She recently published the book Warlords, Strongman Governors and State Building in Afghanistan (Cambridge, 2014). Her current work on Afghanistan builds on her first book with a study of palace politics during the Karzai presidency. She also has two projects underway on the Syrian civil war related to Western engagement with the opposition and rebel governance. She is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mukhopadhyay holds adoctorate from Tufts University's Fletcher School.