Associate Professor, Political Science & Director, Asian Studies

Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois

Areas of Expertise

International relations, international security, technology and politics, South Asian politics.

Biography

Dinshaw Mistry is associate professor of Political Science and director of Asian Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He was previously a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University.

Dinshaw Mistry specializes in international relations, security studies, technology and politics, and Asian security. He is author of Containing Missile Proliferation (University of Washington Press, 2003), a comprehensive study of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). His other publications include “Tempering Optimism about Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia” (Security Studies, 2008); “Assessing Iran’s ICBM Capabilities” (Arms Control Today, October 2007); “Diplomacy, Domestic Politics, and the US-India Nuclear Agreement” (Asian Survey, September 2006); “Negotiating Multilateral Instruments against Missile Proliferation” (International Negotiation, December 2005); “Nuclear Asia’s Challenges” (Current History, April 2005); “A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of India as an Emerging Power” (India Review, January 2004); “The Unrealized Promise of International Institutions: The Test Ban Treaty and India’s Nuclear Breakout” (Security Studies, Summer 2003); “Beyond the MTCR: Building a Comprehensive Regime to Contain Missile Proliferation” (International Security, Spring 2003); “Technological Containment: The MTCR and Missile Proliferation” (Security Studies, Spring 2002); “The Geostrategic Implications of India’s Space Program” (Asian Survey, November 2001); “Diplomacy, Sanctions, and the U.S. Nonproliferation Dialogue with India and Pakistan” (Asian Survey, September 1999); and “The Technology, Economics, and Politics of Missile Defense” (Northwestern Journal of International Affairs, Winter 1999).

Contact Information

Mailing Address

University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221

Phone

513-556-3317

Fax

513-556-2314

Email

dinshaw[DOT]mistry[AT]uc[DOT]edu