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Dr Ejaz Hussain

Ejaz Hussain was born on 2nd April, 1981 in Pakistan.

Education & Career

Ejaz holds a PhD in Political Science from Heidelberg University (2010). In addition, he obtained M.Sc in International Relations from Quaid-i-Azam University (2003) and an M.A. in Asian Studies from Lund University, Sweden (2006). Moreover, as a former DAAD fellow he was affiliated with South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, where his research focused on politics and the state in Pakistan. In addition, Hussain has contributed on Pakistan’s domestic politics and its impact on the foreign policy in State and Foreign Policy in South Asia (2010). Besides, Hussain was on the panel of IP-Euroculture held in 2007 at Marc Bloch University Strasbourg, France. Previously, the author has served at COMSATS and Iqra University, Islamabad. Currently, he is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) Lahore.

Research Interests

▪ Civil-Military Relations (CMR)

▪ Comparative Politics

▪ Politics and Foreign Policy of Pakistan

▪ Politics and/of Islam

▪ Political Science/IR Theory

▪ Social Science Methodology

Courses Taught

Introduction to Political Science (PLSC101)

Pakistan Government: National (PLSC102)

Pakistan Studies (HUM111)

International Relations (HUM221)

Foreign Policy Analysis (PLSC412)

Islam and Modernity (PLSC402)

Islam and International Relations (DS391/IR606)

Publications

Hussain, Ejaz. Forthcoming. Military Agency, Politics and the State in Pakistan. New Delhi: Samskriti.

Hussain, Ejaz. Forthcoming. ‘Pakistan: Civil-Military Relations in a Post-colonial State’, Journal of Power, Conflict and Democracy in South and Southeast Asia.

Hussain, Ejaz. 2010. ‘Politics and Foreign Policy in Pakistan’, in Jivanta Schöttli and Siegfried O. Wolf (ed.) State and Foreign Policy in South Asia, pp.271-301. New Delhi: Samskriti.

Hussain, Ejaz. 2010. Military Agency, Politics and the State: The Case of Pakistan. Doctoral Dissertation published by Heidelberg University. Available from http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/volltexte/2010/10947/pdf/Thesis. Online_Pub.5.8.10.pdf

Hussain, Ejaz. 2006. Pakistan: Politics in a Post-Colonial State. M.A. Thesis published by Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Available from http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=24923&postid=1326357

Fellowship and Grants

▪ DAAD Fellow, 2006-2010 (PKZ: A/05/52760). Financial worth (ca. 65,000 euro) ▪ Travel Grant by the DAAD for a field-visit to Pakistan, February-April, 2008. (2,000 euro)

▪ Travel and Accommodation Grant by Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France, 12-13 of June, 2007. (500 euro)

Languages

Knows English,Urdu,Punjabi and German well,and Swedish to a basic level!