Adil Rasheed

Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed contributed a chapter titled 'Effective Management of Islamic Radicalization of Youth: An Indian Perspective' to the newly published book titled 'India-Uzbekistan Partnership in Regional Peace and Stability: Challenges and Prospects', launched by the United Service Institution of India (USI) on September 28, 2018.

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Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s article on militant fundamentalism, titled ‘Why militant fundamentalism is post-modern,
not orthodox," was published in the Al-Arabiya TV channel website on September 28, 2018.

The article posits that transnational Jihadism may have more in common with Neo-Marxist postmodernism than with orthodox Islam.

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Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s article, titled ‘The dangers of apocalyptic discourse’ was published in the Al-Arabiya TV channel website, on August 31, 2018.

The article discusses how the madness of doomsday cults has become the ideology of terror groups, even of nation states that is now affecting global geopolitics and is influencing present conflicts.

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Research Fellow, IDSA. Dr Adil Rasheed’s article on Transhumanism, titled ‘Transhumanism: Politics of Hybridizing Humans with Robots," has been published in the Al-Arabiya TV channel website on May 27, 2018.

The article describes transhumanism as a recent techno-political movement that wants advanced technology to be given popular and government support for enhancing human abilities, which it deems “conservative or poorly informed” electorates and politicians often end up denying it.

Claiming to represent the scientific community as a whole, ‘Transhumanist’ advocates seek to pursue controversial technologies related to genetic editing, artificial intelligence, etc. which are often subjected to regulations as they are considered having dangerous implications for mankind by ethical or religious sensibilities.

Led by major tech giants such as Tesla, Google and Nokia, political activists of Transhumanism have started building their clout for their agenda in Washington and other global capitals.

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Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s article on Artificial Intelligence, titled ‘Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Work’ was published on Al-Arabiya TV channel website on May 29, 2018.

Notwithstanding the debate over the prospects and consequences of Artificial Intelligence reaching singularity (exceed human intelligence), the article points to this technology worsening the problem of unemployment for an already struggling global economy.

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IDSA scholars, Col Vivek Chadha (Retd) Dr Adil Rasheed’s co-authored article on Hurriyat's rejection of non-initiation of offensive operations (NIOO), titled ‘Rejection of ceasefire offer in Kashmir shows the Hurriyat’s anti-Islamic face’, was published in 'Daily O' on May 20, 2018.

The article argues against the Hurriyat's decision to reject Indian government's ceasefire offer on Islamic grounds.

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Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s article on non-verbal communications titled ‘Napoleon’s bad French to Trump’s candid talk: Paradigm shift in communications?’ was published in the Al-Arabiya website on April 30, 2018.

The article argues that in today’s world of mass visual communications, the appeal of a leader is not restricted to the mere strength or limitation of his or her intellectual argument, but to the level of trust and confidence the leader is able to generate among the people.

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The Indian strategic community has for long debated aspects of jihadist radicalisation in the country—particularly over its origins, causes, extent, trajectory and possible counter-measures. This article posits that in the absence of clear perspectives, the incipient threat of jihadist radicalisation has the potential to metastasise and snowball quickly, as has been witnessed in other parts of the world in recent times.

• Adil Rasheed |
• April-June 2018 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s article on US President Donald Trump, titled ‘US president gains popularity: Do policies trump the person?’ was published by Al Arabiya on March 31, 2018.

The article studies the growing acceptance of President Trump’s policies.

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Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s analysis on West Asia, titled ‘Shifting Diplomatic Gear in a Rapidly Unraveling West Asia’ was published in Vol. 12, No. 4, October–December 2017 issue of the Indian Foreign Affairs Journal (IFAJ).

In the essay, Dr Rasheed has argued that India should revise its hands-off approach on all matters in West Asia and play a more peace-enabling diplomatic role in the region, as fence-sitting may in itself not secure its vital security and economic interests in a post-ISIS region, which is fast bursting at the seams.

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