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Dr. Ahmad Rashid Malik


Areas of Research:

China-Pakistan relations, Asia Pacific (Japan & Korean Peninsula)

Dr. Ahmad Rashid Malik has been working as Senior Research Fellow (China, Japan, & Asia-Pacific) at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad. He earned his Doctorate from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (1998), and M.A. from the International University of Japan (国際大学), Niigata, Japan (1989). He had been Fellow of the Korea Foundation at the Economic Institute of Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea (1998) and Fellow of the Japan Foundation in Tokyo (2010-11). He regularly writes for newspapers and magazines especially on East Asian affairs and contributed a number of research papers in academic journals in the wider perspective of political economy. He is the author of Pakistan-Japan Relations: Continuity and Change in Economic Relations and Security Interests (London & New York: Routledge, 2008). He had been Head of Department of International Relations at Preston University, Islamabad. Previously, he also worked for the Islamabad Policy Research Institute as Research Fellow (Japan & East Asia) during 2005-10. He also worked as Economic Analyst/Adviser for Korean multinational Daewoo in Pakistan and carried out mega commercial projects inter-alia the M-2 Motorway project, Daewoo Express Bus, & Daewoo City Bus in Lahore as its pioneer.

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The Fight Against Terror

Where does our nation’s failure lie? We must at last confess that we could not sincerely fight the war on terror within our borders....

Japan Post-Election

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is backed again. Nationalism and Abenomics, a recipe of his growth-led strategy, will continue for the...

Japan’s snap election

The traditional ruling party, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), under Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, apparently failed on three fronts. Namely: boosting of the economy...

Transparent foreign investment

Foreign investment spurs development. A resulted-oriented foreign investment must give full control of assets to local businessmen and people as suggested by the World...

APEC at Beijing

China has been drawing the world’s attention. It has now turned into the land of emerging opportunities. China could influence and alter outside strategies,...

How one of the region’s lingering territorial disputes can come to an end

Japan’s neighbourhood is intractable. Cold War legacy severely affects it even today. It has been confronting with post-war territorial disputes with the Russian Federation,...

From ADB to AIIB

Dream comes true and it is an Asian dream because it is an Asian century. Another Asian bank has been established after the Asian...

China in Afghanistan

Bringing peace in Afghanistan is a challenge for many countries, especially those bordering Afghanistan. It is only the 76km Wakhan’s narrow strip that connects...