in Center for Contemporary Conflict. Since 2008, he has served as a Lecturer in the same department.
Recent Publications
- “Prospects for Indian and Pakistani Arms Control and Confidence-Building Measures,” Naval War College Review 63, No. 3 (Summer 2010), 105-121.
- “Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War in South Asia” in Henry Sokolski, ed. Pakistan’s Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risk (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute Publications Office, United States Army War College, December 2009).
- “Nuclear Security in Pakistan: Separating Myths from Reality,” Arms Control Today, July/August 2009.
- “Pakistan’s Perspective on Global Elimination of Nuclear Weapons” in Barry Blechman, ed. Unblocking the Road to Zero (Washington: Henry L Stimson Center, June 2009).
- “Pakistan: The Dilemma of Deterrence” with Peter R. Lavoy, in Muthiah Alagappa, ed., The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008).
- “Toward Cooperative Security: Prospects for Nonproliferation and Arms Control,” in Joseph F. Pilat, Atoms for Peace. A Future after Fifty Years? (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press & Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), 95-103.
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