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Chatham House named No.1 non-US think tankChatham House named No.1 non-US think tank
Tuesday 6 January 2009
Chatham House has been named as the No. 1 think tank based outside of the United States in a...

Breaking the Nuclear Deadlock: Weak Economy is Iran's Achilles' HeelBreaking the Nuclear Deadlock: Weak Economy is Iran's Achilles' Heel
Wednesday 17 December 2008
'…..we have not exhausted our non-military options in confronting this threat; in many ways, we have yet to try...

Elections in Ghana: Tensions BuildElections in Ghana: Tensions Build
Tuesday 2 December 2008
President Kufuor has successfully promoted Ghana as a haven of political and economic stability but, as he comes to...

Iran: Breaking the Nuclear Deadlock
December, 2008
The report considers the ways in which the West can most effectively engage with Iran. It both analyses the...

Prospects for Georgian Civil Society
November, 2008
This is a summary of a meeting held at Chatham House on 10 November 2008.

Business and Human Rights: Closing the Gaps
November, 2008
This is a summary of the International Law Discussion Group meeting held on 6 November 2008 at Chatham House.

Reflections on Russia and the West
November, 2008
Those concerned with policy-making towards Russia must determine how best to listen to the country's changing conversation with itself,...

 

 

Dr Farzana Shaikh

Dr Farzana Shaikh

Associate Fellow, Asia Programme

Telephone:+44 (0)7780 580371 (mobile)
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Expertise

  • Pakistan
  • South Asian Islam
  • Bangladesh: politics, history and society
  • Afghanistan: politics and humanitarian issues

Projects

  • Forthcoming book titled, Making Sense of Pakistan (London and New York: Hurst and Columbia University Press, 2009)
  • Pakistan Study Group, Asia Programme, Chatham House, focusing on the theme of 'Unravelling Pakistan: Threats to Stability'

Recent Publications

  • Pakistan's Perilous Voyage, Current History, Vol 107, No. 712, November 2008, pp. 362-368
  • 'The Islamic bomb: myth or reality?' (published in Spanish as 'La Bomba Islamica: Mito o realidad?'), Culturas (special issue on Pakistan), Three Cultures Foundation, Seville, No. 1, 2008, pp. 86-96
  • 'From Islamisation to Shariatisation: cultural transnationalism in Pakistan', Third World Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2008, pp. 593-609
  • 'Pakistan's army will still be the final arbiter', The Independent on Sunday, 17 February 2008
  • 'Pakistan: Luck Running Out?', The World Today, Vol. 63, No. 12, December 2007, pp. 18-19
  • 'Battered Musharraf playing with fire', The Times, 11 July 2007
  • The shariatisation of Pakistani nationalism, Occasional Paper 29, April 2007, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • Pakistan's Foreign Policy Under Musharraf: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, with Owen Bennett Jones, Chatham House Briefing Paper, ASP BP 06/01, March 2006
  • 'India and Pakistan - The Earthquake: Peace Amid the Ruins', The World Today, 61, 12, December 2005, pp. 19-20
  • 'Pakistan and Israel: Across the Divide', The World Today, 61, 10, October 2005, p. 14
  • 'Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb: Beyond the Non-Proliferation Regime', International Affairs, 78, 1, January 2002, pp. 29-48

Books

  • Making Sense of Pakistan (London and New York: Hurst and Columbia University Press, April 2009)
  • Islam and Islamic Groups: a Worldwide Reference Guide, ed. (Harlow: Longman, 1992)
  • Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860-1947 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Experience

2005-Present Associate Fellow, Chatham House
2006-07 Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2003-08

Associate, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

2003

Guest Lecturer, University of Basle, Switzerland

2002-03

Lecturer in South Asian Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

2002

Guest Lecturer, University of Pavia, Italy

1997-Present

Consultant on South Asia for the Emergency and Security Services (ESS) of the UNHCR

1990-96

Managing editor for South Asia, Keesing's Record of World Events

1984-90 Research Fellow in Politics, Clare Hall, Cambridge
1983

PhD in Political Science, Columbia University, New York


Broadcast Experience

Extensive


Languages

French (not for broadcast)