Abbas Farasoo

Abbas Farasoo

PhD candidate at Deakin University

Abbas Farasoo is a researcher at La Trobe University specializing in international security, contentious politics and diplomacy. He has taught at the University of Melbourne, Deakin University, Monash University and Australian Catholic University. Previously, Abbas served as Deputy Director-General for Regional Cooperation at Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Chargé d’Affaires in Australia. His research, including a Carnegie-funded project on proxy wars, appears in leading journals. Abbas holds a PhD from Deakin University and has forthcoming books, Proxy War in Afghanistan (Manchester University Press) and Nomadism in Afghanistan (Amsterdam University Press; forthcoming).

 

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