BHUIAN MD. MONOAR KABIR is professor of Political Science at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He received his Ph.D and M.A degrees from the University of Arizona, USA and M.S.S. and B.S.S. Honors degrees from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Professor Kabir’s areas of interests include Civil-Military Relations and Democratization in the developing countries, Comparative Politics, International Relations with special emphasis on East, Southeast, South Asia and Bangladesh Politics. As a Fulbright fellow at the Georgetown University (January-July 2005), he worked on Southeast Asian Islamic Movements and the US Policy toward Islamic Movements. He worked on Islamic Political Forces in Bangladesh in Domestic and Global Contexts as a Visiting Researcher at the Georgetown University in 2011. In addition to his books, Politics and Development of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh (2006); and Politics of Military Rule and the Dilemmas of Democratization in Bangladesh (1999), his recent publications are: “Social Change and Political Institutions in India: From the `Congress System’ to Coalitional Future?” (2002-2003), and “Islamic Politics in Bangladesh: Internal and External Contexts” (2002). Presently, he is working on two books, respectively, on Bangladesh and Its Borders: A Study of Cross-Border Issues and Islamic Political Forces in Bangladesh in Domestic and Global Context. His article, titled, “Bangladesh and Its Borders: A Preliminary Study of Some Cross-Border Issues”, was published in 2010. Professor Kabir is the lead author of the article, titled, “Power, Public Policy and Participation/Democracy: A Critical Review of Some Perspectives” (2013). His article with Dr. Mustafizur Rahman Siddiqui and Md. Bakthear Uddin, titled, & International Relations of East Asia in the Early Post Cold-War Years” is going to be published soon in Regional Studies.
