Professor Mustapha Pasha
Chair in International Relations
BA (Forman Christian College), LLB (Punjab University), MA, PhD (University of Denver)
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 273404 |
| E-mail: | m.k.pasha@abdn.ac.uk |
Biography
- 2006-Professor of International Relations, University of Aberdeen
- 2005-2006 Visiting Professor, Faculty of International Relations, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
- 2004-2005 Advanced Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS),
- 2004-2006 Research Associate, Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo
- 2003 (Spring) Visiting Professor, Faculty of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
- 1997-2006 Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C.
- 1993-1997 Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C.
Research Interests
- International Relations Theory
- Global Political Economy
- Critical Theory
- Islamic Studies
- South Asian Politics
Teaching Responsibilities
Post-Graduate Courses
- Social Theory (Ph.D. Seminar)
- Theories of Comparative and International Studies
- Comparative Political Economy
- Comparative and Regional Political Economy
- Ethics and International Relations
- Asia in Comparative Perspective
- International Relations of Asia
- Islamic Political Movements
- Political Economy of South Asia
- Political Economy of South Asia
Undergraduate Courses
- Theories of International Relations
- Modernity and Islam
- Peace and Conflict
- Comparative Politics
- World of Islam
- Civilizations of Asia
- Modern Islam
- Introduction to Globalization
External Responsibilities
- International Political Science Association
- British International Studies Association
- International Studies Association
- American Political Science Association
- Association of Asian Studies
- Washington Policy Analysis Group (1993-2003)
- Member, Nominating Committee of the Governing Council of the International Studies Association, 2006-2009.
- Member, Long-Range Planning Committee of the Governing Council, International Studies Association, 2003-2005.
- Director, Division of Comparative and Regional Studies, School of International Service, American University, August 2002-January 2003.
- Program Director, International Studies Association (ISA), 42nd Annual Convention, Chicago 2001. Supervised and coordinated 19 Sections of the ISA, organizing 457 panels, including 49 Theme panels.
- Chair, Global Development Section (1998-1999).
- Member, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships Screening Committee, Social Science Research Council (1998-1999).
- Vice-Chair, Global Development Section, International Studies Association (1997-1998).
Recent Honours/Awards
- International Studies Association Workshop Grant (2007)$5,000
- Advanced Research Fellowship (Long-term), 2004-2005, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). ¥4,000000 (Approx. £18,000
- Recipient, United States Institute of Peace Solicited Grant (2001-2002). Project: Religion and Civil Society in Pakistan. $25,000.
- Outstanding Service to International Studies Award, 1999-2000, School of International Service.
- University Senate Research Award, American University, 1999-2000. $9,000. Research on “Gender and Islam: The Taliban Movement in Comparative Perspective.”
- Scholar/Teacher Award, 1997-1998, School of International Service, American University.
- Outstanding Teaching in General Education Award 1995-96, School of International Service, American University.
- Outstanding Teaching Award 1994-95, School of International Service, American University.
- Recipient, Social Science Research Council Award to conduct joint research on “Rethinking Security in South Asia”, 1993-1994. $5000.
Recent Lectures/Presentations
Presented paper, “Global Leadership and the Islamic World,” International Symposium, “Global Crisis and the Crisis of Global Leadership, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, May 5-7, 2010.
Presented paper, “After Imperial Reason: Gandhi and the New Cosmopolitanism,” Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, March 3, 2010.
Keynote Speaker, International Symposium, “International Relations in an Inter-disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspective,” International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, March 27, 2010.
Roundtable Participant, “Post-Development? The Future of Global Capitalist Development in Theory and Practice, at the 51st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 17-20, 2010, New Orleans.
Presented paper, “Symbiosis and Fracture: Civil Society and Weak State in South Asia,” at the 51st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 17-20, 2010, New Orleans.
Roundtable Participant, Global Development Section Eminent Scholar Panel in Honor of Professor Stephen Chan, at the 51st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 17-20, 2010, New Orleans.
Chair, Roundtable, “After the Deluge: Neoliberalism and Critical Human Security,” at the 51st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 17-20, 2010, New Orleans.
Discussant, Panel on “After Development? Rethinking the Theories, Histories and Ethics of Capitalist Development,” at the 34th Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association,” 14-16 December 2009, University of Leicester.
Chair & Discussant, Panel on “De-colonising International Relations: Dividing Practices and the Study of World Politics,” at the 34th Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association,” 14-16 December 2009, University of Leicester.
Presented paper on “Liberalism, Redemption and Islamic Exceptionalism,” at the Annual Millennium Conference, “After Liberalism”, October 17-18, 2009, London School of Economics, London.
Roundtable Participant, “What Has Foucault Done for International Relations?” at the 50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 15-18, 2009, New York.
Chair, Global Development Eminent Scholar Panel Honoring Professor Mahmood Mamdani at the 50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 15-18, 2009, New York.
Discussant, panel on “Ethics, Humanity, and War,” at the 50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association,” February 15-18, 2009, New York.
Discussant, panel on “Religion, Order and Dissent” at the 33rd Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association, December 15-17, 2008, University of Exeter.
Chair & Discussant, panel on “Provincialising Foucault: Governmentality Beyond the West,” at the 33rd Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association, December 15-17, 2008, University of Exeter.
Presented paper on “Beyond Imperial Reason: Gandhi’s Critique of Imperial Reason,” at an international conference, “Gandhi in a Globalized World: Contemporary Relevance of Gandhian Thought,” December 1-3, 2008, Central European University, Budapest.
Roundtable Discussant, Global Development Eminent Scholar Panel Honoring Professor R.B.J. Walker at the 49th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 26-29, 2008, San Francisco.
Chair, Roundtable “Beyond Critical Security Studies: Human Security in the Age of Globalization” at the 49th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 26-29, 2008, San Francisco.
Presented paper on “Muslim Narratives and Perceptions,” at a conference on “Shared Values, Shared Fated: Muslim Identity in the Global Age,” Washington D.C., May 30, 2007, Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Presented paper on “Islam and the State of Exception” at a workshop on “Political Islam, Political Violence: The Rationale(s) of Legitimation/Legality for ‘Us’ and ‘Them’,” May 25-26 May, 2007, St. Andrews University.
Roundtable participant, “The Social, Legal and Political Challenges of Counter-Terrorism,” a CHALLENGE workshop, May 3, 2007, King’s College, London.
Chair, Roundtable “Thinking Past Western IR: Islamic Perspectives on World Order,” at the 48th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 28-March 3, 2007, Chicago.
Chair, Roundtable “Ethics of Responsibility: An Inter-Civilizational Dialogue,” at the 48th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 28-March 3, 2007, Chicago.
Chair, Roundtable, “Power and Production, 20 Years on an Assessment of the Contributions of Robert Cox and Jeffrey Harrod: Production and Power and World Order Reconsidered” at the 48th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 28-March 3, 2007, Chicago.
Chair, “Global Development Eminent Scholar Panel Honoring Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty” at the 48th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 28-March 3, 2007, Chicago.
Discussant, panel “Post-Hegemonic Scholarship I: Alterity, Constructions of Self and Other, and Order,” at the 48th Annual Convention of International Studies Association, February 28-March 3, 2007, Chicago.
Chair and Discussant, panel “Bringing Walter Benjamin Back in International Relations and International Political Economy,” at 48th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 28-March 3, 2007, Chicago.
Roundtable participant, “London in a Time of Terror: the Politics of Response,” in a BISA Post-Structural Politics Working Group conference, London December 8, 2006, Birbeck College, University of London.
Roundtable Discussant, “Global Development Eminent Scholar Panel Honoring Professor Silvia Federici” at the 47th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 22-25, 2006, San Diego.
Chair and Roundtable Discussant, “Human In (Security) in Global North-South Relations III: Civilizational Crises and the Dialogue of Civilizations,” at the 47th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 22-25, 2006, San Diego.
Discussant, panel “Geocultural Epistemologies and IR: The Significance of Space, Time, and Culture,” at the 47th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 22-25, 2006, San Diego.
Presented paper, “Sovereignty, ‘Failed States’ and the Lure of Civil Society,” at the First Global International Studies Conference, August 24-27, 2005, Bilgi University, Istanbul.
Presented paper, “Postorientalism and Islam,” at the 46th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association,” March 1-5, 2005, Hawaii.
Roundtable Discussant, “Global Development Eminent Scholar Panel Honoring Professor Kinhide Mushakoji,” at the 46th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 1-5, 2005, Hawaii.
Roundtable Discussant, “Human Security, Migration, and Informal Diaspora Communities in Global Perspective,” at the 46th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 1-5, 2005, Hawaii.
Presented paper on “Entangled Worlds: Postorientalism, Islam, and Modernity” at Aichi University, July 27, 2004, Aichi, Japan.
Presented paper on “Violence, Modernity, and Political Identity in South Asia” at the Eighth Annual Asian Studies Conference in Japan, June 19-20, 2004, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
Presented paper on “Islam and International Relations at the Institute of Oriental Culture, The University of Tokyo, April 18, 2004.
Participant, Roundtable on “Unprotected Work” at the Department of Political Science, York University, March 22, 2004, York, Canada.
Roundtable Discussant, “Geo-Cultural Epistemologies in IR: Peripheral Thinking and Its Role in Constructing a Post-Western Discipline” at the 45th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 17-20, 2004, Montreal, Canada.
Presented paper on “Islam as International Relations” at the 45th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 17-20, 2004, Montreal, Canada.
Discussant, panel on “Epistemic Violence: The Future of World Politics” at the 45th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 17-20, 2004, Montreal, Canada.
Presented paper on “Concealment and Governmentality in Empire-Making” at the 45th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 17-20, 2004, Montreal, Canada.
Chair, “Global Development Eminent Scholar Panel Honoring Professor Timothy M. Shaw at the 45th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 17-20, 2004, Montreal, Canada.
Participant, International Studies Association Workshop on “Geo-Cultural Epistemologies in IR”, at the ISA 45th Annual Convention, March 17-20, 2004, Montreal, Canada.
Chair and Discussant, “Global Development Eminent Scholar Panel Honoring Professor Fred Dallmayr at the 44th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 25-March 1, 2003, Portland, Oregon.
Presented Paper on “Liberalism, Islam, and International Relations” at the 44th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 25-March 1, 2003, Portland, Oregon.
Presented paper on “Islam, Orientalism, and Empire: A Gramscian Rereading” at the Conference “Images of Gramsci”, University of Nottingham, UK, October 2003.
Presented paper on “Gramsci, Islam, Empire,” at the University of Birmingham, UK, October, 2003.
Presented Keynote Address at the International Conference on Kashmir, University of California at Los Angeles, April 14, 2002.
Program Chair, International Conference on “Pakistan: Islam and Civil Society at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century” at American University, April 8, 2002.
Chair and Discussant, “Global Development Eminent Scholar Panel Honoring Professor Janet Abu-Lughod at the 43rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 2002, New Orleans.
Presented paper entitled “Recovering Ibn Khaldun in the Era of Globalization” at the Fourth Pan-European Conference on International Relations sponsored by the European Consortium of Political Research at the University of Kent, U.K. (September 7-10, 2001).
Chair and Discussant on panel entitled “Globalization and Its Counter-Tendencies” at the International Studies Association Convention on “Globalization and Its Challenges in the 21st Century” in Hong Kong (July 25-28, 2001).
Organized and Chaired panel entitled “Outside the Economic Whale: Globalization, Culture, and Resistance” at the International Studies Association Convention on “Globalization and Its Challenges in the 21st Century” in Hong Kong (July 25-28, 2001).
Presented paper entitled “Economism, Globalization, and the Promise of Resistance,” at the International Studies Convention on “Globalization and Its Challenges in the 21st Century” in Hong Kong (July 25-28, 2001).
Presented paper entitled “Global Civil Society and Human Rights” at the Conference on Globalization and Human Rights sponsored by the European Master’s Programme, Venice-Lido (June 6-10, 2001).
Presented paper entitled “Producing Failure: State Collapse and the Lure of Civil Society” at the Plenary Session of the Conference on “The Global Constitution of ‘Failed States’, sponsored by the British International Studies Association hosted by the Centre for Political Economy, University of Sussex (April 18-20, 2001)
Organized and Chaired, Distinguished Senior Scholar Panel of the Global Development Section of the International Studies Association in Honor of Dr. Ashis Nandy at the 42nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association in Chicago (February 2001).
Organized and Chaired Roundtable on “Post-Kargil Blues: The Crisis of State and Civil Society in Pakistan” at the 29th Annual Conference on South Asia”, Madison, Wisconsin, October 12-15, 2000.
Presented paper on “Neoliberal Globalization, Culture, and Islamic Cosmopolitanism” at International Conference, COSMOPOLIS: Democratising Economy and Culture, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, June 1-4, 2000.
Presented paper on “Islam and Civil Society in South Asia” at the South Asia Seminar Series, George Washington University, Washington D.C., December 8, 1998.
Commentator in Post-Film Discussion of “Mr. Jinnah: The Making of Pakistan”, at the Traveling Film South Asia Series, American University, Washington D.C., December 4, 1998.
Organized panel on “Orientalism and After: Reflections on the Work of Edward Said” at the School of International Service, American University, December 3, 1998.
Presented paper on “Civil Society and Political Patterns of Inequality” at Conference on ‘Power and Civil Society in Pakistan’, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., November 14, 1998.
Presented paper on “In the Shadow of Globalization: State and Civil Society in South Asia” at the 27th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 16-19, 1998.
Panelist on “Did India and Pakistan’s Bomb explode the legacy of Kennedy’s American University Speech?” at the 31st Anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s American University Speech, School of International Service, American University, June 10, 1998.
Presented paper on “Globalization and State Power in South Asia” at the 1998 Annual Association for Asian Studies Meeting, Washington D.C., March 26-29, 1998.
Presented paper on “Liberalization, Globalization and Inequality in South Asia” at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Minneapolis, March 17-21, 1998.
Presented paper on “South Asian Crisis: A Khaldunian Perspective” at the Roundtable on Fifty Years of Pakistan, the 26th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 16-19, 1997.
Chair, Roundtable on Fifty Years in Pakistan, the 26th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 16-19, 1997.
Discussant, Roundtable on “Fifty Years of Pakistan: Critical Reflections” at the 26th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 16-19, 1997.
Panelist on “South Asia: The 50th Anniversary Balance Sheet” at the Dean’s International Issues Forum, SIS, American University, September 10, 1997.
Discussant on panel on “Democratic Institutions and Peace in South Asia” at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 28-31, 1997.
Organized International Conference on Pakistan at American University, August 2, 1997.
Discussant at the Symposium on Fifty Years of India and Pakistan, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, June 3-4, 1997.
Presented paper on “The Paradoxes of History” at the Symposium on Kashmir, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas, April 5-7, 1997.
Participant at the Conference on South Asia, National Endowment for Democracy, February 28, 1997.
Presented paper on “Civil Society, Economic Reform and Politics in Pakistan” at 29th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Washington D.C., December 6-9, 1995.
Presented paper on “Politics, Discourse and Powerlessness in Pakistan,” at the 24th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 20-22, 1995.
Presented paper on “Identity formation in South Asia”, for the United States Institute of Peace Workshop on “Ethnicity, Politics and Violence: A Cultural Perspective on Global Conflicts”, at American University, September 16, 1995.
Discussant on panel on “Power and Society in Pakistan” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington D.C., April 6-9, 1995.
Panelist, Roundtable on “Rethinking Democratic Development in Pakistan: Gender, Ethnicity and Class” at the 23rd Annual Conference on South Asia, November 4-6, 1994, Madison, Wisconsin.
Panelist, Roundtable on “Political and Legal Development in Pakistan” at the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, October 6-8, 1994, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Panelist, “South Asia and the United States after the Cold War,” an International Symposium sponsored by the Asia Society, September 22-23, 1994, The Ritz Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Presented paper on “Security as Hegemony: National Security and Civil Society in India and Pakistan” at the Workshop on “Rethinking South Asian Security Studies” sponsored by the Social Science Council and the MacArthur Foundation, August 26-28, 1994, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Presented paper (with Ahmed I. Samatar) on “Piety and Politics: Islam and the Struggle Against Marginalization”, at the 35th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Washington D.C., March 28-April 1, 1994.
Presented paper on “Transnationalization, Civil Society and Social Transformation in Pakistan,” at Annual Conference on Pakistan, Southern Asia Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, March 29, 1994.
Panelist, Conference on Democracy in the Arab World, American University, March 18, 1994.
Presented paper on “Civil Society and Democracy in India and Pakistan” at the International Development Forum, SIS, American University, February 25, 1994.
Panelist, Roundtable on “Global Civil Society”, American University, February 18, 1994.
Panelist, Roundtable on “Democratic Development in Pakistan” at the Southeast/Association for Asian Studies Regional Conference, Harrisonburg, Virginia, January 13-15, 1994.
Panelist, Roundtable on Pakistan: “Is Democracy Winning”, at the 22nd Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, November 5-7, 1993.
Presented paper on Community and Society: Toward an Islamic Perspective on Global Order”, at the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C. September 2-5, 1993.
Editorial Committees
- Member, Editorial Board, Globalizations, 2004-present
- Member, Editorial Board, International Political Sociology, 2006-present.
- Member, Consortium Committee of Islamic Scholars, 1998-Present.
- Member, Editorial Board of Critical Asian Studies (formerly Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars), 1992-Present.
- Contributing Editor, The Bloomsbury Review, 1990-Present.
- Member, Editorial Board, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. 2001-present.
Academic Supervision
- Convenor, International Relations Theory, University of Aberdeen
- Supervised over 75 individual projects at American University at the graduate and post-graduate levels, including Doctoral dissertations, Master’s Theses, Independent Studies, Substantial Research Projects, and Internships.
Publications
- Pasha, MK. Islam and the Postsecular, Article, 2012, Review of International Studies, 38, 5, pp1041 - 1056, ISSN/ISBN: 0260-2105
- Pasha, MK. Islam, Nihilism and Liberal Secularity, Article, 2012, Journal of International Relations and Development, 15, 1, ISSN/ISBN: 1408-6980
- Pasha, MK. The 'Secular' Subject of Critical International Relations Theory, Chapter, 2012, Critical Theory in International Relations and Security Studies, pp105 - 114
- Pasha, MK. Global Leadership and the Islamic World, Chapter, 2011, Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership, pp144 - 160
- Pasha, MK. Untimely Reflections, Chapter, 2011, International Relations and Non-Western Thought, pp217 - 226
- Pasha, MK. Western Nihilism and Dialogue, Article, 2011, Millennium, 39, 3, pp683 - 699, ISSN/ISBN: 0305-8298
- Pasha, MK. Disciplining Foucault, Comment/debate, 2010, International Political Sociology, 4, 2, pp213 - 215, ISSN/ISBN: 1749-5679
- Pasha, MK. In the Shadows of Globalization, Article, 2010, Globalizations, 7, 1-2, pp173 - 185, ISSN/ISBN: 1474-7731
- Pasha, MK. Symbiosis and Fracture, Chapter, 2010, South Asia’s Weak States, pp122 - 144
- Pasha, MK. Collateral Damage, Article, 2009, Globalizations, 6, 1, pp151 - 156, ISSN/ISBN: 1474-7731
- Pasha, MK. Global Exception and Islamic Exceptionalism, Article, 2009, International Politics, 46, 5, pp527 - 549, ISSN/ISBN: 1384-5748
- Pasha, MK. Civilizations, Postorientalism and Islam, Chapter, 2008, Civilizational Identity , pp61 - 79
- Pasha, MK. How Can We End Poverty?, Chapter, 2008, Global Politics , pp320 - 343
- Pasha, MK. Return to the Source , Chapter, 2008, Gramsci, Political Economy, and International Relations Theory, pp153 - 168
- Pasha, MK. Hegemony, Perilous Empire and Human Security, Chapter, 2007, Asia-Pacific Geopolitics, pp23 - 41
- Pasha, MK. Liberalism, Islam, and International Relations, Chapter, 2006, Decolonizing International Relations, pp65 - 85