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

1. Ethnicity, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict.
2. State Building, Ethnopolitics and Ethnic Conflict in Pakistan.
3. Conflict Resolution, Conflict Management and Security Studies in South Asia and the Middle East.
4. Theories of International Relations.

PUBLICATIONS

a) Books

1.   2012 | The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements (London: Routledge).

2.   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

1.   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).

2.   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).

3.   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).

4.   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).

5.   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).

6.   2005 | Peace and Conflict Studies in Pakistan. In Inayatullah et. al, Social Sciences in Pakistan: A Profile (Islamabad: Council of Social Sciences).

7.   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).

8.   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).

9.   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).

10.   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).

11.   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).

12.   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

1. (2011) Russia-NATO Ties: Impact on Neighbouring Regions, Journal of European Studies, Forthcoming.

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (2009) Pakistan’s Federal Predicament, Nepali Journal of Contemporary Studies, Vol. IX, No. 1, pp. 56-73.

5. (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.

6. (2000) The Effects of Debts on Pakistan's National Security, National Development and Security, Volume IX, Number 2, pp. 37-49.
 

d ) Book Reviews

1. (2009) Mazhar Aziz, Military Control in Pakistan: The Parallel State (Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2008) in Journal of South Asian Development, Vol. 4, No. 2.

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.

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).

4. (2009) Robert Nichols, A History of Pashtun Migration, 1775-2006 (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2008) in Books and Authors (Daily Dawn).

5. (2008) Hafeez Malik, US Relations with Afghanistan and Pakistan: The Imperial Dimension (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2008) in Books and Authors (Daily Dawn).

6. (2008) Mark Leonard, What Does China Think (London: Fourth Estate, 2008) in Books and Authors (Daily Dawn).

7. (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).

8. (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).

9. (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.

10. (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.

11. (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.

12. (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.

13. (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.

14. (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.

15. (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

1. 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.

2. 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

1. 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.

2. 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

1. Association for Asian Studies (AAS)

2. Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)

REFERENCES

1. Dr. Moonis Ahmar, Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan. Email: amoonis@hotmail.com

2. 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

3. 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