Farhan Hanif Siddiqi (LECTURER)

Department of International Relations
University of Karachi
Karachi-75270, Pakistan.
Tel: (9221) 4219153 (Home) 0323 210 6855 (Mobile)
Email: Farhan_74@hotmail.com

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth : July 14, 1974
Place of Birth : Kuwait
Nationality : Pakistani

EDUCATION

2007-2008: Currently pursuing a PhD, titled, 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.

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.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

1996-Till Present Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, Pakistan. I teach the following subjects: International Politics, International Political Economy, Middle East and Concepts and Principles of International Relations to postgraduate students.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• State Building and Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan; Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism; Politics and Government in Pakistan; Conflict Resolution and Security Dynamics in South Asia; Theories of International Relations.

WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS ATTENDED

2008: Presented a paper 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: Presented a paper 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: Presented a paper 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: Presented a paper 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: Presented a paper 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: Presented a paper 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: Presented a paper 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: Presented a paper 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: Delivered a talk on 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: Presented a paper 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: Presented a paper 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: Presented a paper 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 Presented a paper 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: Presented a paper 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.

 

PUBLICATIONS

a) Book

• 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, 2001).

b) Chapters in Books

• “Regional Security Dynamics in the Middle East: The Problematic Search for a Regional Leader in the Arab World” in David Bosold et. al. (eds.), Regional Leaders in the Global Security Arena: Interests, Strategies and Capabilities (Berlin: German Council on Foreign Relations, Forthcoming 2008).
• “Peace and Conflict Studies in Pakistan”, co-author with Moonis Ahmar in Inayatullah et. al, Social Sciences in Pakistan: A Profile (Islamabad: Council of Social Sciences, 2005).
• “Conflict Resolution and Peace: Conceptual and Theoretical Concerns” in Moonis Ahmar (ed.), Paradigms of Conflict Resolution in South Asia (Dhaka: The University Press Limited, 2003).
• “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, 2001).
• “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, 2002).
• “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, 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, 2001).
• “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, 2000).
• “Dual Containment Policy and South Asian Security” in Moonis Ahmar (ed.), Internal and External Dynamics of South Asian Security (Karachi: Fazleesons Ltd., 1998).

 

c) Articles in Journals

• “The State and Politics of Ethnonationalism in Pakistan: The Case of Balochistan, 1973-1977” Contemporary South Asia (Routledge), Forthcoming 2008.
• “The State, Relative Deprivation and War: A Case Study of the Secession of East Pakistan, 1947-1971” Pakistan Perspectives (Karachi), Volume 5, Number 1, January-June, 2000.
• “The Effects of Debts on Pakistan's National Security” National Development and Security (Rawalpindi), Volume IX, Number 2, Winter 2000.

d) Book Reviews

• Carsten Wieland, Nation State by Accident: The Politicization of Ethnic Groups and the Ethnicization of Politics: Bosnia, India, Pakistan in Contemporary South Asia Vol. 15, No. 4, December 2006.

• 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, December 2005.

• 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, 2004.

• 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, September 2003.

• 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, 2002.

• Urmila Phadnis and Rajat Ganguly, Ethnicity and Nation-Building in South Asia (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001) in Global Review of Ethnopolitics Vol. 1, No. 3, March 2002.

• 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, 2001.

 

 

INTERVIEWS/GUEST LECTURES

• I have presented news analysis on various channels in Pakistan including CNBC, Geo TV and Pakistan Television (PTV).

• Delivered a lecture to the faculty and members of Air War College, Pakistan Air Force, Karachi on Peace Prospects in South Asia in the changing geopolitical environment on July 2, 2001.

RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS

• 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 the users of the computer lab.

• 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, specially 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

• 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.

• I attended the United States Information Agency (USIA) Summer Program on the American Political System held at the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale from the 28th of June till the 9th of August 1997.

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.

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