Jaideep Saikia is a terrorism and security analyst and an expert on North East India. Saikia has published over two dozen academic papers in various national and international security journals and has written or edited eight books on security, counter-terrorism and strategy, including Terror Sans Frontiers: Islamist Militancy in North East India and Terrorism: Patterns of Internationalization. An alumni of the Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA, the last of which was as a Ford Fellow, Saikia has also served the Governments of India and Assam in security advisorial capacities and was a member of the Indian delegation for Track II Dialogue with Bangladesh in 2007.