J. MOHAN MALIK, Ph.D.

PROFESSOR

Area of Expertise - Asian Geopolitics & Proliferation

• Biography
  

• Publications

Dr. Mohan Malik came to the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in February 2001 from Deakin University in Australia where he was Director of the postgraduate Defense Studies Program. He obtained his Ph.D. in International Relations from the Australian National University, M.Phil in Chinese Studies from Delhi University and Advanced Diploma in Chinese language from Beijing University. He is a trained Sinologist and has broad research interests in Asian Geopolitics, China’s Asia strategy, and nuclear proliferation in the Asia-Pacific. Dr. Malik has lectured at the Australian Joint Services Staff College, Warfare Studies Center, and Australian Defense College and has held Visiting Fellowships at a number of strategic policy “think-tanks” in Asia, Europe and the United States.

Dr. Malik is the author of China and India as Global Powers: Back to the Future? (forthcoming), Dragon on Terrorism (U.S. Army War College, 2002), The Gulf War: Australia’s Role and Asian-Pacific Responses (Strategic and Defense Studies Center/ANU Press, 1992), co-editor of Religious Radicalism and Security in South Asia (APCSS, Honolulu, 2004), and editor of Australia’s Security in the 21st Century (Allen and Unwin, 1999), The Future Battlefield (Deakin University Press and Directorate of Army Research and Analysis, 1997), and the three volumes on Asian Defense Policies (Deakin University Press, 1994). He has contributed numerous chapters to books and published over 200 articles on Asian-Pacific security issues in journals such as Asian Affairs, Asian Survey, Arms Control, Asia-Pacific Defense Reporter, Australian Journal of International Affairs, BR Monitor, China Quarterly, China Report, China Brief, Comparative Strategy, Contemporary Security Policy, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Current Affairs Bulletin, Defense and Foreign Affairs, Encyclopedia Britannica, Issues and Studies, Jane’s Sentinel, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Orbis, Pacific Affairs, Pacifica Review, Parameters, Strategic Digest, Strategic Policy, The World Today, and World Policy Journal. He has also written for a number of newspapers and news magazines, most notably International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, The Australian, Power & Interest News Report, Asia Times, YaleGlobal Online, Guanxi: The China Letter, Force, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, The Hindustan Times, Pakistan Today, and The Pioneer.

Dr. Malik has testified before the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, the Australian Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade and also done consultancy work for the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Australian Department of Defense (Army), and the UK-based Jane’s Information Group. He has been awarded the Australian Department of Defense Fellowship twice in 1991 and 1998. During 1998-2000, he was a member of the Australian Foreign Minister’s National Consultative Committee on Peace & Disarmament (NCCPD) and Australian Committee on Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (AUS-CSCAP).

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PUBLICATIONS

APCSS Publications & Papers

• India-China @ 60: The Great Game
• India-China Relations
• China and the East Asian Summit:  More Discord than Accord
• Regional Reverberations from Regime Shake-up in Rangoon 
• The China Factor In the India-Pakistan Conflict 
• Religious Radicalism and Security in South Asia
• Australia and the United States 2004-2005: All the Way with the U.S.A.?
• India-China Relations: Giants Stir, Cooperate and Compete
• Eyeing the Dragon: India’s China Debate
• High Hopes: India’s Response to U.S. Security Policies

External Publications: 2007-2009

I. Chapters in Edited Books:

1.                  “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization” in Sumit Ganguly, Andrew Scobell and Joseph Liow (eds), The Handbook of Asian Security Studies (Routledge, 2009, Forthcoming)

2.                   “Resolving the Burma Imbroglio” in Robert Wirsing and Ehsan Ahrari
(eds), Fixing Fractured Nations (Palgrave, 2009, Forthcoming).

3.                  “The EAC & the Role of External Powers,” in Aileen S.P. Baviera (ed), Regional Security in East Asia: Challenges to Cooperation and
Community Building (Manila: Asian Center, University of the Philippines Press, 2008), pp. 171-186.

4.                  “As China Rises, India Stirs,” in Harsh V. Pant (ed),
Indian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2009), pp.163-191.

5.                  “India’s Response to China’s Rise,” Chapter 9, in Kevin J. Cooney and Yoichiro Sato (eds), The Rise of China and International Security:
America and Asia Respond (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), pp.177-212.

6.                  “The China-Pakistan Nexus” in Wilson John (ed), Pakistan: The Struggle Within, (Pearson Longman 2009), pp. 157-197.

7.                  “WMD Proliferation: the Nexus between State, Nonstate, and Antistate Actors,” in Richmond M. Lloyd (ed), Economics and Maritime Strategy: Implications for the 21^st Century (Newport, RI: U.S. Naval War College, 2007), pp. 91-102.

II: Articles in Refereed Research Journals:
 

1.                  “The East Asian Community and the Role of External Powers: Ensuring Asian Multilateralism is not Shanghaied,” The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis [SOUTH KOREA], Vol. XIX, No. 4, Winter, 2007, pp. 29-50

<http://www.kida.re.kr/data/2008/01/25/07_04_02.pdf>

2.                   “Australia, America and Asia,” Pacific Affairs [CANADA], Vol. 79, No. 4, Winter 2006-07, pp. 587-595.

III. Encyclopedia Entries/Chapters:

1.         “India-China Relations,” in Karen Christensen & Chris Gauthier (eds), Berkshire Encyclopedia of China (A Berkshire Reference Works, New York, 2009), pp. 1143-1150.

2.         “Myanmar (Burma)” in Encyclopaedia Britannica: Year 2009 Book of the Year (Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., Chicago & London, Forthcoming 2009).

3.         “Myanmar (Burma)” in Encyclopaedia Britannica: Year 2008 Book of the Year (Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., Chicago & London, 2008), pp. 439-440.

4.         “Myanmar (Burma)” in Encyclopaedia Britannica: Year 2007 Book of the Year (Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., Chicago & London, 2007), p. 436.
 

IV. Newsmagazine Articles:

1.  “The Dragon Rises, the Elephant Stirs,” Guanxi: The China Letter, Vol. 2, Issue 8, December 2007, pp. 1, 5-8.
2. "Chinese conundrum: Distant Dream,” Force, Vol. 4, No. 2, October 2007, pp. 48-50.

 V. Internet Articles:

1.                  “War Talk: Perceptual Gaps in “Chindia” Relations,” China Brief, Vol. IX, Issue 20, October 7, 2009, pp. 6-9<http://www.jamestown.org/uploads/media/cb_009_52.pdf>

2.                   “China: Stand on Arunachal reflects assertive foreign policy,” Chennai Centre for China Studies, C3S Paper No. 290, June 14, 2009. <http://www.c3sindia.org/india/593>

3.                  “India-China Competition Revealed in Ongoing Border Disputes,
”The Power & Interest News Report, October 9, 2007. <http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=695&language_id=1>