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Christine Fair

Assistant Professor, Security Studies Program at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

About me

C. Christine Fair is a Georgetown Security Studies Program Assistant Professor, where she focuses on South Asian political and military affairs. Fair previously worked at the RAND Corporation, United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul, and at USIP’s Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. Fair has as authored, co-authored and co-edited several books, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Women in International Security, International Studies Association, American Political Science Association, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, serves on the editorial board numerous journals, and is a senior fellow with the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. Fair received her PhD and MA from the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War (Oxford University Press, 2014). Many of her other publications can be found at christinefair.net