MES Research Talk - Dr. S. M. Ali, “Possibilities for Human-Centric U.S.-China Collaboration in Pakistan”

This lecture is part of the AY23 Middle East Studies (MES) Research Talks series.

The implications of great power competition are increasingly apparent across South Asia, especially within the Indian Subcontinent where the two largest nuclear armed nations in South Asia, Pakistan and India, are locked in a protracted rivalry.  Rather than primarily relying on India’s simultaneous ability to engage in adversarial competition with China and to wean smaller South Asian states away from Chinese influence, the U.S. needs to invest in alternative strategies to contend with the growing Chinese footprint in South Asia.  The U.S. is well placed to leverage its long-standing relationship with Pakistan to explore opportunities to promote human-centric security goals which are in the national interests of both the global powers and which can also have a positive impact on much needed regional stabilization within South Asia.

Dr. S. M. Ali is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.  He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Melbourne.  He has extensive on the ground experience working on development issues with government and non-government organizations.  He teaches courses on South Asian security, human security, and different research methods at American University, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University.  He has previously taught courses on the same subjects at George Washington University, George Mason University, and in universities in Australia and Pakistan.

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