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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 New Great Game: China and South and Central Asia in the Era of...

There are numbers of volumes on the ‘Great Game’ in Central Asia highlighting the dominant role of certain powers. The rising China attracts the...

Comment-The Flagging Chinese Leverage on North Korea

 " How the Hermit Kingdom Can Be Changed " President Donald Trump has ordered the US army to ‘stand ready’ for the fight against...

Comment-Deepening Pak-Japan Ties

Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, Kazuyuki Yamazaki, headed the Japanese delegation to Pakistan on 3 October to participate at the 10th...

Comment – All is Illuminating and Revealing: Beijing-Tokyo Warming Up Ties

The 45th anniversary of the China-Japan diplomatic opening made a great comeback this year. A full-fledged rapprochement between the two nations is in the...

Comment-All That Glitters Is Not Democracy

" Democracy is preferable to all other systems    of government known to human history, and it      should be flourished" Democracy is not a...

Comment-The Sino-Japanese Normalization

"Kakuei Tanaka is credited with being the pioneer of dialogue with the Middle Kingdom. There is a lesson here for today’s leaders"  Today marks the...

Issue Brief on “China-Japan: Towards Normalisation”

The diplomatic ties between China and Japan, the two powerful economic nations in East Asia, have recently began moving towards a positive diplomatic trajectory...

Comment-The Indo-Japanese Growing Bonds

Japan now totally pulls India’s lines on geo-strategic matters and commercial interests in the Asia-Pacific region. The two nations are too close now giving...

Comment-Pax Sinica

" Chinese are not creating a dividing-line between themselves and the rest of the Asians.  They are combining for a win-win for all." With the rise...

Comment-Rohingya Genocide

 A crime against humanity is taking place. Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority, mostly habited for centuries in the Rakhine State of Myanmar (formerly Burma)...