Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
Comparative Politics, International Relations and Political Theory
Office:聽467 Smith Hall
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Biography
Muqtedar Khan, PhD (Georgetown University, 2000) joined the Department in 2005. His areas of interest are Politics of the Middle East and South Asia, Political Islam, Islamic Political Thought, Islam in America, American Foreign Policy in the Muslim World and Good Governance. Professor Khan combines academic and policy orientation in his teaching philosophy and in his research.聽He was the founding director of the Islamic Studies Program at the 91原创 from 2007-2010. He was Fellow and Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution from 2003-2008.聽From 2017-2019 he served as the Academic Director of the State Department鈥檚 National Security Institute (SUSI) and from 2019-2021 he is serving as the Academic Director of the State Department鈥檚 American Foreign Policy Institute. His latest book聽Islam and Good Governance聽has received the 2019 excellence in scholarship award from AFMI and has been listed as one the best all time books in political philosophy by the nonfiction book portal聽.
Post-Orientalism and Geopolitics: Three Debates that Inform Islam and US Foreign Policy: youtube.com/watch?v=3mReCYNObdg