[2] Miklian is known for his scholarship and commentary on the role of the private sector in conflict and fragile state settings and on South Asia politics.
[8][9] Miklian has published op-eds and essays in many media outlets, including Foreign Policy,[10] Harvard Business Review,[11] Washington Post,[12] Economic and Political Weekly,[13] and The New York Times.
[14] In 1970 the Great Bhola Cyclone killed 500,000 people in East Pakistan and set off a series of cataclysmic events that almost culminated in a nuclear war between the United States and USSR.
Scott Carney and Miklian tell the story of The Vortex through the eyes of cyclone survivors, two genocidal presidents (Richard Nixon and Yahya Khan), a soccer star turned soldier and mutineer Hafiz Uddin Ahmad, and American aid worker and a weatherman from Miami who tried to avert disaster.
The Vortex received largely favorable reviews in The Washington Post and NPR[15] for linking the effects of climate change to armed conflict.