Md. Muddassir Quamar

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Md. Muddassir Quamar’s Op-ed article ‘India and the Gulf: Prospects for Collaboration in Defense Sector’ has been published on the Raksha Anirveda website on April 15, 2021.

The piece emphasises on the greater intent and prospects for India's collaboration with the UAE and Saudi Arabia in the field of defense industry.

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• Published: 15 April, 2021

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Md. Muddassir Quamar’s Commentary on the growing India-Saudi special friendship and the latest telephonic conversation between PM Modi and Crown Prince Mohammed, titled “Growing India-Saudi Arabia ‘Special Friendship’” has been published by All India Radio (AIR) World Service, an External Services Division of AIR, on March 16, 2021.

India and Saudi Arabia have converging interests not only for national and regional security but also for the social and economic wellbeing of their citizens. Both have initiated long term reform programmes to expedite economic growth and improve the livelihood of their peoples. It is in this spirit of serving the people and the “special friendship” that Prime Minister Modi and Crown Prince Mohammed “agreed to continue supporting each other’s efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic”, writes Dr. Quamar.

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• Published: 16 March, 2021

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Md. Muddassir Quamar’s book ‘Education System in Saudi Arabia: Of Change and Reforms’ has been published by Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.

The book is the first comprehensive study on the education system of Saudi Arabia in the world. It places the reforms and changes in the past two decades within the context of the historical evolution of the education system and the interplay of social, political and religious factors in shaping these changes. The book does not ignore the immediate trigger for the beginning of the reforms process but goes beyond it to find much deeper socio-political and economic rationales that paved the way for the reforms.

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• Published: 15 March, 2021

Associate fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Md. Muddassir Quamar’s Chapter ‘Holocaust Denial and Minimization in the Indian Urdu Press’ has been published in the Volume ‘Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations’, edited by Dr. Navras J. Aafreedi and Dr. Priya Singh (London: Routledge).

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• Published: 15 February, 2021

India and the GCC countries should further strengthen cooperation in the fields of healthcare, education, defence and niche areas like space exploration, artificial intelligence, cyber security, bioinformatics, and renewable energy.

• Published: January 15, 2021
• Issue Brief

Tunisia faces serious socio-economic, political and security challenges. There is a degree of political disarray on top of a serious economic problem aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. A decade after Arab Spring, Tunisia is once again at a crossroads, and its future depends on the ability of Tunisians to find a way out of the crisis, without compromising on the democratic gains made since 2011.

• Published: January-March 2021
• Africa Trends

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Md. Muddassir Quamar’s Comment ‘India & Qatar To Reinvigorate Bilateral Ties’ has been published by the All India Radio (AIR) World Service, an external services division of AIR, on December 30, 2020.

India is making a concentrated effort to boost bilateral relations with the Gulf countries. Qatar is an important partner for India in the Gulf, and the visit of Dr. Jaishankar is likely to give a boost to bilateral relations in trade, commerce and investments, writes Dr. Quamar.

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• Published: 30 December, 2020

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Md. Muddassir Quamar’s research article ‘Changing regional geopolitics and the foundations of a rapprochement between Arab Gulf and Israel’ has been published in Global Affairs, the journal of European International Studies Association.

The article takes a deeper look at developments leading up to the UAE's decision, followed by Bahrain, to normalize relations with Israel. It explains the rationale behind the decision from the "threat perception" and "alliance building" frameworks.

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• Published: 30 December, 2020

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Md. Muddassir Quamar's article 'India’s Growing Defence Cooperation with the Gulf' has been published in Raksha Anirveda on December 24, 2020.

The commentary on the COAS visit to the UAE & KSA underlines how common security threats are leading India & Gulf to develop defence ties.

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• Published: 24 December, 2020

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Md. Muddassir Quamar’s Chapter ‘Saudi Arabia: Navigating a Perilous Regional and International Politics’ has been published in a Volume titled ‘Political Faultlines in the Middle East’, edited by Prof. Kingshuk Chatterjee, University of Kolkata, and published by Knowledge World Publishers.

The Chapter discusses the Saudi foreign policy priorities and challenges in a changing regional and global geopolitics.

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• Published: 8 December, 2020