Mohammed Ayoob

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Mohammed Ayoob is a Distinguished Professor of International Relations at Michigan State University's James Madison College and the Department of Political Science. He is also Coordinator of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University.^[1]

He is Muslim, of Indian descent. He has a BA in Political Science from Utkal University, an MA in Political Science from Aligarh Muslim University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii. He served on the faculty of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and the Australian National University in Canberra before joining Michigan State University in 1990. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia, Oxford, Princeton, and Brown Universities and at Bilkent University in Turkey. He has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Ford, Rockefeller, MacArthur and MSU Foundations and from the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Most important are his views concerning subaltern realism, state failure and decay. Ayoob is a prolific writer on Third World politics, specifically the Middle East and South Asia. His book The Third World Security Predicament: State Making, Regional Conflict and the International System published in 1995 is considered a seminal study of the subject.

Ayoob was also a protege of Hedley Bull, and is considered to be an adherent of the "English School" of International Relations theory.

His latest scholarly articles include “Inequality and Theorizing in International Relations: The Case for Subaltern Realism” in International Studies Review, Fall 2002, “South-west Asia After the Taliban” in Survival, Spring 2002, “Humanitarian Intervention and State Sovereignty” in International Journal of Human Rights, Spring 2002, "The War Against Iraq: Normative and Strategic Implications” in Middle East Policy, Summer 2003, "Political Islam: Image and Reality" in World Policy Journal, Fall 2004, "The Future of Political Islam: The Importance of External Variables," in International Affairs, October 2005, and "Challenging Hegemony: Political Islam and the North-South Divide" in International Studies Review, Winter 2007. His latest book titled The Many Faces of Political Islam was published by the University of Michigan Press in November 2007.