I work on the diplomatic and political history of relations between the United States, Great Britain, and the developing world in the twentieth century. My research has been funded by: the Arts and Humanities Research Council; the Mellon Foundation; the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford; the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies; and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston. In 2010, I was selected to participate in an International Research Seminar on Decolonization held in Washington, D.C, jointly sponsored by the American Historical Association's National History Center and the Library of Congress.My first book, The Cold War in South Asia, 1945-1965, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. It offers the first systematic analysis of Anglo-American interaction with India and Pakistan during their first two decades as independent sovereign states. Specifically, it examines the extension of American power into the Indian subcontinent following Washington's alliance with Pakistan in 1954, and the inevitable Soviet riposte that followed, and analyses how this process recast the geo-political map of South Asia in a fundamental and enduring fashion.Between October and December 2011, as Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's, Rothermere American Institute, I began to explore the interplay between US diplomacy and the American intelligence community within the context of the developing world. In the spring of 2013, I was awarded an Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship in North American Studies at the British Library. As an Eccles Centre Fellow I will be critically examining the historical roots of the interrelationship between US Intelligence activity and American diplomacy in South Asia, a nexus of the ongoing 'War on Terror'.In 2015, I undertook further work on the connections between intelligence and diplomacy as Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston.

I work on the diplomatic and political history of relations between the United States, Great Britain and the developing world in the latter half of the twentieth century. My publications have focused on aspects of transnational politics, economics, defence, intelligence and security and post-colonial culture.