Syed Muhammad Saad Zaidi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4372618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Syed Muhammad Saad Zaidi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Syed Muhammad Saad |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaidi |
| SIGNATURE | ZAIDI S M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bahria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0252-0240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Algorithmic empire: Analyzing digital colonization and AI militarism in Palestine
This article advances Battlefield-Validation Diffusion (BVD), a theoretical model explaining how combat-tested AI-enabled military systems translate battlefield performance into accelerated global diffusion within a broader imperial-colonial order. It argues that battlefield-generated data and performance narratives operate as evidentiary capital that lowers buyer uncertainty and converts operational use into exportable technologies and doctrines…
The logic of war: How security, identity, and energy influence Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
This paper investigates why Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, arguing that the decision stemmed from the interaction of security, identity, and energy imperatives rather than a single cause. Employing a neoclassical realist framework, it integrates systemic triggers; NATO expansion and shifting European alignments, with domestic factors; politics, identity narratives, and material capacities. Through the process tracing of key decision poi…
Understanding the rise in violent extremism in Pakistan through the lens of securitization theory
Foreign aid: An agent for socioeconomic development? A case study from an emerging economy: Pakistan
Pakistan's economy since its creation has remained heavily dependent on foreign aid, especially to manage the ever‐widening gap between the available financial resources, development expenditure, fiscal deficit, and current account deficit. This article critically evaluates the effectiveness of foreign aid in Pakistan from 2000 to 2022 via an in‐depth literature review and the rational actor model (RAM). Furthermore, a mixed‐method approach based…
Sandwich Generation in Contemporary Indonesia: Determining Responsibility in Caring for Elderly under Islamic Law and Positive Law
The emergence of the term sandwich generation is believed to be a phenomenon that is common in Indonesian society. What's more, the number of baby boomers has become a concern both from a social and economic perspective for the generations below them. Therefore, many dilemmas arise regarding how the Indonesian people respond to sandwich generation, whether this position is a burden or a gift for the perpetrators of sandwich generation. This paper…
Covid-19: Exacerbating Pakistan's economic problems – a critical analysis using the dependency paradigm
Pandemics have been a recurrent phenomenon throughout the course of history. However, the levels of fear and hysteria brought by the COVID-19 outbreak, forcing regimes across the globe to impose stringent lockdowns, had never been witnessed before. While these lockdowns proved beneficial in reducing both the infection and mortality rate, they created an impossible environment for governments across the globe to effectively and efficiently govern,…
Regional political paradigm shift: Challenges and opportunities for Pakistan
With the dawn of the 21st century, a global political paradigmatic shift was witnessed; no longer was Europe considered to be the focal point of geopolitics. Now, all eyes were on the Asian continent; with the brewing Afghan conflict, the arguably rising global hegemony contender China, the convoluted Iranian crisis, rapidly rising economic powers in South-East Asia, the key strategic power of the Indian Ocean and India and, amidst all, the drama…
From friend to foe: Post-9/11 Pakistan–US relations; a realist perspective
The relations between Pakistan and the United States, throughout the course of history, have witnessed many ups and downs. At times, when their interests were aligned, strong socio-economic and military cooperation was seen between the two states. Yet, on other occasions they were at odds with and distant from each other. However, post 9/11, Pakistan–US relations were at its zenith, when Pakistan became the frontline ally of the US in the war aga…
American Global Supremacy Under Threat? The Chinese Factor
In contemporary times, the widely debated topic in international politics is the future of the United States as the sole superpower of the world. Many political analysts see the “unipolar moment” to be in grave danger, especially by a rapidly rising China. The advocates of China as the next superpower term the economic crisis of 2008 to be a watershed moment. Since the financial meltdown post‐2008, China began to unfold its geoeconomic might to t…
Ascent of the dragon: China’s growing role in global affairs
In contemporary times, the highly debated issue in geopolitics is the rapid rise of China as a potential Superpower. In merely, three decades China’s economy has transformed into the second-biggest economy in the world, it has the largest conventional force of the globe, it is now creating international institutes like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to provide a just and balanced alternate economic regime to the US-led liberal order, an…
Future of US-China Relations: Conflict, Competition or Cooperation
In contemporary times, the geo-political agenda and geo-economic strategy of the world is being dominated by the ongoing US-China hegemonic competition. Where the United States is trying to prolong the ‘unipolar moment’ and deter the rise of China; China is trying to establish itself as the hegemon in the Eastern hemisphere, an alternate to the US. The entirely opposite interests of the two Great Powers have initiated a hostile confrontational co…
From friend to foe: Post-9/11 Pakistan–US relations; a realist perspective
The relations between Pakistan and the United States, throughout the course of history, have witnessed many ups and downs. At times, when their interests were aligned, strong socio-economic and military cooperation was seen between the two states. Yet, on other occasions they were at odds with and distant from each other. However, post 9/11, Pakistan–US relations were at its zenith, when Pakistan became the frontline ally of the US in the war aga…
Ascent of the dragon: China’s growing role in global affairs
In contemporary times, the highly debated issue in geopolitics is the rapid rise of China as a potential Superpower. In merely, three decades China’s economy has transformed into the second-biggest economy in the world, it has the largest conventional force of the globe, it is now creating international institutes like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to provide a just and balanced alternate economic regime to the US-led liberal order, an…
Future of US-China Relations: Conflict, Competition or Cooperation
In contemporary times, the geo-political agenda and geo-economic strategy of the world is being dominated by the ongoing US-China hegemonic competition. Where the United States is trying to prolong the ‘unipolar moment’ and deter the rise of China; China is trying to establish itself as the hegemon in the Eastern hemisphere, an alternate to the US. The entirely opposite interests of the two Great Powers have initiated a hostile confrontational co…
From friend to foe: Post-9/11 Pakistan–US relations; a realist perspective
The relations between Pakistan and the United States, throughout the course of history, have witnessed many ups and downs. At times, when their interests were aligned, strong socio-economic and military cooperation was seen between the two states. Yet, on other occasions they were at odds with and distant from each other. However, post 9/11, Pakistan–US relations were at its zenith, when Pakistan became the frontline ally of the US in the war aga…
American Global Supremacy Under Threat? The Chinese Factor
In contemporary times, the widely debated topic in international politics is the future of the United States as the sole superpower of the world. Many political analysts see the “unipolar moment” to be in grave danger, especially by a rapidly rising China. The advocates of China as the next superpower term the economic crisis of 2008 to be a watershed moment. Since the financial meltdown post‐2008, China began to unfold its geoeconomic might to t…
Ascent of the dragon: China’s growing role in global affairs
In contemporary times, the highly debated issue in geopolitics is the rapid rise of China as a potential Superpower. In merely, three decades China’s economy has transformed into the second-biggest economy in the world, it has the largest conventional force of the globe, it is now creating international institutes like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to provide a just and balanced alternate economic regime to the US-led liberal order, an…
Regional political paradigm shift: Challenges and opportunities for Pakistan
With the dawn of the 21st century, a global political paradigmatic shift was witnessed; no longer was Europe considered to be the focal point of geopolitics. Now, all eyes were on the Asian continent; with the brewing Afghan conflict, the arguably rising global hegemony contender China, the convoluted Iranian crisis, rapidly rising economic powers in South-East Asia, the key strategic power of the Indian Ocean and India and, amidst all, the drama…
Sandwich Generation in Contemporary Indonesia: Determining Responsibility in Caring for Elderly under Islamic Law and Positive Law
The emergence of the term sandwich generation is believed to be a phenomenon that is common in Indonesian society. What's more, the number of baby boomers has become a concern both from a social and economic perspective for the generations below them. Therefore, many dilemmas arise regarding how the Indonesian people respond to sandwich generation, whether this position is a burden or a gift for the perpetrators of sandwich generation. This paper…
Covid-19: Exacerbating Pakistan's economic problems – a critical analysis using the dependency paradigm
Pandemics have been a recurrent phenomenon throughout the course of history. However, the levels of fear and hysteria brought by the COVID-19 outbreak, forcing regimes across the globe to impose stringent lockdowns, had never been witnessed before. While these lockdowns proved beneficial in reducing both the infection and mortality rate, they created an impossible environment for governments across the globe to effectively and efficiently govern,…
Foreign aid: An agent for socioeconomic development? A case study from an emerging economy: Pakistan
Pakistan's economy since its creation has remained heavily dependent on foreign aid, especially to manage the ever‐widening gap between the available financial resources, development expenditure, fiscal deficit, and current account deficit. This article critically evaluates the effectiveness of foreign aid in Pakistan from 2000 to 2022 via an in‐depth literature review and the rational actor model (RAM). Furthermore, a mixed‐method approach based…
Understanding the rise in violent extremism in Pakistan through the lens of securitization theory
Algorithmic empire: Analyzing digital colonization and AI militarism in Palestine
This article advances Battlefield-Validation Diffusion (BVD), a theoretical model explaining how combat-tested AI-enabled military systems translate battlefield performance into accelerated global diffusion within a broader imperial-colonial order. It argues that battlefield-generated data and performance narratives operate as evidentiary capital that lowers buyer uncertainty and converts operational use into exportable technologies and doctrines…
The logic of war: How security, identity, and energy influence Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
This paper investigates why Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, arguing that the decision stemmed from the interaction of security, identity, and energy imperatives rather than a single cause. Employing a neoclassical realist framework, it integrates systemic triggers; NATO expansion and shifting European alignments, with domestic factors; politics, identity narratives, and material capacities. Through the process tracing of key decision poi…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · China (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Foreign policy (4 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (4 works)