Selected Publications

Articles and Book Chapters

Joshua T. White, “A Cooperative Jihad? The Religious Logic of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and the Limits of Pan-Sunni Cooperation in Pakistan,” in Pakistan’s Enduring Challenges, eds. C. Christine Fair and Sarah Watson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).

Joshua T. White, “Bringing Pakistan In From the Cold,” review of Overcoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers, by Mark Fitzpatrick, Arms Control Today, June 2014. (link)

Joshua T. White and Niloufer Siddiqui, “Mawlana Mawdudi,” The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics, eds. John L. Esposito and Emad El-Din Shahin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). (link)

Joshua T. White and Shuja Ali Malik, “Governance Reforms in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas: The Long Road to Nowhere?” U.S. Institute of Peace, PeaceBrief no. 135, October 15, 2012. (link)

Joshua T. White, “Beyond Moderation: Dynamics of Political Islam in Pakistan,” Contemporary South Asia 20, no. 2 (June 2012). (link) Reprinted in Pakistan in National and Regional Change: State and Society in Flux, eds. C. Christine Fair and Shaun Gregory (London: Routledge, 2013).

Joshua T. White, “The Perils of Prediction,” in The Future of Pakistan, ed. Stephen P. Cohen (Brookings Institution Press, 2011). (link)

Joshua T. White, Pakistan’s Islamist Frontier: Islamic Politics and U.S. Policy in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier, Religion & Security Monograph Series, no. 1 (Arlington, VA: Center on Faith & International Affairs, 2008). (link)

Joshua T. White, “Vigilante Islamism in Pakistan: Religious Party Responses to the Lal Masjid Crisis,” Current Trends in Islamist Ideology 7 (Autumn 2008). (link)

Joshua T. White, “The Shape of Frontier Rule: Governance and Transition, from the Raj to the Modern Pakistani Frontier,” Asian Security 4, no. 3 (Autumn 2008). (link)

Peter Nasuti, Philip J. Reiner, and Joshua T. White, “A Strategy for Hearts and Minds in South and Central Asia,” Review of Faith & International Affairs 6, no. 3 (Autumn 2008).

Chris Seiple and Joshua T. White, “Uzbekistan and the Central Asian Crucible of Religion and Security,” in Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations, eds. Robert A. Seiple and Dennis R. Hoover (Latham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).

Other Commentary

Vikram J. Singh and Joshua T. White, “How the U.S. Can Reinvigorate India Defense Ties,” CNN GPS, June 5, 2014. (link)

Joshua T. White, “Islamabad’s (Charm) Offensive,” Foreign Policy, March 31, 2014. (link)

Joshua T. White, “Pakistan and the United States: Frenemies Forever?” Foreign Policy, March 27, 2014. (link)

Niloufer Siddiqui and Joshua T. White, “Pakistan–US Trust Deficit,” Dawn, June 19, 2011. (link)

Joshua T. White, “Pakistan’s Islamist Tightrope,” Foreign Policy, April 19, 2011. (link)

Joshua T. White, “AfPak Behind the Lines: Pakistan’s Political Scene,” Foreign Policy, September 3, 2010. (link)

Joshua T. White, “Pakistan: Between Secularism and Shariah,” SAISPHERE, Winter 2009.

Joshua T. White, “Pakistan’s New Frontier,” Wall Street Journal Asia,March 4, 2008. (link)