Draft:Rasul Bakhsh Rais

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Rasul Bakhsh Rais is a Pakistani political scientist, academic, and writer. He is a professor of Political Science in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) since 2002. His research areas include South Asia and security studies.

Early life and education

Rasul Bakhsh Rais was born in 1947 in Rajanpur, Punjab, British India. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of the Punjab in 1970, followed by a master of arts in political science from the same university in 1973. He completed his Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1981.

Career

Rais has held several fellowships, including the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley in 1984–85, the Hoover Institution Fellowship at Stanford University in 1985, and the Social Sciences Research Fellowship at Harvard University in 1988–89. He was the Distinguished Quaid-i-Azam Professor at Columbia University from 1991 to 1994, where he also received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Additionally, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at Wake Forest University in 1998–99.

Before joining LUMS, Rais was a professor of international relations and political science at Quaid-i-Azam University for 22 years, including over a decade as Director of the Area Study Centre.

Rais served as director general of the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad from August 2013 to December 2015.

Awards and recognition

• 2003: Pride of Performance
• 2009: Sitara-e-Imtiaz

Bibliography

• Rais, Rasul Bux (1987). The Indian Ocean and the superpowers: economic, political, and strategic perspectives. Totowa, N.J: Barnes & Noble. ISBN 978-0-389-20695-8.
• Rais, Rasul Bakhsh (1994). War without winners: Afghanistan's uncertain transition after the Cold War (1 ed.). Karachi: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-577535-8.
• Rais, Rasul Bakhsh (2009). Recovering the frontier state: war, ethnicity, and the state in Afghanistan. Lanham/Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-3701-7.
• Rais, Rasul Bakhsh (2017). Imagining Pakistan: modernism, state, and the politics of Islamic revival. Lanham (Md.): Lexington books. ISBN 978-1-4985-5395-7.
• Rais, Rasul Bux (2017). Islam, ethnicity, and power politics: constructing Pakistan's national identity (1 ed.). Karachi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-940759-0.