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Professor Mustapha Kamal Pasha

BA (Forman Christian College), LLB (Punjab University)
MA, PhD (University of Denver)
Professor of International Relations

Contact Information
Current and Recent Posts
Recent Courses Taught
Academic Positions
Professional Membership/Activitie
Recent Honours/Awards
Publications

Contact Information

Tel: +44 (0) 1224 273404

Email: m.k.pasha@abdn.ac.uk

Current and Recent Posts

2006-Sixth Century 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.

Recent Courses

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

Professional Membership/Activities

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 Lectures/Presentations

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, 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.
Participant, Roundtable on “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, 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, Montreal, Canada.
Presented paper on “Concealment and Governmentality in Empire-Making” at the 45th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 17-20, Montreal, Canada.
Chair, Distinguished Senior Scholar Panel in Global Development in Honor of 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, Distinguished Senior Scholar Panel in Global Development in Honor of Professor Fred Dallmayr at the 44the 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, Distinguished Senior Scholar Panel in Global Development in Honor of 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.

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.

Publications

Books (authored/co-authored)

Colonial Political Economy (Oxford 1998)
Out From Underdevelopment Revisited: Changing Global Structures and the Remaking of the Third World (with James H. Mittelman). Macmillan, 1997.

Books (co-edited)

Protecting Human Security in a Post-9.11 World. Palgrave 2007
International Relations and the New Inequality. Blackwell 2002.

Books in Progress

Islam and International Relations: Modernity, Nihilism, and Politics.
Civil Society: Promises and Illusions.
Human Security: Critical Perspectives.
Crisis and Resurgence: Islam in Global and Local Contexts.

Book Chapters

“Postorientalism, Civilizations and Islam,” in Writing Civilizations”, edited by Martin Hall & Patrick Jackson (Palgrave 2007).
“Modernity, Civil Society, and Religious Resurgence in South Asia” in International Political Economy Yearbook Volume 13: Gods, Guns & Globalization edited by Mary Ann Treault & Robert A. Denemark. London & Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004, pp. 135-151.
“Savage Capitalism and Civil Society in Pakistan” in Power and Civil Society in Pakistan Edited by Anita M. Weiss and S. Zulifiqar Gilani (Oxford 2001), pp. 18-45.
“Globalisation, Islam and Resistance” in Globalisation and the Politics of Resistance edited by Barry K. Gills (Macmillan, 2000), pp. 241-254.
“Ibn Khaldun and World Order” in refereed book Innovation and Transformation in International Relations Theory edited by Stephen Gill and James H. Mittelman (Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 56-70.
“The Hyper-Extended State: Civil Society and Democracy” in State, Society and Democratic Change in Pakistan edited by Rasul B. Rais (Oxford University Press, 1997).
“The Resurgence of Islam” with Ahmed Samatar in refereed book Globalization: Critical Reflections edited by James H. Mittelman (Lynne Rienner, 1996).
“Islamization, Civil Society, and the Politics of Transition in Pakistan” in Religion and Political Conflict in South Asia edited by Douglas Allen (Greenwood Press, 1992).
“Beyond the Two Nation Divide: Kashmir and ‘Resurgent’ Islam” in Perspectives on Kashmir: The Roots of Conflict in South Asia edited by Raju G.C. Thomas (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992).

People

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