Dr. Shamsul Khan has joined BU on January 23, 2003 as a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Economics & Social Science. Dr. Khan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of International Studies, University of South Australia. Dr. Khan has studied Political Science, International Relations, History, Economics, German, French and Latin at the Universities of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Heidelberg, Germany, and received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Heidelberg in 1985. His previous research/teaching positions include: Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Senior Fulbright Scholar, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, USIS Visiting Scholar for University Lecturing, Washington DC, USA, Visiting Scholar, Goethe-Institute, Munich/Berlin, Germany, Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA, Postdoctoral Fellow, Departement de Science Politique, Universite de Paris I (Sorbonne-Pantheon), France, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of International Agrar-Economy, University of Kassel, Germany, Visiting Research Associate, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and Research Fellow, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany.