Ishtiaq Ahmed (political Scientist)

Ishtiaq Ahmed (political Scientist)

Ishtiaq Ahmed (born 24 February 1947, in Lahore, British India) is a Swedish political scientist and author of Pakistani descent. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stockholm University. He is also Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. He was a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore and at the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore from June 2007 to June 2010. .

He is member of the editorial advisory boards of "Asian Ethnicity";"Journal of Punjab Studies"; "IPRI Journal, Islamabad"; "India Quarterly" and "PIPS Research Journal of Conflict and Peace Studies, Islamabad".

Ahmed received his doctorate from the University of Stockholm in 1986, where he taught a range of courses from the basic to the doctoral levels. Besides teaching mainstream subjects such as political theory he also lectured and wrote on the politics of South Asia (mainly Pakistan and India, but also Bangladesh and Sri Lanka), political Islam in various contexts and in world politics, human rights, multiculturalism and on ethnicity, identity and nationalism.