Dr. Mohan Malik
Professor of Geopolitics and Proliferation at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies
Dr. Mohan Malik came to the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in February 2001 from Deakin University in Australia where he was Director of the postgraduate Defense Studies Program. He obtained his Ph.D. in International Relations from the Australian National University, M.Phil in Chinese Studies from Delhi University and Advanced Diploma in Chinese language from Beijing University. He is a trained Sinologist and has broad research interests in Asian Geopolitics, China's Asia strategy, nuclear proliferation, and the nature of future conflicts in the Asia-Pacific
Dr. Malik is the author of Dragon on Terrorism (U.S. Army War College, 2002), The Gulf War: Australia's Role and Asian-Pacific Responses (Strategic and Defense Studies Center/ANU Press, 1992), co-editor of Religious Radicalism and Security in South Asia (APCSS, Honolulu, 2004), and editor of Australia's Security in the 21st Century (Allen and Unwin, 1999), The Future Battlefield (Deakin University Press and Directorate of Army Research and Analysis, 1997), and the three volumes on Asian Defense Policies (Deakin University Press, 1994). He has contributed numerous chapters to books and published over 150 journal articles on Asian-Pacific security issues. He has also written for a number of newspapers and news magazines, most notably The International Herald Tribune, The Japan Times, The Australian, The Age, Asia Times, Force, The Australian Financial Review, The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, The Hindustan Times, Pakistan Today, and The Pioneer.
He has been awarded the Australian Department of Defense Fellowship twice in 1991 and 1998. During 1998-2000, he was a member of the Australian Foreign Minister's National Consultative Committee on Peace & Disarmament (NCCPD) and Australian Committee on Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (AUS-CSCAP). Dr. Malik has testified before the Australian Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade and also done consultancy work for the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Australian Department of Defense (Army), and the UK-based Jane's Information Group.