{"id":1629,"date":"2026-10-07T07:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:18:14","slug":"welcome-amjed-rasheed-at-the-cercle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/welcome-amjed-rasheed-at-the-cercle\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Amjed Rasheed at the Cercle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Amjed Rasheed<\/strong>, <strong>King&rsquo;s College<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amjed Rasheed is a researcher in international relations and political economy specialising in China\u2019s expanding role in West Asia and North Africa (WANA), among other topics. His work examines how Chinese power is exercised, received, and contested in the region. His published research on Egypt analyses how the political elites represent the Chinese development model as an alternative to liberal-democratic governance. It also shows that the significance of China\u2019s presence extends beyond trade and infrastructure. The research demonstrates that China can serve as a political reference point through which governments legitimise sovereignty-centred, state-led, and authoritarian forms of development. His current work investigates Chinese economic statecraft in the WANA region, focusing on the conduct of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SoE) in fragile contexts. Using Iraq as a case study, he examines how commercial activity by Chinese firms intersects with Beijing\u2019s diplomatic interests, energy-security priorities, reconstruction agendas, local elite networks, and institutional weakness. Rather than treating state-owned enterprises as straightforward instruments of a coherent Chinese grand strategy, the research asks where commercial incentives, political objectives, and host-country agency converge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:a.m.rasheed@protonmailch\">a.m.rasheed@protonmailc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LinkedIn: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/amjed-rasheed-b3a067110\/\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/amjed-rasheed-b3a067110<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Scholar: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=lw_2uB0AAAAJ\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=lw_2uB0AAAAJ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Selected Publications<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rasheed, A. and Azzo, M. (Forthcoming). <em>From Water to Dust: Climate Disruption and Identity in Southern Iraq<\/em>. Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rasheed, A. 2023. <em>Power and Paranoia in Syrian\u2013Iraqi Relations: The Impact of Hafez Assad and Saddam Hussein.<\/em> Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rasheed, A. 2024. \u201cIraq\u2019s Struggle to Contend with the Sino-US Rivalry.\u201d <em>Middle East Policy<\/em> 31(1): 102\u2013119.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rasheed, A. 2022. \u201cMediterranean Africa Pivots Towards China: The Case of Egypt and Algeria.\u201d <em>Afriche e Orienti<\/em> 25(1): 16\u201340.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rasheed, A. 2022. \u201cThe Narrative of the Rise of China and Authoritarianism in the Global South: The Case of Egypt.\u201d <em>International Spectator<\/em> 57(2): 68\u201384.<\/p>\n<!-- Facebook Page Plugin by Medust: http:\/\/medust.com -->\r\n\t\t<div class=\"fb-recommendations-bar\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/welcome-amjed-rasheed-at-the-cercle\/\" data-read-time=\"5\" data-side=\"\" data-action=\"like\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amjed Rasheed, King&rsquo;s College Amjed Rasheed is a researcher in international relations and political economy specialising in China\u2019s expanding role in West Asia and North Africa (WANA), among other topics. His work examines how Chinese power is exercised, received, and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/welcome-amjed-rasheed-at-the-cercle\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cv","category-nos-membres-actifs","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}