Prof. Rashed Uz Zaman

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Prof. Rashed Uz Zaman

Non-resident Senior Fellow of RCAS

E-mail: rashed@du.ac.bd

Background

Education

Ph.D. of Strategic Studies and International Relations, University of Reading, 2007.
Master of Security Studies, University of Hull, 2000.
Master of International Relations, University of Dhaka, 1997.
Bachelor of International Relations, University of Dhaka, 1995.

Previous Academic Experience

Professor of International Relations in University of Dhaka (2013-).
Chairman of Department of International Relation in University of Dhaka (2018-2019).

Teaching

International Relations since 1919
Strategic Studies
Research Methodology
State, Civil Society and Human Rights
Advanced Theories of International Relations
International Security
U.S. Affairs
Governance and Development

Research

Research Interests

International Relations
Strategic Studies
South Asian Affairs

Publications

1. “The shape of the international order: the case study of AUKUS”, Stosunki Miedzynarodowe–International

Relations, 2:6, 2022. https://doi.org/10.12688/stomiedintrelat.17420.1.

2. “From Peacekeeping to Peace Enforcement Operations: What Next?” in Imtiaz A. Hussain (ed.), Global-

Local Tradeoffs, Order-Disorder Consequences–State no more an Island? (London: Palgrave Macmillan, June 2022, forthcoming).

3. “Bangladesh’s Quest for Development and the Sino-Indian Contestation” in Nian Peng, Ghulam Ali and Yi Zhang

(eds.), Crossing the Himalayas, Buddhist Ties, Regional Integration and Great-Power Rivalry (Singapore: Springer

Nature, December 2021).

4. “Coping with Rising China: Responses of the Small States of South Asia” in Rajiv Ranjan and Guo Changgang

(eds.), China and South Asia, Changing Regional Dynamics, Development and Power Play (Routledge India:

November 2021).

5. “Disciplinary History of International Relations (IR) in South Asia.” in the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of

International Studies. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.622 (forthcoming).

6. “Coping with the Dragon: Small States of South Asia and Their Foreign Policy Responses to China’s Rise”, Stosunki

Miedzynarodowe–International Relations, 56:2, 2020.

7. “Bangladesh Police in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and Capacity Building: Striving for Perfection in an

Imperfect World!", Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15:1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paz004.

8. “‘Not business as usual’: changing realities and the transformations in peace operations”, Studia Politologiczne, 56,

June 2020.

9. “Preventing Violent Extremism: A Peacebuilding Perspective” in A. K. M. Abdur Rahman (ed.), Bangladesh in

International Peacebuilding: Discourses from Japan and Beyond (Dhaka: Bangladesh Institute of International and

Strategic Studies and Japan Foundation: Pathak Shamabesh, April 2019).

10. “Indian Political Realism” in Robert Schuett and Miles Hollingworth (eds.), Edinburgh Companion to Political

Realism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018).

11. “Bangladesh and United Nations Peacekeeping Missions: The Quest for a National Policy to Meet the Challenge of

Uncertainty”, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 62:2, December 2017.

12. “Can Bangladesh turn its burdensome geography into a blessing?”, East Asia Forum, September 1,

2017.http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2017/09/01/can-bangladesh-tburdensome-geography-into-a-blessing/

13. “The Contribution of Commonwealth Armed Forces In UN Peacekeeping Missions: The Case of Bangladesh”, The

Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 106:4, 2017. DOI:

10.1080/00358533.2017.1352152.

14. “South Asian Regionalism and UN Peacekeeping Missions: A Case of ‘and never the twain shall meet’?”, in

Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch (eds.), Peacekeeping and the Asia-Pacific (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2016).

15. “Strategic Culture in South Asia: Kautilyan Sempiternity” in Arvind Gupta, P. K. Gautam and Saurabh Mishra (eds),

Indigenous Historical Knowledge: Kautilya and his Vocabulary, Part 3, (New Delhi: IDSA, 2016).

16. “UN Peacekeeping Mission” in Ali Riaz and Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman (eds.), Routledge Handbook of

Contemporary Bangladesh (Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2016).

17. “South Asian Regionalism and UN Peacekeeping Missions: A Case of ‘and never the twain shall meet’?”, Journal of

International Peacekeeping, 19:3-4, 2015.

18. “Building Response Capacity of Landpowers for Issues of Environmental Security” , BIISS Journal, Special issue

on Pacific Armies Management Seminar XXXVIII, June 2015.

19. “Cooperation between TCCs and the UN; South Asia Cooperation; Peacebuilding and NGOs”, in Adam Smith and

Richard Gowan (eds.), What Needs to Change in UN Peace Operations? An expert briefing book prepared for the

High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (New York: Center on International Cooperation & International

Peace Institute, 2014).

20. “Bangladesh’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping Missions and Challenges for Civil-Military Relations: A Case for

Concordance Theory”, International Peacekeeping, 21:3, 2014. DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2014.938913.

21. “The Rise of China and India: An inevitable confrontation at the Indian Ocean?” in Bhuian Md. Monoar Kabir (ed.)

Sino-South Asian Relations: Continuity and Change (Chittagong: Chittagong University, 2014).

22. "Zaman R: Kautilya and Strategy", in Selin H. (ed.) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology and

Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (Verlag Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2014).

23. “Bangladesh” in Paul Williams and Alex J. Bellamy (eds.), Providing Peacekeepers: The Politics, Challenges and,

Future of United Nations Peacekeeping Contributions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

24. “Bengal Terrorism and ambiguity of the Bengali Muslims”, in Jussi M. Hanhimaki and Bernhard Blumenau (eds.),

An International History of Terrorism: Western and non-Western experiences (London and New York: Routledge,

2013).

25. “Bangladesh-Between Terrorism, Identity and Illiberal Democracy: The unfolding of a tragic saga”, Perceptions, 17,

2012.

26. “Strategic Culture: A ‘Cultural’ Understanding of War”, Comparative Strategy, 28:1, 2009.

27. “Indian Strategic Culture and India’s Nuclear Policy”, Journal of The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 53:2, December

2008.

28. “Kautilya: The Indian Strategic Thinker and Indian Strategic Culture”, Comparative Strategy, 25:3, July 2006.

29. “Study of International Relations: Is the Paradigm Shifting?”, Journal of The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 47:2,

December 2002.

30. “WMD Terrorism in South Asia: Trends and Implication”, Perceptions, 7:3, September-November 2002.

31. “The Middle East Peace Process: Dialectics of Current Uprising, Israeli Politics and Power Relations”, Journal of

the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 46:2, December 2001.

32. “The Weaponization of Terrorism: Real Danger or False Alarms?” Theoretical Perspectives, 7-8, 2000-2001.

33. “An Analysis of the Ethnic Problem in Central Asia”, Dhaka Viswavidyalay Patrika, 66, February 2000.

34. “The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention: The case of French Involvement in Rwanda”, Journal of International

Relations, 7:1-2, July-June 1999-2000.

35. “The Debt Issue Revisited”, Social Science Review, 16:1, 1999.

Awards

South Asian University Travel Grant for speaking at the Department of International Relations, South Asian University, India, on 2 – 3 May 2018.
William J. Fulbright Lecturing Grant for teaching at the Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, United States of America, from 15 August 2012 to 14 December 2012.
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for conducting post-doctoral research at the University of Erfurt, Germany, from 01 November 2009 to 31 January 2011.
H. B. Earhart Fellowship in International Security for pursuing Doctor of Philosophy degree in International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, United Kingdom, during the academic years 2004-2007.
Study of the United States Institute (formerly offered under the Fulbright programme) on Foreign Policy conducted by the American Studies Institute, at the Walker Institute of International Studies, University of South Carolina, United States of America, from 12 June to 26 July 2003.
British Chevening Scholarship for pursuing Master of Arts degree in Security Studies at the University of Hull, United Kingdom, during the academic year 1998-1999.
Dhaka University Merit Scholarship for pursuing a Master of Social Sciences degree in International Relations at the University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, during the academic year 1993-1994.

Membership

Associate Editor, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Humanities)

Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, 2018-2019

Member, Board of Governors

Bangladesh Peacebuilding Centre, Dhaka.

Member

The International Institute of International Studies (IISS), London.

Life Member

Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

General Secretary

Bangladesh Association for American Studies (BAAS)

Member

Fulbright Alumni Association of Bangladesh (FAAB)

Member, General Body and Executive Committee

Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU).

Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Member

Chevening Society Bangladesh.

Alumni Association of Chevening Scholars in Bangladesh.

Recent Publications