Sadia Tasleem

Tasleem is a lecturer in the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad. She has been a senior research scholar at the Institute for Strategic Studies, Research, and Analysis at Pakistan's National Defence University; a research associate at International Islamic University; and a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the National University of Modern Languages. She received the 2006 Research Award from the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies.

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Articles by Sadia Tasleem

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
18 July 2013
Americas

Nuclear deterrence and terrorism: Implications for global security

Evgeny BuzhinskySadia TasleemManpreet Sethi

Though US nuclear policy seeks "to reduce the salience of nuclear weapons," it doesn't exclude their use against states that help terrorists obtain weapons of mass destruction.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
11 July 2013
Asia

Flailing, but not failing

Sadia Tasleem

In Round Two, my colleague Manpreet Sethi correctly emphasized that terrorist penetration of sensitive military sites is a matter of real concern. But she focused narrowly on Pakistan's vulnerabilities to terrorism, and this oversimplifies the issue.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
20 June 2013
Asia

Silver linings, ominous clouds

Sadia Tasleem

In her first Roundtable essay my colleague Manpreet Sethi analyzed the tactical and strategic levels of US policy on nuclear proliferation and terrorism and concluded that, in principle, the United States is on the right track.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
5 June 2013
Asia

Deterring nuclear terrorism: Reflections from Islamabad

Sadia Tasleem