Siddharth Mohandas is a National Security Fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and a doctoral candidate in Government at Harvard University. His research interests include U.S. intervention and nation-building efforts, and Asian security issues. He has worked as an adjunct staff member at the RAND Corporation, as an Associate Editor at Foreign Affairs magazine, and has interned as a speechwriter for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Siddharth has written for multiple publications, including Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, and The American Prospect. He holds an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University and an M. Phil with distinction from Cambridge University, both in international relations.