Career
Ahmed was awarded an M.A. in Contemporary War & Peace Studies and a PhD in International Relations from the School of Global Studies at Sussex University. His doctoral thesis investigated the radicalization processes and dynamics of violent conflict (including mass violence and genocide) in the context of modern imperial social systems. He specifically focuses on the European Atlantic empires and Western counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also published widely on international terrorism and the ‘War on Terror’, focusing on the material infrastructure of Islamist terrorist networks and the energy geopolitics of US and Western foreign policy strategies. His current research focuses on the radicalization of violent conflicts in strategic regions in the context of systemic ecological, economic and energy crises rooted in the structure of the global political economy. This is exemplified in his latest book, 'A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: and How to Save It' (Pluto, Macmillan, 2010).
Ahmed has written for the Independent on Sunday, Prospect Magazine, Le Monde diplomatique, International Affairs (Chatham House), New Internationalist, Muslim News, Raw Story, New Criminologist, Daily News Egypt, Pakistan Observer, and Tehran Times; and appeared as an expert commentator for BBC News 24, BBC World News with George Alagiah, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC World Today, BBC Asian Network, Channel 4, Sky News, C-SPAN Book TV, CNN, FOX News, Bloomberg, PBS Foreign Exchange, Al-Jazeera English, Press TV, Islam Channel and hundreds of other radio and TV shows in the USA, UK, and Europe. He is also cited and reviewed in the Sunday Times, Times Higher Educational Supplement, The Independent, The Observer, Big Issue Magazine, Vanity Fair, New York Observer, among others, as well as dozens of peer-reviewed social science journals. He comments regularly for popular online newsmagazines such as ZNet, Counterpunch, AlterNet, Op Ed News, Atlantic Free Press, Ceasefire Magazine, Dissident Voice and New Left Project. Dr. Ahmed is also currently a partner contributor for editorials & analysis at former FBI translator Sibel Edmond’s The Boiling Frogs Post and contributing editor at the Journal for Public Intelligence founded by Robert D. Steele, former Deputy Director of the US Army’s Marine Corps Intelligence Command.
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