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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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Xi Jinping: The Governance of China. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2014. Pp. 515. (Book...

China is fast emerging as a super power and the world’s largest economy, and according to some criteria it has even surpassed the US....

Showdown in the South China Sea

A new theatre is opened. The conflict is emerging in the name of “freedom of navigation” , where the US destroyer USS Lassen’s intrusion...

A new bi-polarity

Changing ground realities in the Asian theatre The world is fast reshaping. New centres of gravity are emerging. Regional re-grouping of like-minded policies is underway....

In-House Meeting with His Excellency Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus Valentine Rybakov (Press Release)

The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) held an in-house meeting with Republic of Belarus’s Deputy Foreign Minister, His Excellency Valentine Rybakov, today. He...

Japan’s Militarisation

Ever since the ban on Japan’s military and its use to settle international disputes after World War II, there has been serious debate about...

China’s Victory

Commonality of views strengthened the foundations of relations between Pakistan and China. A full harmonious relationship between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the...

Japan’s Remorse

Japan has had a very difficult past. Whitewash has not worked. War memories are not yet distant. The third generation has been facing a...

Public Talk on Pakistan-Japan relations (Press Release)

Ambassador and Plenipotentiary of Japan, H.E. Mr Hiroshi Inomata, gave a public talk on Pakistan-Japan relations at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad today...

Uproar at ASEAN

A new mess up is being created. A tussle is renewed. Maritime disputes in South China Sea are taking a new shape, where allies...