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Untying the Kashmir Knot, World Policy Journal, Spring 2002

A Roadmap for Afghanistan, http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/kumar.htm Feb. 2002

Religious Radicalism and Minorities in South Asia, in Robert Wirsing, Sathu Limaye and Mohan (ed.), Religious Radicalism and Security in South Asia, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawaii, 2004

Settling Partition Conflicts: Key Elements, Key Actors,in Michel Seymour (ed.), The Future of the Nation State, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004

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Terrorism and the Limits to Regionalism in South Asia, in Gopal Singh and Ramesh K. Chauhan Eds. South Asia Today, (New Delhi: Anamika Publishers and Distributors, 2005).

From Central to Peripheral: The United Nations and the Recent Iraq Crisis in IDSA’s journal Strategic Analysis, Vol. 27 No. 4, October-December 2003, pp 577-602. Also at: http://www.idsa.in/publications/strategicanalyses/2003/oct/Tasneem%20Meenai.pdf

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Caste Conflict in Bihar: The Identity Perspective and Potential for Conflict Transformation, Journal of Conflict Management and Development, Vol.2, 2004

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Detention and Deportation in the Wake of 9/11, Footpaths, Vol. 3, No.4, Fall 2002, http://www.emu.edu/ctp/footpaths/vol3no4/page1.html