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Yemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional StabilityYemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional Stability
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Yemen presents a 'perfect storm' of problems for Western governments confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically...

Key Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack ObamaKey Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack Obama
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Chatham House experts offer their perspectives on the key foreign policy and economic challenges facing the new administration. The following...

Economic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' MeasuresEconomic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' Measures
Wednesday 15 October 2008
A new paper by Chatham House says that the once-in-a-century economic meltdown means that OECD countries' simultaneous collapse in...

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,...

Yemen: Fear of Failure
November, 2008
Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important...

 

 

Dr Farzana Shaikh

Dr Farzana Shaikh

Associate Fellow, Asia Programme

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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)