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Ashley J. Tellils is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Woshinigton, D.C. He is also a senior consulting fellow for South Asia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. Before his current appointment at the Carnegie, he was commissioned into the Foreign Service with the US Department of State and served as senior adviser to the US ambassador to India. He has also briefly served on the National Security Council staff as special assistant to the president and senior director for strategic planning and Southwest Asia. Prior to his government service, he spent eight years with the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, as a senior policy analyst and as a professor of policy analysis at the RAND Graduate School. Tellis’s research interests focus on international relations theory, military strategy and proliferation issues, South Asian politics, and United State – Asia security relations. He has written two books: India’s Emerging Nuclear Posture (RAND, 2001) and Interpreting China’s Grand Strategy: Past, Present, and Future (coauthored with Michael Swaine, RAND, 2000). He has published scholarly articles in several edited volumes and journals, including the Journal of Strategic Studies, Asian Survey, Orbis, comparative Strategy, the Naval War College Review, and Security Studies.