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Farhan
Hanif Siddiqi (ASSISTANT
PROFESSOR)
Department
of International Relations
University of Karachi
Karachi-75270, Pakistan.
Tel: (9221) 021-99261300-7 (Ext. 2274) (O)
Email: Farhan_74@hotmail.com
PERSONAL
DETAILS
Date
of Birth : July 14, 1974
Place of Birth : Kuwait
Nationality : Pakistani
EDUCATION
2010:
PhD (University of Karachi). Thesis Title: The State and Politics
of Ethnicity in Post-1971 Pakistan: An Analysis of the Baloch, Sindhi
and Mohajir Ethnic Movements.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Moonis Ahmar
Examiners: Prof. Stephen P. Cohen, Dr.
Mathew Nelson
1998-1999:
Master of Science in Theory and History of International Relations from
the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Jan-Dec.
1995: Master of Arts in International Relations from the University
of Karachi. Secured First Class First Position (Gold Medallist).
1991-1994:
Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Karachi.
Secured First Division.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009-
To Date Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations,
University of Karachi. Subjects Taught: International Political Theory,
International Political Economy, Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary
World and Contemporary International Politics.
1998-2009
Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi,
Pakistan. Subjects taught: International Political Economy, Diplomatic
History of Europe, 1789-1939, West Asia and the Arab World and Concepts
and Principles of International Relations.
1996-1998
Cooperative Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University
of Karachi. Subjects taught: Comparative Governments.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Ethnicity,
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict.
- State
Building, Ethnopolitics and Ethnic Conflict in Pakistan.
- Conflict
Resolution, Conflict Management and Security Studies in South Asia and
the Middle East.
- Theories
of International Relations.
PUBLICATIONS
a) BOOKS
- (2012,
Forthcoming)
The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir
Ethnic Movements (London: Routledge).
- (2001)
Moonis Ahmar and Farhan Hanif Siddiqi (eds.), The Challenges of Conflict
Resolution and Security in 21st Century: Problems and Prospects (Karachi:
Department of International Relations, University of Karachi).
b) Chapters
in Edited Books
- 2010:
Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Balochistan: Recommendations
and Analysis. In Maqsudul Hasan Nuri, Azhar Ahmad and Farhat Akram
(eds.), Balochistan: Rationalisation of Centre-Province Relations
(Islamabad: Islamabad Policy Research Institute).
- 2009:
Regional Security Dynamics in the Middle East: The Problematic
Search for a Regional Leader. In David Bosold et. al. (eds.), Regional
Leaders in the Global Security Arena: Interests, Strategies and Capabilities
(Berlin: German Council on Foreign Relations).
- 2009:
Theories of International Relations: From Liberal Internationalism
to Post-Positivism. In Moonis Ahmar (ed.), International Relations
Today: Theories, Methods and Areas of Research (Karachi: Department
of International Relations, University of Karachi).
- 2008:
The Failed Experiment with Federalism in Pakistan (1947-1971).
In Emilian Kavalski and Magdalena Zolkos (eds.), Defunct Federalisms:
Critical Perspectives on Federal Failure (Burlington: Ashgate).
- 2008:
A Case Study of Conflict Management in Northern Ireland.
In Moonis Ahmar (ed.), Conflict Management Mechanisms and the Challenge
of Peace (Karachi: Department of International Relations, University
of Karachi).
- 2005:
Peace and Conflict Studies in Pakistan. In Inayatullah et.
al, Social Sciences in Pakistan: A Profile (Islamabad: Council of
Social Sciences).
- 2003:
Conflict Resolution and Peace: Conceptual and Theoretical
Concerns. In Moonis Ahmar (ed.), Paradigms of Conflict Resolution
in South Asia (Dhaka: The University Press Limited).
- 2002:
An Introduction to Pakistan’s Ethnic and Religious
Conflicts. In Monique Mekenkamp, Paul van Tongeren, and Hans van de
Veen (eds.), Searching for Peace in Central and South Asia: An Overview
of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities (Boulder: Lynne
Rienner Publishers).
- 2001:
State Building and Internal Security in India and Pakistan:
The Need for a Domestic CBM Regime in South Asia. In Moonis Ahmar
(ed.), The Challenge of Confidence-Building in South Asia (New Delhi:
HarAnand Publications).
- 2001:
The Internal, External and Regional Dynamics of Security
in South Asia. In Moonis Ahmar and Farhan Hanif Siddiqi (eds.), The
Challenges of Conflict Resolution and Security in 21st Century: Problems
and Prospects (Karachi: Department of International Relations, University
of Karachi).
- 2000:
The Economic Dimension of the CTBT Controversy. In Moonis
Ahmar (ed.), The CTBT Controversy: Different Perceptions in South
Asia (Karachi: Department of International Relations, University of
Karachi).
- 1998:
Dual Containment Policy and South Asian Security. In Moonis
Ahmar (ed.), Internal and External Dynamics of South Asian Security
(Karachi: Fazleesons Ltd).
c) Articles
in Refereed Journals
- (2011)
Russia-NATO Ties: Impact on Neighbouring Regions, Journal of European
Studies, Forthcoming.
- (2010)
Nation-Formation and National Movement(s) in Pakistan: A Critical
Estimation of Hroch’s Stage Theory, Nationalities Papers: The
Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 777-792.
- (2010)
Intra-Ethnic Fissures in Ethnic Movements: The Rise of Mohajir Identity
Politics in Post-1971 Pakistan, Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.
25-41.
- (2009)
Pakistan’s Federal Predicament, Nepali Journal of Contemporary
Studies, Vol. IX, No. 1, pp. 56-73.
- (2000)
The State, Relative Deprivation and War: A Case Study of the Secession
of East Pakistan, 1947-1971, Pakistan Perspectives, Volume 5, Number
1, pp. 95-114.
- (2000)
The Effects of Debts on Pakistan's National Security, National Development
and Security, Volume IX, Number 2, pp. 37-49.
d ) Book
Reviews
- (2009)
Mazhar Aziz, Military Control in Pakistan: The Parallel State (Oxon,
UK: Routledge, 2008) in Journal of South Asian Development, Vol. 4,
No. 2.
- (2009)
Markus Daecshel, The Politics of Self Expression: The Urdu middle-class
milieu in mid-twentieth century India and Pakistan (London: Routledge,
2006) in Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 17, No. 3.
- (2009)
Martin Axmann, Back to the Future: The Khanate of Kalat and the Genesis
of Baloch Nationalism, 1915-1955 (Karachi: Oxford University Press,
2008) in Books and Authors (Daily Dawn).
- (2009)
Robert Nichols, A History of Pashtun Migration, 1775-2006 (Karachi:
Oxford University Press, 2008) in Books and Authors (Daily Dawn).
- (2008)
Hafeez Malik, US Relations with Afghanistan and Pakistan: The Imperial
Dimension (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2008) in Books and Authors
(Daily Dawn).
- (2008)
Mark Leonard, What Does China Think (London: Fourth Estate, 2008)
in Books and Authors (Daily Dawn).
- (2008)
Yunas Samad and Kasturi Sen (eds.), Islam in the European Union: Transnationalism,
Youth and the War on Terror (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2007)
in Books and Authors (Daily Dawn).
- (2007)
Jason Burke, On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in
the Islamic World (London: Penguin Books, 2007) in Books and Authors
(Daily Dawn).
- (2006)
Carsten Wieland, Nation State by Accident: The Politicization of Ethnic
Groups and the Ethnicization of Politics: Bosnia, India, Pakistan
(New Delhi: Manohar, 2006) in Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 15, No.
4.
- (2005)
Adeel Khan, Politics of Identity: Ethnic Nationalism and the State
in Pakistan (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2005) in Contemporary South
Asia, Vol. 14, No. 4.
- (2004)
Sumantra Bose, Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 2003) in Millennium: Journal of International
Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2.
- (2003)
Ranabir Samaddar, (ed.), Space, Territory and the State: New Readings
in International Politics (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2002) in Contemporary
South Asia, Vol. 12, No. 3.
- (2002)
Robert W. Stern, Democracy and Dictatorship in South Asia: Dominant
Classes and Political Outcomes in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
(Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2001) in Contemporary South Asia,
Vol. 11, No. 2.
- (2002)
Urmila Phadnis and Rajat Ganguly, Ethnicity and Nation-Building in
South Asia (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001) in Ethnopolitics,
Vol. 1, No. 3, March.
- (2001)
Haider Nizamani, The Roots of Rhetoric: Politics of Nuclear Weapons
in India and Pakistan (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000) in Millennium:
Journal of International Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3.
PPRESENTATIONS
IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS
2011-
Russia-NATO Ties: Impact on Neighbouring Regions in a seminar on New
Trends and Challenges in Trans-Atlantic Relations: Impact on World
Politics organised by the Area Study Centre for Europe, University
of Karachi.
2010-
New Developments in Indo-China Relations and their impact on global
and regional politics in a seminar on India as an Aspiring Global
Power: Regional and International Implications; The West’s Responses
organised by the Area Study Centre for Europe, University of Karachi.
2010-
Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Balochistan: Recommendations and Analysis
in a National Conference on Balochistan: Rationalization of Centre-Province
Relations organised by the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI).
2009-
Accommodating Ethnic Groups in Plural Structures of Governance: Pakistan’s
Federal Predicament in a workshop on Constitution Making and State
Restructuring organised by the Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies
(NCCS) in Dhulikhel, Nepal.
2008-
Regional Security Dynamics in the Middle East: The Problematic Search
for a Regional Leader in the Arab World in the New Faces Conference
organised by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin,
Germany.
2008-
Theoretical Dimensions of International Relations in a National Workshop
on The State of International Relations in Pakistan organised by the
Department of International Relations, University of Karachi and Higher
Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad.
2007-
The Pakistani State and Ethnic Movements in the War on Terror: A Theoretical
and Empirical Inquiry in the Lahore University of Management Sciences
(LUMS) Third Annual Social Sciences Conference on Pakistan in the
Current Global (Dis) Order.
2007-
Conflict Management in Northern Ireland in an International Workshop
on Conflict Management Mechanisms and the Challenge of Peace organised
by the Department of International Relations, University of Karachi
in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
2007-
The State and Politics of Ethnicity in Post-1971 Pakistan: The Case
of Balochistan in a conference on Beyond Independence: South Asia,
1947-1977 organised by the Department of History, Royal Holloway University,
UK.
2005-
Ethnic Conflict and Religious Violence in Pakistan: The Balochistan
Province after September 11, 2001 in the Political Studies Association
55th Annual Conference at the University of Leeds, UK.
2001-
Conflict Resolution and Peace: Conceptual and Theoretical Concerns
in a national workshop on The Paradigms of Conflict Resolution in
South Asia organised by the Department of International Relations,
University of Karachi under the Program on Peace Studies and Conflict
Resolution.
2001- State Building and Internal Security in India
and Pakistan: The Need for a Domestic CBM Regime in South Asia in
a regional Workshop on The Challenge of Confidence Building in 21st
Century: Problems and Prospects for South Asia, organized by the Department
of International Relations, University of Karachi under the Program
on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution.
2000-
Pakistan’s Nuclear Capabilities and Strategies as part of the
group presentation at the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS)
Summer Workshop on "Defence, Technology and Cooperative Security
in South Asia" held in Kathmandu, Nepal.
2000-
The Effects of Debts on Pakistan's National Security in a National
seminar on a Comprehensive Strategy for salvaging Pakistan from Debt
Liabilities organised by Foundation for Research on International
Environment, National Development and Security (FRIENDS) in collaboration
with Hans Seidel Foundation, Munich.
2000-
The Economics of the Middle East and South Asia Peace Processes: Regional
Cooperation, Integration and Dependence in a regional workshop on
Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Lessons Debated for South Asia, organised
by the Department of International Relations, University of Karachi
in collaboration with Ford Foundation, US.
1998-
The Role of Moderates and Hard-liners in the Middle East and South
Asia Peace Processes in the Ford Foundation/International Relations
Department Workshop on the Lessons for India and Pakistan from the
Arab Israeli Peace Process.
1996-
Dual Containment Policy and South Asian Security in an International
Workshop on Internal and External Dynamics of South Asian Security
organised by the Department of International Relations, University
of Karachi in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
1995-
US and UN in an International Conference on the occasion of the 50th
anniversary of the United Nations on 15th October 1995 organised by
the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, Karachi.
RESEARCH
ASSISTANTSHIPS
- I have
worked as a Research Assistant for the Ford Foundation/ Department
of International Relations, University of Karachi Project on the Lessons
for India and Pakistan from the Arab-Israeli Peace Process from November
1997 till January 1998. My duties included assisting the Project Director
in collecting research materials related to the project, organising
seminars and workshops conducted under the research project, marking
of newspaper clipping files and to help train users of the computer
lab.
- I have
also worked as a Research Assistant with Prof. Dr. S.M.A. Sayeed,
Department of Philosophy, University of Karachi on his book, Iran
Before and After Khomeini: A Study in the Dialectics of Shiism and
Modernity from September 1999 till November 1999. I have specially
helped him in the chapter on Iranian foreign policy, especially vis-à-vis
the United States and the Middle Eastern countries.
SCHOLARSHIPS
- I received
an Entrance Grant of £15,147 for my MSc course “Theory
and History of International Relations” (1998-99) from the London
School of Economics and Political Science.
PROFESSIONAL
COURSES
- I attended
the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) Summer Workshop on
Defence, Technology and Cooperative Security in South Asia held in
Kathmandu, Nepal from September 10-20, 2000.
- I attended
the United States Information Agency (USIA) Summer Program on the
American Political System held at the Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale from the June 28 till August 09, 1997.
INTERVIEWS
ON MEDIA
- I have
presented news analysis on BBC Hindi Service (radio) and various news
channels in Pakistan including CNBC, Geo TV and Pakistan Television
(PTV).
ORGANISATIONAL
WORK
- I organized
a half a day's Workshop on Security in the New Millennium: Envisioning
South Asia in the Twenty-First Century in collaboration with the Regional
Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) based in Colombo, Sri Lanka on
November 25, 2000 at the Department of International Relations, University
of Karachi.
MEMBERSHIP
OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
- Association
for Asian Studies (AAS)
- Association
for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)
REFERENCES
- Dr.
Moonis Ahmar, Professor, Department of International Relations, University
of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan. Email: amoonis@hotmail.com
- Dr.
Erik Ringmar, Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Center for
General Education, 1001 Ta Hsue Road, Hsinchu 300-10, Taiwan ROC.
Email: linreigu@ringmar.net
- Dr.
Mathew Nelson, Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics and International
Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. Email: mn6@soas.ac.uk
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