Hasan T. Alhasan

Dr Hasan Alhasan is a Senior Fellow for Middle East Policy at the IISS. He has over a decade of experience as a scholar and practitioner of foreign policy in the Gulf region. He specialises in the Arab Gulf states’ grand strategies, economic statecraft, and relations with the Asian powers. Prior to joining IISS in 2019, Hasan served on HRH the Crown Prince of Bahrain’s staff as a senior analyst on foreign policy and national security for five years. Hasan is regularly consulted by governments, private corporations, and the media on strategic affairs in the Gulf and Middle East region. His latest project at IISS, entitled Gulf Bailout Diplomacy: Aid as Economic Statecraft in a Turbulent Region, is a groundbreaking study on the politics of Gulf rescue lending in the MENA region. He is the co-editor of India and the Gulf: Theoretical Perspectives and Policy Shifts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). Hasan earned a PhD in international relations from the India Institute at King’s College London and degrees in international political economy, finance, and Middle Eastern studies from the London School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris. He was selected for the Aitchison Public Service Fellowship in Government at Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC in 2010. He is a 2007 recipient of the Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program which is awarded annually to Bahrain’s top ten students. He speaks Arabic, English, and French and is a student of Hindi.

As an adjunct faculty member at the Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa Academy for Diplomatic Studies, I convene the 'Geopolitics' module for incoming diplomats as part of the academy's Junior Diplomats Programme.

Seminar convenor on module entitled 'Conflict & Diplomacy' (4SSW1008) at KCL's War Studies department.

Specialised in foreign policy and national security.

Chair of Middle Eastern Studies

Democratic Constraint and Foreign Policymaking in India: A Conditional Poliheuristic Model of India’s Foreign Policy Decisions Towards the Gulf Region (1990-2006)