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Aqil Shah is a U.S.-based political scientist and analyst currently teaching in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University and an M.Phil in International Development Studies from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to Princeton, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University and a Hewlett Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Dr. Shah has also held fellowships at the Henry L. Stimson Center, the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington, D.C.

He has worked for the International Crisis Group, the United Nations Development Program, the Friday Times and Dawn.

Dr. Shah has previously taught at Columbia University, the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Lahore University of Management Sciences. His commentary and research have been published in the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Democracy, Democratization and several edited volumes. He is the author of

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