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Muneeb Salman is an Associate Senior Researcher at the Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies (CASS), Lahore. His research interests include Pakistan’s foreign and security policies, strategic culture, epistemic communities, and the role of elites in policy processes.
Muneeb Salman is an Associate Senior Researcher at the Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies (CASS), Lahore. His research interests include Pakistan’s foreign and security policies, strategic culture, epistemic communities, and the role of elites in policy processes.
He has worked at several public and private think tanks in Islamabad for more than five years, including the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI), and the Maritime Study Forum (MSF). He was the youngest member of research faculty at a public sector think tank when he joined IPRI at 22 in October 2021.
He holds BS and MPhil degrees from the Department of International Relations at National Defence University, where he received the President’s Gold Medal for the MPhil batch of 2022-2024. He also received research and professional training at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and ADA University, Azerbaijan.
Muneeb maintains a keen interest in using digital media for strategic communications and open-source data collection. He led the pioneer social media team at the Department of International Relations, NDU. His MPhil research included devising a prosopography of knowledge experts on international relations and national security studies using open-source data.
His research has appeared in national and international journals, newspapers, blogs, and media.
Publications of Muneeb Salman
Research Papers
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Before Joining CASS
- Iqbal, Khuram, Muneeb Salman, and Muhammad Ahmad Khan. 2024. “Securitization of the Maritime Sector in Pakistan.” Comparative Strategy43 (6): 734–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/01495933.2024.2409047
- Iqbal, Khuram, and Muneeb Salman. 2023. “Gap Analysis of Pakistan’s Non-Kinetic Responses to Violent Extremism.” Cogent Social Sciences9 (1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2023.2221906
- Iqbal, Khuram, Muneeb Salman, and Tahir Abbas Sial. 2023. “Major Power Competition in the Indian Ocean and Doctrinal Development in Pakistan.” Comparative Strategy42 (4): 509–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/01495933.2023.2238522
- Iqbal, Khuram, and Muneeb Salman. “Impacts of Covid-19 on Comprehensive Security in Pakistan.” The Journal of Political Science 38, no. 1 (2020): 176–94.
http://jps.gcu.edu.pk/website/journal/article/606f662250e48/page
Opinion Articles
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Before Joining CASS
- “Advocating by Doctrine: The Pakistan Navy’s Experience” published by CIMSEC (Centre for International Maritime Security), October 16, 2023, https://cimsec.org/advocating-by-doctrine-the-pakistan-navys-experience/
- “Age of Charlatans” published by the Express Tribune, May 07, 2023, https://tribune.com.pk/story/2415467/age-of-charlatans
- “Identifying the ‘elite’ in elite capture” published by the Express Tribune, March 25, 2023, https://tribune.com.pk/story/2407948/identifying-the-elite-in-elite-capture
- “Why does Pakistan need strategic petroleum reserves?” published by Global Village Space and IPRI, November 30, 2021, https://ipripak.org/why-does-pakistan-need-strategic-petroleum-reserves/
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