About the authors Dr. Moeed Yusuf is President/Vice Chancellor of Beacon­house National University, Pakistan’s first not-for-profit liberal arts institution, and a senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center. He previously served as Pakistan’s national security adviser, leading the country’s first National Secu­rity Policy and engaging in strategic dialogs worldwide. Before entering government service, Yusuf was Associate Vice President at the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Asia Center, and held fellowships at Boston University’s Pardee Center and Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center. He has advised and consulted for organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP), Asian Development Bank(ADB), and the World Bank. An experienced educator, Yusuf has taught at universities in Pakistan and the US, including Boston University, George Washington University, Lahore University of Management Sciences, and Quaid-e-Azam University. He has various publications to his name including his seminal work on crisis management, Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environ­ments . He holds an MA in International Relations and a PhD in Political Science from Boston University. Yusuf is part of FES’ North South Futures Forum network. Ejaz Haider has been a journalist specializing in foreign and security policy for two decades. He started his career at The Frontier Post, Lahore and currently writes for Dawn, Pakistan’s leading English-language newspaper. He has held several editorial positions over the years, in­cluding as the news editor of The Friday Times and exec­utive editor of The Daily Times. Haider is a regular com­mentator on national and foreign television channels, and has hosted talk shows on Dawn News and. He was a Ford scholar at the University of Illinois at Urba­na-Champaign(1997) and a visiting fellow at the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C(2002–2003). During his fellowships in the United States, Haider conducted extensive policy work and lectured at various universities and think tanks. His areas of interest include defense and foreign policy, nuclear strategy, theories and concepts of war, interna­tional relations, statecraft, literature, and satire.