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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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In-House meeting with Chinese Delegation from CICIR

The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) held an In-House discussion on April 20, 2016 with a five-member delegation from the China Institutes of...

Press Release – In-House discussion with a 3-member delegation from the Golden Ring Economic...

Press Release May 18, 2016 The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) hosted an In-House discussion today with a 3-member delegation from the Golden Ring Economic...

The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran. A Travel Companion. Jonathan Tucker. London:...

The ancient Silk Road is attracting renewed attention. In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled his action plan to speedily develop Asian economies by...

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrialisation to the Globalisation of Democracy. Francis...

Democracy promotes globalisation and human societies have much transformed since Greek philosophers floated ideas of political order. Since then, political thinking has had a...

Mounting Tension on the Korean Peninsula

Introduction The strategic situation on the Korean Peninsula is highly tense mainly because of the nuclear and missile tests conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic...

Report- In-House Meeting with Six-Member Chinese Delegation from IDCPC

The Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad hosted an In-House Meeting on March 15, 2016 with six-member delegation from the International Department of the Communist...

In-house meeting with a six-member delegation from IDCPC (Press Release)

Press Release  March 15, 2016  The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) held an in-house discussion today with a six-member delegation from the International Department of...

China’s Middle East Policy: President Xi Jinping’s Recent Visits

China’s Middle East policy is driven by a genuine desire for peace and security in the region. It is also underpinned by China's growing...

How to Remove Misperceptions Surrounding the CPEC?

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a full spectrum mega-project to transform the economic landscape of Pakistan. The project is not any province-specific; rather...

The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014. Carlotta Gall. Gurgaon: Penguin Books, 2014. Pp....

Even as America wraps up its ‘long war’ in Afghanistan, it has failed to completely wipe out the Al-Qaeda and other terrorist outfits operating...