Akbar Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4098326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akbar Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akbar |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nankai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9268-3774 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Covid-19 Shock and the U.S.-China Rivalry
This study examines the impacts of Covid-19 on existing interstate rivalries, focusing on the U.S.-China rivalry. Traditionally, rival states set aside their ideological and political differences to form alliances in the face of shared threats. In such cases, the cost of confronting a common enemy alone often outweighs the benefits of maintaining ideological purity. The Covid-19 pandemic posed significant security and economic challenges, exposin…
Assessing the Compatibility of Conventional Military Doctrines With the Changing Character of War
Military doctrines integrate and encourage armed forces to pursue their strategic objectives while acting as an instrument to forestall conflicts by retaining credible deterrence. However, the acquisition of nuclear weapons and access to sophisticated technologies have significantly changed the character of warfare, adding layers to the complexity. This strategic shift has resulted in the diversification of sub-conventional warfare in the subcont…
Securitization and State Sponsorship of Non-State Actors
Steps-to-War Theory and Interstate Wars in the Middle East
I employ Steps-to-War theory to analyze interstate wars in the Middle East by adding an additional escalating step: state sponsorship of non-state actors. Remarkably, however, the present scholarship completely overlooks a comprehensive assessment of the impacts and roles of state-sponsored terrorism on escalation of interstate militarized conflicts. None of the conflict studies focuses on state-sponsored terrorism and escalation of interstate co…
Iran-Hezbollah Alliance Reconsidered
States often build alliances with non-state actors to address their security needs and pursue their strategic objectives, but such alliances are highly unreliable and fraught with grave risks for the allying parties. The gradually increasing capabilities of a non-state actor may embolden it to give preferences to its own geopolitical agenda, thereby adversely affecting the alliance. Thus, states and non-state actors have mostly failed to maintain…
Conflict escalation in the Middle East revisited
This article argues that state sponsorship of terrorism is a by-product of conflicting relations between states that are generally hostile towards each other. States harbour and drive non-state actors, aiming to create security concerns to the target states, which provoke the target states to take retaliatory actions against the host and/or the terrorist group in a bid to avoid destabilization, uncertainty, and a possible shift in the balance of …
Conflict escalation in the Middle East revisited
This article argues that state sponsorship of terrorism is a by-product of conflicting relations between states that are generally hostile towards each other. States harbour and drive non-state actors, aiming to create security concerns to the target states, which provoke the target states to take retaliatory actions against the host and/or the terrorist group in a bid to avoid destabilization, uncertainty, and a possible shift in the balance of …
Steps-to-War Theory and Interstate Wars in the Middle East
I employ Steps-to-War theory to analyze interstate wars in the Middle East by adding an additional escalating step: state sponsorship of non-state actors. Remarkably, however, the present scholarship completely overlooks a comprehensive assessment of the impacts and roles of state-sponsored terrorism on escalation of interstate militarized conflicts. None of the conflict studies focuses on state-sponsored terrorism and escalation of interstate co…
Iran-Hezbollah Alliance Reconsidered
States often build alliances with non-state actors to address their security needs and pursue their strategic objectives, but such alliances are highly unreliable and fraught with grave risks for the allying parties. The gradually increasing capabilities of a non-state actor may embolden it to give preferences to its own geopolitical agenda, thereby adversely affecting the alliance. Thus, states and non-state actors have mostly failed to maintain…
Conflict escalation in the Middle East revisited
This article argues that state sponsorship of terrorism is a by-product of conflicting relations between states that are generally hostile towards each other. States harbour and drive non-state actors, aiming to create security concerns to the target states, which provoke the target states to take retaliatory actions against the host and/or the terrorist group in a bid to avoid destabilization, uncertainty, and a possible shift in the balance of …
Steps-to-War Theory and Interstate Wars in the Middle East
I employ Steps-to-War theory to analyze interstate wars in the Middle East by adding an additional escalating step: state sponsorship of non-state actors. Remarkably, however, the present scholarship completely overlooks a comprehensive assessment of the impacts and roles of state-sponsored terrorism on escalation of interstate militarized conflicts. None of the conflict studies focuses on state-sponsored terrorism and escalation of interstate co…
Securitization and State Sponsorship of Non-State Actors
Assessing the Compatibility of Conventional Military Doctrines With the Changing Character of War
Military doctrines integrate and encourage armed forces to pursue their strategic objectives while acting as an instrument to forestall conflicts by retaining credible deterrence. However, the acquisition of nuclear weapons and access to sophisticated technologies have significantly changed the character of warfare, adding layers to the complexity. This strategic shift has resulted in the diversification of sub-conventional warfare in the subcont…
Covid-19 Shock and the U.S.-China Rivalry
This study examines the impacts of Covid-19 on existing interstate rivalries, focusing on the U.S.-China rivalry. Traditionally, rival states set aside their ideological and political differences to form alliances in the face of shared threats. In such cases, the cost of confronting a common enemy alone often outweighs the benefits of maintaining ideological purity. The Covid-19 pandemic posed significant security and economic challenges, exposin…
Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (3 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (3 works) · Rivalry (3 works)