Scholar at the intersection of security, religious thought, and policy.

Dr. Hassan Abbas is Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University in Washington, D.C. He also serves as a Senior Advisor and Scholar at the Project on Shi'ism and Global Affairs, Harvard Divinity School, and has held research fellowships at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

Previously, Dr. Abbas held the endowed Quaid-i-Azam Chair Professorship at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) — continuing the distinguished intellectual heritage of predecessors Prof. Hasan Askari Rizvi and Dr. Saeed Shafqat in advancing South Asian democratic governance and constitutional studies in the Ivy League. He also served as Professor and Department Chair at the National Defense University's College of International Security Affairs (CISA).

He received his Ph.D. and MALD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and an LL.M. in International Law from the University of Nottingham, specializing in human rights and Islamic jurisprudence.

Dr. Abbas is the author of four acclaimed volumes published by Yale University Press and Oxford University Press, alongside his forthcoming monograph The Prophet's Daughter (Yale University Press).