Prof Mohammed Ayoob

Michigan State University, USA

The War on Terror: Impact Upon Assimilation of US Muslims

Bio

Mohammed Ayoob is University Distinguished Professor of International Relations, Michigan State University. He holds a joint appointment in James Madison College and the Department of Political Science. He is also the Coordinator of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University.

A specialist on issues of conflict and security in the post-colonial world, he has written on security issues relating to South Asia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia as well as on conceptual and theoretical issues relating to security and conflict in the international system. In addition, he has published books and articles on the intersection of religion and politics in the Muslim World. He has authored and/or edited 11 books and published around 90 research papers in leading academic journals and as book chapters. His books include The Politics of Islamic Reassertion (1981) and The Third World Security Predicament: State Making, Regional Conflict, and the International System (1995). He has just completed a book manuscript on The Many Faces of Political Islam, which will be published in 2007.

He was a member of the faculty at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and the Australian National University before joining Michigan State University in 1990. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia, Oxford, Princeton, and Brown Universities and at Bilkent University in Turkey and has received fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller, Ford, and MacArthur Foundations and from the East-West Center in Honolulu and the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.