RESEARCH JOURNAL

The Department launched its first bi-annual research journal, namely, Pakistan Journal of International Relations (PJIR) in 2008 but due to many financial constraints the Journal could not continue after 2016. Now with new ambitions and goals the Department is launching a new journal the Journal of International Studies (JIST). The JIST purports to be a quality, peer reviewed Journal inviting interesting and thought provoking contributions from scholars of national and international repute as well as doctoral students and researchers. The JIST covers subject areas: International, Regional and Domestic Security; Conflict Resolution and Confidence Building Measures; Peace Studies and Peace Building; Theories of International Relations; Globalization; Terrorism and Political Violence; National Defense Policy; Foreign Policy issues of different regions and of states; Nuclear Proliferation; Ethnic Conflicts; Inter-state and Intra-state Warfare; International Law and United Nations; Human Security and Development; Human Rights Environment; Gender issues; Regional Cooperation and Regional Institutional Building; Economics; Social political issues; Islam & International Relations.

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Following Research Projects funded by the international grant making organizations have been given to the Department: -

1. Peace by Process: Lessons for India and Pakistan from the Middle East by the Ford Foundation in August 1997. (Prof. Dr. Moonis Ahmar)
2. The Role and Relevance of CBMs in the post-nuclear South Asia by the U.S. Institute of Peace in March 2000. (Prof. Dr. Moonis Ahmar)
3. Database on Violence and Terrorism in South Asia: 1971-2004. Project funded by the Ford Foundation and in collaboration with the Regional Center for Strategic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2003. (Prof. Dr. Moonis Ahmar)
4. Research project on Water Issues in South Asia funded by the United Nations Environmental program (UNEP) and Woodrow Wilson Center Washington D.C. (Prof. Dr. Shaista Tabassum)
5. Research project on ‘River Water Sharing Problem Between India and Pakistan: A case study of Indus Water Treaty’, funded by the regional center for strategic studies, Colombo Sri Lanka. (Prof. Dr. Shaista Tabassum)
6. Community Resilience to Violent Extremism in Pakistan: 2020 to present. The project is funded by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) Pakistan and Creative Learning (CL) Washington D.C. (Prof. Dr. Shaista Tabassum)

 

PUBLICATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT

Authored Books:

1. Moonis Ahmar, Conflict Management and Vision for a Secular Pakistan (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2014).

2. Farhan Hanif Siddiqi, The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements (Routledge, 2012).

3. Shaista Tabassum, The Middle East in a Changing World: A Contemporary Appraisal (Karachi: Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, 2011).

4. Shaista Tabassum, Nuclear Policy of The United States in South Asia: Proliferation or Non-Proliferation (1947-1900), (Karachi: Royal Book Company, 2003).

5. Chaudhri Mohammad Ahsen, Pakistan and Regional Security, Faculty of Arts in cooperation with the Department of International Relations, University of Karachi.

 

Edited Books:

1. Nausheen Wasi et al (eds)., Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations: Pitfalls and the Way Forward (Islamabad: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2021).

2. Nausheen Wasi et al (eds)., Making Sense of Post Covid-19 Politics, (Karachi: Lightstone Publishers LTD., 2020).

3. Ahmar, Moonis, The Challenge of Rebuilding Afghanistan (ed.), (Karachi: Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Islamabad, 2005).

4. Ahmar, Moonis, Different Perceptions on Conflict Resolution: Need for an Alternate Approach (ed.), (Karachi: Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, 2005).

5. Ahmar, Moonis, The World after September 11: Challenges and Opportunities (ed.), (Karachi: Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, 2003).

6. Ahmar, Moonis, Paradigms of Conflict Resolution in South Asia (ed.), (Dhaka: University Press Limited, 2003).

7. Ahmar, Moonis, Chronology of Conflict and Cooperation in South Asia 1947-2001 (ed.), (Karachi: Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, 2001).

8. Ahmar, Moonis, The Challenge of Confidence Building in South Asia (ed.), (New Delhi: Har Anand, 2001).

9. Ahmar, Moonis, The Arab-Israeli Peace Process Lessons for India and Pakistan (ed.), (Karachi:  Oxford University Press, 2001).

10. Ahmar, Moonis & Farhan H. Siddiqi, The Challenges of Conflict Resolution and Security in 21st Century: Problems and Prospects (eds.), (Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Dept. Of International Relations, University of Karachi).

11. Ahmar, Moonis, The CTBT Controversy: Different Perceptions In South Asia (ed.), (Karachi: Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, 2000).

12. Wizarat, Talat A. Conflict Resolution in South Asia (ed.), (Karachi: Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, 1999).

13. Ahmar, Moonis, Internal and External Dynamics of South Asia Security (ed.), (Karachi: Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, 1998).

14. Ahmar, Moonis, Contemporary Central Asia (ed.), (Karachi: Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, 1995).

 

 

 

 

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