Washington DC [US], October 23 (ANI): Paul Kapur was officially sworn in as the Assistant Secretary at the US State Department Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs on Thursday.
In a post on X, the Bureau welcomed him, stating, “Welcome to State SCA, Assistant Secretary Paul Kapur! This morning Dr. Kapur was officially sworn in as the Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.”
The Bureau oversees US foreign policy and relations with countries in South and Central Asia, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Kapur previously served as a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the US Naval Postgraduate School and was a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Between 2020 and 2021, he served on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, focusing on South and Central Asia, Indo-Pacific strategy, and US-India relations. He has also taught at Claremont McKenna College and was a visiting professor at Stanford University.
His research and teaching cover international security in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific, nuclear proliferation, deterrence, and Islamist militancy. Kapur is the author of Jihad as Grand Strategy: Islamist Militancy, National Security, and the Pakistani State (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia (Stanford University Press, 2007), and co-author of India, Pakistan and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia (Columbia University Press, 2010). His work has appeared in journals including International Security, Security Studies, Asian Survey, and Washington Quarterly.
Kapur also manages consultancy and engagement projects for the US Department of Defense. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and his BA from Amherst College. (ANI)
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