Burzine has been a consultant and external auditor to the U.S. National Intelligence Council; Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO); Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), UK; Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), UK; Greater Manchester Police Counterterrorism Unit; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), UK; and Ministry of Defence Languages Examination Board (MODLEB).
He obtained his Bachelor's and Master's in International Relations from the College of William & Mary, VA, and Boston University, MA respectively. His thesis examined the evolution of the office of the Supreme Leader (velayat-e faqih) in Shi'i political thought and Khomeinism.
Besides French, German, Italian, Persian and Russian, his reading and research skills of the SAARC sphere incorporate Urdu, Pashto, Balochi, Kashmiri, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali; and Indo-Iranian dialectology, ethnography and historical geography of the Irano-Pak, Sino-Pak and Af-Pak borders (Balochistan, Trans-Karakoram Tract, Gilgit-Baltistan/Northern Areas, NWFP/Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas/FATA)
Burzine Waghmar (RUSI) analyses G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting & Russia's new foreign policy 'concept'
Burzine Waghmar, Inaugural Visiting India Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), London analyses G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, Nagano, 16-18 April ...
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As India prepares to host this year’s summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, what is the outlook for its relationship with Russia, China and other members of the grouping?
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