Dr. Noor Mohammad Sarker

Non-resident Fellow of RCAS

Email: nmsrdu@gmail.com

Dr. Noor Mohammad Sarker is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Sociology (PSS), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS), North South University (NSU), Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is also a Non-resident Fellow (Honorary) of the Hong Kong Research Center for Asian Studies (RCAS), China. Dr. Noor obtained his PhD from the School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, China. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s in International Relations from the University of Dhaka.

Before joining as a Full Time Faculty at NSU, Dr. Noor worked as a Research Fellow (International Affairs Division) at Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA), Dhaka. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences (YASS) in Kunming, China, in 2015. He was also an Associate Research Consultant at the Centre for Genocide Studies (CGS), University of Dhaka. In his professional career, Dr. Sarker worked with a number of prestigious research organizations in Bangladesh and abroad, including Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS), Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI), Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), and the Dexis Consulting Group, Washington D.C., USA.

Dr. Noor’s latest publications include “A Study on the Key Elements of Bangladesh's Vaccine Diplomacy during COVID-19”, [co-authored with Sourav Ghosh] published in the SAGE Journal of Asian and African Studies (2023); “Bangladesh–China Maritime Security Cooperation: A Search for New Opportunities under the ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative,” published in the book titled China and South Asia: Changing Regional Dynamics, Development and Power Play, edited by Rajiv Ranjan and Guo Changgang (Routledge, 2022); “A Neo-liberalist Account of China-Bangladesh Bilateral Cooperation under the ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative,” [co-authored with Sultana Yesmin] published in the Journal of Asia Social Science [South Korea], (2020); “Securing the Development: the Nature of Security Threats and Responses in BCIM-EC,” published in the Journal of International Affairs (BILIA, 2016); “Intelligence Failure in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis” [co-authored with ASM Ali Ashraf], published in the book titled Intelligence, National Security and Foreign Policy: A South Asian Narrative (BILIA and the Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka, 2016).

His research interests are broadly in security and strategic studies, foreign policy and diplomacy, theories of international relations, geopolitics of the Indian Ocean Region, maritime security, international relations of small states, multilaterlism in the post-Cold War era, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), regionalism and sub-regionalism in South and East Asia, South Asian affairs, East Asian affairs and Bangladesh-China relations.

Profile: https://www.northsouth.edu/faculty-members/shss/pss/noor-mohammad-sarker.html 

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Google Scholars: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DXF2WRsAAAAJ&hl=en 

Academia.edu: https://pgs-southasia.academia.edu/DrNoorMohammadSarker 

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Noor-Sarker 

ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3219-6533

Recent Publications

China’s Security Cooperation with Bangladesh and Pakistan in the Context of‘Belt and Road Initiative'

A Study on the Key Elements of Bangladesh’s Vaccine Diplomacy During COVID-19