Amjed is working as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Defence Studies, Regional Security Studies, in the Defence Studies Department and the UK Defence Academy. He earned his PhD from Durham University in 2017. Before his tenure at King's, Amjed held academic positions at Tübingen University from 2020 to 2021 and at Lancaster University from 2022 to 2023. In addition, he was the Hillary Rodham Clinton Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast from 2022 to 2023.

Amjed is currently co-writing a book on environmental security in Iraq titled From Water To Dust: Climate Disruption and Identity In Southern Iraq for Element Cambridge University Press, and a book on Saudi Arabia for the Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

Amjed accepts PhD applications in any of the following research themes.

 

Research Interests

• Security and IR

• Peace and Conflict

• Geoeconomics

• West Asia and North Africa 

 

Publications

Books

• Rasheed, A. (2023). Power and Paranoia in Syria-Iraq Relations: The Impact of Hafez Assad and Saddam Hussain (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003344889
• Beaujouan, J., Dudouet, V., Halilovic-Pastuovic, M., Hülzer, J.-M., Kortam, M., & Rasheed, A. (Eds.). (2023). Vulnerability and Resilience to Violent Extremism: An Actor-Centric Approach (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003424901
• Ehteshami, A., Rasheed, A., & Beaujouan, J. (2020). Islam, IS and the Fragmented State: The Challenges of Political Islam in the MENA Region (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429280047
• Beaujouan, J. and Rasheed, A (Eds). (2020). Syrian Crisis, Syrian Refugees. Voices from Jordan and Lebanon. Palgrave Pivot. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35016-1

Book chapters

• Rasheed, A. and Aziz, S. (2023). “Iraq amid Great Power Competition: A Case of Minimal Local Agency?” In China, Russia, and the USA in the Middle East: The Contest for Supremacy, Houghton, B. and Houghton, K. (eds.). London: Routledge. 131-144. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003372011-11/iraq-amid-great-power-competition-amjed-rasheed-sardar-aziz
• Ehteshami et al. (2023). “China and the Arab Region: Dynamics of Engagement” in China’s Engagement with the Islamic Nations: A Clash or Collaboration of Modern Civilisation? Kim, Y. (ed.), pp. 1-19. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/china-and-the-arab-region-dynamics-of-engagement/25443332
• Rasheed, A. (2018). “The KRG-Baghdad Relations from the First Republic to the Second Republic (1991-2017)” in Iraq After ISIS, Eriksson, J and Khaleel A. (eds.), pp. 63-84. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00955-7_5

Journal Articles

• Rasheed, A., 2024, Iraq's Struggle to Contend With the Sino–U.S. Rivalry. In Middle East Policy (Online First) https://doi.org/10.1111/mepo.12732
• Rasheed, A. (Autumn 2023). The Political Economy of Sino-North Africa Relations. Afriche e Oriente. (Special Issue)
• Rasheed, A. Beaujouan, J. (2022). Investigating the role of religious institutions in the prevention of violent extremism in Nineveh province, Iraq. Journal of Deradicalisation 32: 76–109. https://journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/jd/article/view/645
• Rasheed, A. and al-Eshaq, S. (2022). The ‘David’ in a Divided Gulf: Qatar's Foreign Policy and the 2017 Gulf Crisis. Middle East Policy 29 (2): 30–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/mepo.12623
• Rasheed, A. (2022). The Narrative of the Rise of China and Authoritarianism in the Global South: The Case of Egypt. International Spectator 57 (2): 68–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2021.2009641
• Rasheed, A. and Beaujouan, J. (2020). The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan and Lebanon: Impact and Implications. Middle East Policy 27 (3): 76–98. https://doi.org/10.1111/mepo.12514
• Rasheed, A. (2018). Syria vs Iraq: Clash of Authoritarians. Middle East Policy 25 (4): 118–131. https://doi.org/10.1111/mepo.12382 

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