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Tahir Amin (طاہر امین, born 13 March 1952) is a Pakistani political scientist who is appointed as Vice Chancellor Bahauddin Zakariya University, in Multan, Pakistan.
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- BZU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Tahir Amin Interview to News Channel
- Books and monographs
- Scholarly articles
- Reception
- References
Previously, he was the Iqbal Chair at the Centre for International Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (c.1997-2001, succeeding Akbar S. Ahmed, followed by Tahir Kamran). He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988), a Masters in International Relations from Carleton University, Canada (1978), and a M.Sc. in International Relations from Quaid-i-Azam University (1976). He received a King Faisal Scholarship to study at MIT, and a Fulbright Award at Harvard University (1992), where he worked on a research project on "Reactions of the Non-Western world to the Thesis of the Clash of Civilizations by Samuel Huntington." He was a visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute of International Studies, Brown University, Providence, USA (1996), and at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) at Harvard University.
Amin is a Member of the Board of Governors at the National Institute of Pakistan Studies, at the National Institute of History Commission, and at the Area Study Center for North America and Africa, all at Quaid-i-Azam University.
His research focuses on questions of world order, Pakistan's foreign relations, domestic politics of Pakistan, Kashmir, terrorism, and the politics of South and Central Asia.
BZU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr Tahir Amin Interview to News Channel
Books and monographs
Published monographs include Mass Resistance in Kashmir: Origins, Evolution, Options (Islamabad: Institute of Policy Studies 1995), Nationalism and Internationalism in Liberalism, Marxism and Islam (Islamabad: International Institute of Islamic Thought 1992), Ethno-National Movements of Pakistan: Domestic and International Factors (Islamabad: Institute of Policy Studies 1989), Afghanistan Crisis: Implications and Options for Muslim World, Iran and Pakistan (Islamabad: Institute of Policy Studies, 1982), and Tashkent Declaration: Third Party’s Role in the Resolution of Conflict (Islamabad: Institute of Strategic Studies, 1980).
Scholarly articles
He has written more than two dozen peer-reviewed articles or chapters, including:
Reception
Scholar Reeta Tremblay from Concordia University notes in a scholarly review of Mass Resistance in Kashmir, that despite a claim to following a "social-scientific method", the book suffers from nationalist bias with arguments and counterarguments supported by "conjectural and emotional analysis". She also finds it most worrisome that Amin paints the Kashmir resistance movement as fundamentally Islamic, seeking Kashmir's integration with Pakistan. Amin also argues that Pakistan must actively support the resistance by offering military assistance, orchestrate economic sanctions against India and shape the resistance into a modern guerrilla warfare "capable of inflicting lethal blows to the Indian army". The history of Kashmir is presented as a Muslim history without any attention to the alternative versions of history by the Kashmiri Pandits. In examining the causes of the movement, she notes that Amin takes no account of the military training of the militants by the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan and other groups in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. She finds Amin's claim that the mobilisation of Kashmiris was achieved "in the name of Islam" rather than that of nationalism, as being flawed and unsubstantiated.