8 Jul 04 - Round Table Discussion - Professor Mohammed Ayoob

Mohammed Ayoob is University Distinguished Professor of International Relations at James Madison College, Michigan State University. A specialist on conflict and security in the Third World, his publications on the subject have included conceptual essays as well as case studies dealing with South Asia, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, and Southeast Asia. He has been awarded fellowships and research grants from the Ford, Rockefeller, MacArthur, and MSU Foundations, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. He has acted as a consultant to the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty; the High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change appointed by the UN Secretary General; and the Ford Foundation. He has held faculty appointments at the Australian National University and Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, and visiting appointments at Columbia, Sydney, Princeton, Oxford, and Brown Universities and at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. He has authored, co-authored, or edited 11 books and published approximately 80 research papers and scholarly articles in leading journals including World Politics, International Studies Review, Foreign Policy, and Survival. His latest book is The Third World Security Predicament: State Making, Regional Conflict, and the International System (Lynne Rienner, 1995).