Notes about Contributors
Dr Timothy D Hoyt
Timothy D. Hoyt, Ph.D. is currently Director of Special Programs and Adjunct Professor for the National Security Studies Program of Georgetown University, in Washington, DC. He has taught graduate-level courses in national security, strategy, and international relations and coordinated political-military simulations for the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Dr. Hoyt received a Ph.D. in International Relations and Strategic Studies from Johns Hopkins University in 1997. His dissertation examined the relationship between national security policy and military-industrial development in India, Iraq, and Israel from 1945-1995. He has worked for the U.S. Department of State's Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command, and the Congressional Research Service's Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division, as well as the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Dr. Hoyt has written articles and papers on a variety of subjects, including the global diffusion of military technologies and practices, proliferation of strategic weapons in the developing world, the effectiveness of sanctions as a substitute for force in the international system, and regional security in the Middle East and South Asia.
Brigadier Shaheedul Anam Khan
Brigadier Shaheedul Anam Khan, is the Director General of the Bangladesh Institute for International and Strategic Studies. Commissioned in the army in 1968. Attended the Army Staff Course,Camberley, UK 1979, and the National Defence College, New Delhi,1988. Awarded 'Masters in Defence Studies' from NDC, New Delhi. Brig Khan has attended number of international Seminars, Conference and Symposia on Security including the 'Second Round of Dialogue on "Security in Asia"' organised by Monash University. Brig Khan has authored several articles for Seminars and International Journals including,"Security of Bangladesh in the 21st Century." " Nuclearisation of South Asia :Concerns of Non-nuclear States." "Security, Defence and Development." "Nuclearisation of South Asia: A view from Bangladesh." Brig Khan has been in his present appointment since Feb 1997.
Dr Mohan Malik
Mohan Malik is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Defence Studies Program at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. He has contributed several chapters to books and published over 60 articles on security issues in the Asia-Pacific in leading International Relations/Strategic Studies journals. Dr Malik is the author of The Gulf War: Australia's Role and Asian-Pacific Responses (Strategic and Defence Studies Centre/ANU Press, 1992), China and Nuclear Arms Control (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and Editor of the three volumes on Asian Defence Policies (Deakin University Press, 1994), The Future Battlefield (Deakin University Press, 1997), and Australia's Security in the 21st Century (Allen & Unwin, 1999). He has done consultancy work for the Australian Department of Defence, and the UK -based Jane's Information Group. Dr Malik has been awarded the Department of Defence Visiting Fellowship twice in 1991 and 1998 at the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, the Australian National University, Canberra. He is a member of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies and lectures regularly at the Australian Army Command and Staff College, Fort Queenscliff, Victoria.
Professor John McKay
John McKay John McKay is Director of the Monash Asia Institute and Director of the Australian APEC Study Centre. He was awarded undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Durham (UK ) and has held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Ohio State University. He has held teaching and research appointments at the University of Liverpool and the University of Dar es Salaam as well as at Monash University, and has undertaken visiting appointments at Clark University, the Australian National University, the University of Lund, the Expert Group in Regional Studies in Stockholm and the Korean Institute of International Studies. His current research is concerned with: The dynamics of economic and political change in North Korea. Industrial restructuring in Northeast Asia and the changing relationships between government and the private sector, especially in Korea and Taiwan. The relationships between rapid economic growth in Asia and social, political and demographic change. Government policies for technological change in Northeast Asia and the promotion of industrial competitiveness in sectors such as automobiles and electronics. Economic integration in the Asia-Pacific, and the development of APEC and other groupings in the region. The role of middle-sized powers, notably Australia and Korea, in the Asia-Pacific region. Professor McKay is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Korean Studies Centre, and coordinated the research team which produced for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade a major study entitled Korea to the Year 2000: Implications for Australia. He has also been heavily involved in �second-track� diplomacy programmes relating to the North Korean nuclear and energy situations, the nuclear rivalry in South Asia and the development of the Mekong Basin. He is a member of the Executive of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, and from 1993 to 1997 was Joint Editor of the Asian Studies Review.
Dr A K M Abdus Sabur
Dr Sabur is the Senior Research Fellow at the Bangladsh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS), in charge of South Asian Studies. He has been in his present post since 1991. Dr Sabur was a Ford Foundation Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York, Sep 86- July 87. His latest publications include "Nuclearisation of South Asia: Challenges and Options for Bangladesh" and "Bangladesh-Bhutan Relations: An Overview". Present fields of study include, domestic politics and interstate relations with particular reference to security and co-operation in the region and conflict management and resolution with particular reference to South Asia. He is the editor of ' Bangladesh Foreign Policy Survey' and Associate Editor BIISS journal.
Mr Abdul Sattar
During career in the diplomatic service, Abdul Sattar was ambassador to Austria, India, and the former Soviet Union. As Foreign Secretary, he participated in the Geneva negotiations on Afghanistan, leading to agreement 1988 on withdrawal of Soviet forces. He was foreign minister in the caretaker cabinet in 1993. As Distinguished Fellow at the US Institute of Peace, in Washington in 1994, he wrote an article on Reducing Nuclear Dangers in South Asia, published in Nonproliferation Review, Monterey,Californa, in Winter 1995. He contributed a chapter on foreign policy for a book, Pakistan In Perspective, editor Rafi Raza, published by.Oxford Unity Press, one the 50th anniversary of Pakistan's independence. After the nuclear tests in 1998, he written articles on emergent issues in The News, Islamabad, and was a participant in both the Melbourne Group Dialogue of August 1998 and the Washington Dialogue on February 1999.
Assoc Prof Marika Vicziany
BA 1st class Hons. In History and Politics, University of Western Australia, 1969 and PhD School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1975. Dr Vicziany is a specialist in the economic history of South Asia, with a particular interest in long term trends and current public policies. Published works include reports, articles, chapters and books dealing with industrial development, mass poverty in South Asia, family planning and other government programs, foreign direct investment, case studies of Indo-Australian joint ventures and most recently has been working on matters of regional security which affect economic development. In 1998 with co-author Oliver Mendelsohn published "The Untouchables: Poverty, Subordination and the State in Modern India" with Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Work in progress focuses on three areas: the transfer of technology to India with special reference to Australian companies; the security situation in South Asia and its regional implications; the role of foreign companies in the development of Malaysia. Dr Vicziany is a Professor of Economic History, in the Economics Department at Monash University. She is also the Director of the National Centre for South Asian Studies in Melbourne, an Australia-wide network of about 120 South Asia specialists. The Centre, located in the Monash Asia Institute, undertakes a wide range of programs including consultancies, conferences, publications and promoting innovative research. Many of these programs are developed in collaboration with like minded institutions in South Asia, Europe and America. In addition to her academic work, Dr Vicziany has acted as a consultant on South Asia to a wide range of Australian companies, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australia Council. As the Director of the National Centre for South Asian Studies, in August 1998 Professor Vicziany initiated, in collaboration with the Monash Asia Institute, the first phase of an Australian based dialogue on security and disarmament in the Asia Pacific. The second phase is now being undertaken in collaboration with Georgetown University.