Dr Shamsul Khan

Dr. Shamsul Khan studied Political Science, International Relations, History, Economics, German, French and Latin at the Universities of Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Heidelberg (Germany) and received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Heidelberg in 1985. His previous teaching, research and administrative positions include:

Visiting Professor, College of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia.

Senior Fulbright Scholar, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Chairperson & Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

USIS Visiting Scholar for University Lecturing, Washington DC, USA

Visiting Research Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA

Postdoctoral Fellow, Departement de Science Politique, Universite de Paris I (Sorbonne-Pantheon), France

Postdoctoral Fellow, School of International Agrar-Economy, University of Kassel, Germany

Visiting Scholar, Goethe-Institut, Munich/Berlin, Germany

Research Fellow, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Visiting Research Associete, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore

• International political economy & development perspectives
• Contemporary world politics
• Strategy and foreign policy analysis
• Global and regional security
• Regime theories & comparative politics of the Asia-Pacific Region
• Gender issues and the empowerment debate

Australian Association of International Affairs

American Political Science Association

European Association of Modern South Asian Studies

BA (Honours)(Dhaka)

MA (Dhaka)

Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education & International Development (Kassel)

Ph.D.(Heidelberg) in International Relations

• Contemporary debates in global and regional security
• Nonstrategic security and population politics
• International economic relations, & intra & inter-regional cooperation
• Democratisation and "Dual Transitions" in Asia and former Soviet bloc countries
• Gender issues, the empowerment debate and development perspectives
• Gender debates in international relations
• Sustainable development and human security

"Prosperity Up and Down Under: Comparison of Economic Challenges in India and Australia" (with Dr Rakhee Bhattacharya): In The Journal of Comparative Asian Development, Vol. 9, No. 1, June 2010 (submitted in April 2009)

"The Military and the Praetorian Regimes in Pakistan Politics: Political Usurpers or Protectors of an Incipient Democracy?", Journal of International Studies, Vol. 5, 2009 (Submitted in February 2009).

"Muhammad Yunus: An Economics Professor Who Turned The Tables On Banking In Bangladesh". In J.V. D'Cruz, Nathan Hollier & Gloria Davies (eds.), Profiles in Courage: Political Actors & Ideas in Contemporary Asia; Melbourne: (Australian Scholarly Publishing) 2008.

Political Culture, Political Parties, and the Democratic Transition in Bangladesh (co-authored with S Aminul Islam & M. Imdadul. Haque); Updated and Revised 2nd Edition,Dhaka: (The University Press Limited) 2008.

"'Islamic Fundamentalism' in the Asia-Pacific Region: Failures of Civil Societies or Backlash against the US Hegemony?". In Purnendra Jain, Felix Patrikeeff and Gerry Groot (eds.), Asia-Pacific and a New International Order: Responses and Options; New York (Nova Science Publishers) 2006

"Trade Unions, Gender Issues and the Ready-Made-Garment Industry of Bangladesh". In Jessica Vivian and Carol Miller (eds.), Women's Employment in the Textiles Manufacturing Sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco; Geneva and New York (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development & United Nations Development Programme) 2002.

"Gender Issues and the Ready-Made-Garments Industry of Bangladesh: The Trade Union Context". In Nasreen Khundker and Rehman Sobhan (eds.), Globalisation and Gender: Changing Patterns of Women's Employment in Bangladesh; Dhaka (The University Press Ltd, with the Centre for Policy Dialogue) 2001

"Gender Issues and the Ready-Made-Garments Industry of Bangladesh"; In R. Sharavi (eds), Feminisation of the Labour Force in the Context of Trade Liberalisation and Labour Force Deregulation (UNRISD occasional paper), Geneva (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development) 2000.

Political Culture, Political Parties, and the Democratic Transition in Bangladesh (co-authored with S Aminul Islam & M. I. Haque); Dhaka and San Francisco (Academic Publishers, with The Asia Foundation, USA) 1996

"US Foreign Economic Policies in the 1990s: An Interpretative Study"; In Hasina Matin and M. Imdadul Haque (eds.), The United States: Society and Culture, Dhaka (The United States Information Service, Dhaka & Bangladesh Association for American Studies, University of Dhaka) 1996

"French Nuclear Doctrine in a Changing Geopolitical Order: Dialectics of Ambitions and Abilities"; In Journal of International Relations, Vol. 3, No. 2, January-June, 1996

"A `Fortress Europe' in the Offing: European Union, Single Market and the Developing World". In Journal of International Relations, Vol.1, No.2, January-June, 1994

"Economic Burden of a Superpower: The United States in the 1990s". In Fakrul Alam, Shamsul I. Khan and Niaz Zaman (eds.), Proceeding of the Regional American Studies Conference, 1993; Dhaka (The United States Information Service, Dhaka & Bangladesh Association for American Studies, University of Dhaka) 1994

"In the Shadow of Reaganomics?: the American ¡®lonely¡¯ Middle Class during the Bush Presidency". In Hasina Matin and S. Aminul Islam (eds.), The United States: Society and Culture; Dhaka (The United States Information Service, Dhaka & Bangladesh Association for American Studies, University of Dhaka) 1993

"The Sub-Systemic Divergence in an Unstable International System: Dynamics of Indo-Nepal Relations". In Emajuddin Ahamed and Abul Kalam (eds.), Bangladesh, South Asia and The World; Dhaka (Academic Publishers) 1992

"The Economic and Security Aspects of Intra-Regional Co-operation: ASEAN and SAARC". In Dagmar Bernstorff and Dieter Braun (eds.), South Asia: Political Participation, Ethnic Conflict and Regional Co-operation; New Delhi (Monohar Publications) 1990

"Power, Authority and Legitimacy in the International System: A Conceptual Framework". In Nazrul Islam, Shamsul I. Khan and B.K. Jahangir (eds.), Karl Marx and Max Weber: Perspectives on Theory and Domination; Dhaka (Centre for Advanced Research in Social Sciences, University of Dhaka) 1988

"Security and Foreign Policy Options: The Case of Singapore". In M. Abdul Hafiz and Abdur Rob Khan (eds.), Security of Small States; Dhaka (The University Press Ltd.) 1987