Adil Rasheed

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Dr Adil Rasheed is Research Fellow (Selection Scale) and Coordinator of the Counter Terrorism Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Strategic Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA).

Author of the books Political Islam: Parallel Currents in West Asia and South Asia (2024), Countering the Radical Narrative (2020), and ISIS: Race to Armageddon (2015), he is currently working on a book titled Messianic Geopolitics: Threat to Global Security.

His research papers and monographs, namely Influence Operations: The Sharp Power of Non-Kinetic Subversion (2024), ‘Countering the Threat of Radicalisation: Theories, Programmes and Challenges’ (2016) as well as ‘Jihadist Radicalisation in India: Internal Challenges, External Threats’ (2017), Impact of Vedanta on Indian Strategic Culture (2021) are widely read in the Indian strategic community.

Dr. Rasheed joined MP-IDSA in August 2016. Earlier, he was Senior Research Fellow at the United Services Institution of India (USI). He was also Researcher at the UAE’s premier think tank The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) for eight years (2006-14). An Op-Ed editor in Dubai-based English daily Khaleej Times (200-05) and in Abu Dhabi-based Emirates News (1997-2000), he has interviewed many international leaders such as Bangladesh’s Chief Advisor and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamed, former US Secretary of State Leon Panetta, among many others.


Research Fellow

Publication

Countering the Threat of Radicalisation: Theories, Programmes and Challenges

In recent years, rising instances of home-grown terrorism, lone-wolf operations and growing polarisation within societies have upstaged the global military struggle against major transnational terrorist organisations. As the dissemination of radical ideas and related violence increases, over 40 governments around the world have decided to develop their own counter-radicalisation and de-radicalisation programmes, in keeping with their socio-political and cultural particularities.