MOHAN MALIK, Ph.D.

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 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 21^st 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 170 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 The International Herald Tribune, The Japan Times, The Australian, The Age, The Power & Interest News Report, Asia Times, YaleGlobal Online, Guanxi: The China Letter, Force, The 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

Other Publications

Mohan Malik, "The East Asia Community and the Role of External Powers: Ensuring Asian Multilateralism is not Shanghaied," The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Vol. XIX, No. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 29–50. http://www.kida.re.kr/data/2008/01/25/07_04_02.pdf

"The Dragon Rises, the Elephant Stirs" Guanxi: The China Letter.

“Security Council Reform: China Signals Its Veto,” WORLD POLICY JOURNAL, Volume XXII, No 1, Spring 2005
http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/articles/wpj05-sp/malik.html

Mohan Malik THE CHINA FACTOR IN AUSTRALIA-U.S. RELATIONS CHINA BRIEF Volume 5, Issue 8 (April 12, 2005) http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?
volume_id=408&issue_id=3298&article_id=2369588

Mohan Malik REGIME SHAKE-UP IN RANGOON : A SETBACK FOR BEIJING ?
CHINA BRIEF Volume 5, Issue 2 (January 18, 2005)
http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=408&issue_id=3201&article_id=2369110

“A.Q. Khan’s China Connection,” China Brief, Vol. IV, Issue 9, April 29, 2004, pp. 3-5. http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?v
olume_id=395&issue_id=2939&article_id=236639

Book:

Dragon on Terrorism: Assessing China’s Tactical Gains and Strategic Losses
Post-September 11 (Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, PA, October 2002),
pp. 63. ISBN 1-58487-103-2 <http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi/pubs/2002/dragon/dragon.htm>

Book Chapters:

“The Stability of Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia: The Clash between State and
Anti-State Actors,” in Satu Limaye, Robert Wirsing and Mohan Malik (eds),
Religion and Security in South Asia Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu , 2004),
pp. 321-350. http://www.apcss.org/Publications/Edited%20Volumes/
ReligiousRadicalism/ReligiousRadicalism.htm

“India and China : Bound to Collide?” in P. R. Kumaraswamy (ed),
Security Beyond Survival New Delhi and London: Sage Publications Inc., 2004), pp. 127-165.

“Myanmar (Burma)” in Encyclopaedia Britannica: Year 2004 Book of the Year
(Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., Chicago & London, 2004), p. 440.

“China’s Response to the War on Terrorism,” in Yu Chang-sen (ed),
Anti-Terrorism and Asia-Pacific Security, (Zhongshan Daxue Yatai Yanjiu Zhongxin,
Heavenly Horse Publishing Co., Hong Kong , 2003), pp. 65-81.

“Myanmar (Burma )” in Encyclopaedia Britannica: Year 2003 Book of the Year
(Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., Chicago & London , 2003), pp. 471-472.

“Nuclear Arms in Asia,” in David Levinson and Karen Christensen (eds),
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (A Berkshire Reference Works, Charles Scribner Sons,
New York, US, Volume 4, 2002), pp. 368-371.

“China-India Relations,” in David Levinson and Karen Christensen (eds),
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (A Berkshire Reference Works, Charles Scribner Sons,
New York, US, Volume 2, 2002), pp. 1-5.

“Myanmar Burma)” in Encyclopaedia Britannica: Year in Review 2001
(Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., Chicago & London, 2002), p. 468.

"Australia and China: Divergence and Convergence of Interests," in James Cotton
and John Ravenhill (eds), Australia in World Affairs 1996-2000
(Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 109-129.

"Chinese Perspectives on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Asian Security,"
in Marianne Hanson and Carl Ungerer (eds), The Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation
(NSW: Allen & Unwin, October 2001), pp. 132-157.

Referred Research Journal Articles:

"The East Asia Community and the Role of External Powers: Ensuring Asian Multilateralism is not Shanghaied" for the Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, January 2008

"The Dragon Rises, the Elephant Stirs" for Guanxi: The China Letter.

“Security Council Reform: China Signals Its Veto,” World Policy Journal [USA],
Vol. XXII, No. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 19-29.

“The Age of Nuclear Revelations: Promises, Pitfalls and Perils,”
The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis [SOUTH KOREA], Vol. XVI, No. 1, Winter 2006, Forthcoming.

“Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia: The Clash between State and Anti-State Actors,”
Asian Affairs [US], Vol. 30, No. 3, Fall 2003, pp. 177-199.

“High Hopes: India’s Response to U.S. Security Policies,” Asian Affairs,
Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 2003, pp. 104-112.

“The Proliferation Axis: Beijing-Islamabad-Pyongyang,”
The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Vol. XV, No. 1, Spring 2003, pp. 57-100.

“The China Factor in the India-Pakistan Conflict,”
Parameters: U.S. Army War Quarterly [US], Vol. 33, No.1, Spring 2003, pp. 35-50. <http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/03spring/malik.htm>

“China, Pakistan and India: Nervous Neighbours,” The World Today [UK ],
Vol. 58, No. 10, October 2002, pp. 20-23.

“Zhou, Mao, and Nixon’s 1972 Conversations on India,”
Issues & Studies: An International Quarterly on China, Taiwan & East Asian Affairs
[TAIWAN], Vol. 38, No. 3, September 2002, pp. 184-219.

“Dragon on Terrorism: Assessing China’s Tactical Gains and Strategic Losses
After 11 September,” Contemporary Southeast Asia SINGAPORE ], Vol. 24, No. 2,
August 2002, pp. 252-293.

“Missile Defence shield set to boost US-India partnership,”
Jane’s Intelligence Review [UK], Vol. 13, No. 6, June 2001, pp. 50-51.

“South Asia in China’s Foreign Relations,” Pacifica Review [AUST],
Vol.13, No.1, February 2001, pp. 73-90.

“Australia-China Relations 1996-2000,” Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
(Yatai Yanjiu) CHINA, No. 1, 2001, pp. 7-10. IN CHINESE

Last updated: 06/23/2008