Fahd Humayun

Fahd Humayun is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, and currently a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). His research looks at the domestic sources of interstate conflict and crisis behavior, expanding on existing theories of democratic accountability and political representation as they pertain to domestic decision-making and crisis signaling. His book project, “Reputation Management & War” uses case studies of crisis decision-making in India, Israel, South Korea and the United States to explain why domestic politics compels some governments to commit to unanticipated national security pathways. He received his PhD in Political Science from Yale University in 2022. Prior to his PhD, he spent six years working on India-Pakistan Track II diplomacy at the Jinnah Institute, a public policy think-tank in Islamabad, Pakistan. He also holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BSc in International History from the London School of Economics.

Bio recorded January 3, 2025