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Associate Professor of Political Science and Director, Asian Studies
1108 Crosley Tower
513-556-3317
dinshaw.mistry@uc.edu

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Education

PhD, University of Illinois, 1999 (Political Science).

MIA, Columbia University, 1994 (International Affairs).

BS, University of the South, 1992 (Physics, Political Science).

Professional Summary

Dinshaw Mistry is associate professor of Political Science and director of Asian Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He specializes in international relations, security studies, technology and politics, and Asian security. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, and was previously a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. Professor Mistry is author of Containing Missile Proliferation (University of Washington Press, 2003), a comprehensive study of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). He has written extensively on regional security in Asia and on nuclear, missile, space, and missile defense issues in journals such as International Security, Security Studies, and Asian Survey, and in the International Herald Tribune, New York Times, and Washington Post.
At the University of Cincinnati, he directs the program in Asian Studies , and also developed and administers the academic programs in security studies .

Peer Reviewed Publications

"Tempering Optimism about Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia," Security Studies 18:1 (2009).

“Diplomacy, Domestic Politics, and the U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement,” Asian Survey, vol. 46, no. 5 (September/October 2006), pp.675-698

“Negotiating Multilateral Instruments against Missile Proliferation,” International Negotiation, vol. 10, no. 3 (December 2005), with Mark Smith.

“A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of India as an Emerging Power,” India Review, vol. 3, no. 1 (January 2004), pp. 64-87.

“The Unrealized Promise of International Institutions: The Test Ban Treaty and India’s Nuclear Breakout,” Security Studies, vol. 12, no. 4 (Summer 2003), pp. 116-151.

“Beyond the MTCR: Building a Comprehensive Regime to Contain Ballistic Missile Proliferation,” International Security, vol. 27, no. 4 (Spring 2003), pp. 119-149.

Books

Containing Missile Proliferation: Strategic Technology, Security Regimes, and International Cooperation in Arms Control (University of Washington Press, 2003). [Link]

Other Publications

“The Complexity of Deterrence among New Nuclear States” in Complex Deterrence: Theory and Practice in a Complex Era (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

“Assessing Iran’s ICBM Capabilities,” Arms Control Today, vol. 37, no. 8 (October 2007).

“The Case for the U.S-India Nuclear Agreement,” World Policy Journal, vol. 23, no. 2 (Summer 2006), pp.11-19, with Sumit Ganguly.

“Ideas, Technology Policy, and India’s Helicopter, Combat Aircraft, and Lunar Orbiter Programs,” in Security and South Asia (Routledge, 2006), pp. 130-151.

“Nuclear Asia’s Challenges,” Current History, vol. 104, no. 681 (April 2005), pp.176-182.

“Military Technology, National Power, and Regional Security: The Strategic Significance of India’s Nuclear, Missile, Space, and Missile Defense Forces,” in Lowell Dittmer, ed., South Asia’s Nuclear Security Dilemma (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), pp. 49-72.