Dr. Saleh Md. Shahriar

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES :

1. Shahriar, S. (2026). The politico-cultural roots of Bangladesh: remembering the language movement through memoirs and autobiographical narratives. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 13(1). ( Q1, Scopus, Routledge, London). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311983.2026.2684824?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article    This paper draws on my previous seminar presentation reported widely in the newspaper:     নর্থ সাউথে ভাষা আন্দোলন নিয়ে আলোচনা:   https://share.google/woIivnVRTjon8UyN3
2. Shahriar, S. (2026). Changing Dynamics of Bangladesh-India Border Relations. Geopolitics, 31(4), Pages 1812-1820, (Q1, Scopus, SSCI, H-Index 70, CiteScore 8.1, Impact Factor 3.8, London, Routledge: Taylor & Francis) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2026.2616051
3. Shahriar, S. (2026). China's soft power strategy in Bangladesh. China Report ( Scopus, Q2, Sage Publications) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00094455261450933
4. Shahriar, S. (2026), Illicit drug flows and security concerns across the Bnagladesh-Myanmar border. BIISS Journal, 47(2), 199-218. https://www.biiss.org/public/article/illicit-drug-flows-and-security-concerns-across-the-bangladesh-myanmar-border
5. Shahriar, S. & Luong, T. H. (2023). Bangladesh's Rohingya refugee crisis: Perspectives from the Belt and Road Initiative. Asian Profile (Canada), 51 (4), 15-31. 
6. Shahriar, S. (2022). India’s economic relations with Myanmar: A study of border trade. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 37(3), 599-621. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08865655.2020.1816202?journalCode=rjbs20   (Q1, Scopus,Routledge, London)
7. Shahriar, S. (2021). Bangladesh-India border issues: A critical review, Geoforum,124(256-260). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718521001457 (Q1, SSCI, IF: 3.5, Cite Score:6.8, Scopus, Elsevier, Netherlands )
8. Shahriar, S. Kea, S. , Abdullahi, N.M., Rahman, R. , Rajib, M.I., (2021). Determinants of Bangladesh’s leather exports to its major trade partners, Global Business Review; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09721509211036288 ( Q2, Scopus, ABDC, Sage)
9. Shahriar, S., Kea, S., & Qian, L. (2019). Determinants of China’s outward foreign direct investment in the Belt & Road economies. International Journal of Emerging Markets, 15(3), 427-445. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJOEM-03-2019-0230/full/html ( Q2, SSCI, ABDC, Scopus, IF: 4.0, Emerald)
10. Shahriar, S., Qian, L., & Kea, S. (2019). Anatomy of human rights violations at the Indo-Bangladesh borderlands. Territory, Politics, Governance, 8(4), 553-578. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21622671.2019.1582359?journalCode=rtep20 (Q1, SSCI, Scopus, IF-2.6,Routledge, London)
11. Shahriar, S., Qian, L., & Kea, S. (2019). Determinants of exports in China’s meat industry: A gravity model analysis. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 55(11), 2544-2565. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1540496X.2019.1578647 ( Q1, SSCI, Scopus, IF:4 , Citescore: 4.8,  Routledge, London).
12. Shahriar, S., Qian, L., Rahman, A., Hasan, M. M., Kea, S., & Abdullahi, N. M. (2019). Youth skill development loans (YSDL) and good governance in Bangladesh: A logit model analysis. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade,56(11),2529-2542. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1540496X.2019.1594769?journalCode=mree20 (Q1, SSCI, Scopus, IF:4, Citescore : 4.8,Routledge, London)
13. Rahman, R., Shahriar, S., & Kea, S. (2019). Determinants of exports: A gravity model analysis of the Bangladeshi textile and clothing industries. FIIB Business Review, 8(3), 229-244; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2319714519872643?journalCode=fiba (Q2,  ESCI, Scopus, ABDC, Sage), Received High Impact Research Award for this paper.
14. Shahriar, S., Kea, S. & Abdullahi, N.M. (2019). The gravity model of trade: A theoretical perspective. Review of Innovation & Competitiveness: A Journal of Economic & Social Research, 5(1), 21-42, a journal of faculty of economics and tourism at the University of Pula, Croatia. The journal is indexed by Scilit. https://hrcak.srce.hr/220821

REFERRED BOOK CHAPTERS: 

1. Lin, L.S.F., Luong , H.T., Shahriar , S., Vincent , V.V. (2026). Policing Gender-Based Violence and Cross-Border Human Trafficking in Bangladesh: The Role of State and Non-state Actors. In: Albrecht, J.F., den Heyer, G. (eds) Policing, Violence, and Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-18085-8_15
2. Rahman, M., Shahriar, S. (2025). Radicalization of the Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camps: Myth or Reality?. In: Zaman, M., Anderson, R., Ahmed, K. (eds) Rohingya Stories: History and Geopolitics in a Multipolar World. Springer Nature, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-7929-4_16
3. Kea, S., Shahriar, S., Abdullahi, N.M., Moa, C. (2023). ASEAN Economies in the COVID-19 Post-pandemic Crisis . In: Adam, H., Rena, R. (eds) Political Economy of Development in the Global South Post-COVID-19 Pandemic, pp 73–93; Springer Nature,  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4074-5_4
4. Shahriar, S., Abdullahi, N.M. (2023). Nigeria–Benin Border Trade in the Context of the ECOWAS. In: Okunade, S.K., Ogunnubi, O. (eds) ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement and the AfCFTA in West Africa. Palgrave Macmillan & Spinger , Singapore. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-5005-6_4
5. Shahriar, S. (2023).Pandemic Crisis and Prospects of Tourism along the BCIM Economic Corridor. In A. Hassan, A. Sharma, J. Kennell and P. Mohanty (eds.), Crisis, Resilience and Recovery in Tourism and Hospitality. Singapore: Springer; pp. 63-74;  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-5763-5_
6. Shahriar , S. (2019). Literature survey on the “Belt and Road” Initiative: A bibliometric analysis. In M. Lytras, A. Visvizi, X. Zhang, & J. Zhao (Eds.), Foreign business in China and opportunities for technological innovation and sustainable economics (pp. 79-115). USA, New York :IGI Global; https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/literature-survey-on-the-belt-and-road-initiative/227133

 ENTRIES/CHAPTERS IN GLOBAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS:

• Shahriar, S. (2022). China’s Belt and Road Initiative. In A. Farazmand, (ed). Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance.  Cham, Switzerland: Springer (Scopus) https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4374-1
• Shahriar, S. (2022). China's Border Tourism. In D. Buhalis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing. London: Edward Elgar Publishing.(Scopus). ; https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377486.Chinas.border.tourism
• Shahriar, S. (2022). BCIM Economic Corridor. In A. Farazmand, (ed). Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance.  Cham, Switzerland: Springer,(Scopus). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377486.bcim.economic.corridor
• Kea, S. & Shahriar, S. (2022). Stochastic Frontier Analysis. In D. Buhalis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing. London: Edward Elgar Publishing,(Scopus). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377486.stochastic.frontier.analysis
• Shahriar, S. (2022). Border Governance & Shoot-to-Kill Policy. In A. Farazmand, (ed). Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, (Scopus). https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-66252-3_4372

RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED:

1. CTRG Grant (2023-2024), Office of Research-North South University-Completed 
2. CTRG Grant (2025-206)-Ongoing

WORKING PAPER:

       Shahriar, S. et al. (2018). China’s economic integration with the Greater Mekong Sub-region: an empirical analysis by a panel dynamic gravity model, Economics Discussion Papers (Scopus, SSCI), No. 2018-44, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany,  http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/discussionpapers/2018-44

POLICY MAGAZINE: 

        Shahriar, S. (March, 2023). Fourth Industrial Revolution in China, published in the 4th Industrial Revolution Skills Summit. 

BOOK REVIEWS:

1. Social Purpose, Commercialization, Innavation in Microfinance: A Global Perspective, by Md Aslam Mia, Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. xxvii, 158 pp. (Tables, graphs, figures, maps.) US$120.00, cloth, Pacific Affairs, Canada, 2024 , ISBN 9789811902161 Scopus, Q1 https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/social-purpose-commercialization-and-innovations-in-microfinance-a-global-perspective-by-aslam-mia
2. Fifty Years of Bangladesh, 1971-2021 : Crises of Culture, Developement, Governance and Identity by Taj Hashmi, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. xix, 388 pp. US$130.00, cloth; US$99.00, ebook.  Pacific Affairs, 97(2), June 2024, Canada,  Scopus,Q1, ISBN 9783030971588.https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/fifty-years-of-bangladesh-1971-2021-crises-of-culture-development-governance-and-identity-by-taj-hashmi/
3. Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border, by Malini Sur,  Ethnography of Political Violence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. x, 215 pp. ,  Pacific Affairs, 96(4), 2024, Scopus, Q1,The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/jungle-passports-fences-mobility-and-citizenship-at-the-northeast-india-bangladesh-border-by-malini-sur/
4. Soft Power: The Forces of Attraction in International Relations, by Hendrik W. Ohnesorge,Cham: springer, xxi+307 pp., Chinese Political Science Review, 2022; 7(4): 595–598; pp.595-598; Scopus, Q2,  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41111-021-00182-5
5. Immigration, Environment, and Security on the US-Mexico Border by Lisa Meierotto, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, vvi+187pp; The Social Science Journal, 53 (3), 2022, pp. 507-509; Scopus, Q1 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03623319.2020.1848287
6. Bangladesh's Economic Development, by Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021); South Asia Economic Journal, 22 (2); pp.250-253; 2021; Scopus;Q1, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13915614211034256
7. The Migration Myth in Policy and Practice: Dreams, Development and Despair by AKM Ahsan Ullah & Md Shahidul Haque ( Singapore: Springer, 2020), Journal of Contemporary Asia,51,1 ( 2021), Scopus,Q1, https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2020.175004
8. China's Belt and Road Initiative: Changing the Rules of Globalization, edited by Wenxian Zhang, llan Alon & Christoph Lattermann, (Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, pp.358. Hardcover. ISBN 978-3-319-75434-5), Intellectual Discourse, 27(1), 323-327. Scopus, Q2,  https://doi.org/10.31436/id.v27i1.1358
9. Comparative Political Systems by M. Emdadul Huq,  (Dhaka: Century Publications, 2019), xiii + 258 pp., South Asia Research 41(2), 2021. Scopushttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02627280211003351
10. China's Belt and Road Initiave: Impacts on Asia and Policy Agenda,by Pradumna B. Rana and Xianbai Ji Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xx + 186 pp., China Report, 57(4), pp. pp. 478–481; 2021; Scopus; Q2,  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00094455211047049
11. China’s Belt and Road Initiative in a Global Context, Volume I & II  byJawad Syed and  Yung-Hsiang Ying, China Report, 56(2), 2020; pp. 291-294; Scopus;Q2,  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0009445520916871
12. India in South Asia: Challenges and Management, edited by Amit Ranjan, Springer, Sigapore, 2019, 289+xxxiii., Strategic Analysis, 2020,  44(3) 292-294, available at here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09700161.2020.1767913
13. India-Bangladesh Border Disputes: History and Post-LBA Dynamics by Amit Ranjan, Springer, Singapore , 2018, 159 pp., Asian Journal of Political Science, 28(1), 67-70, Scopus; Q2,  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02185377.2019.1709981
14. Voting in a Hybrid Regime: Explaining the 2018 Bangladesh Election by Ali Riaz. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. Asian Politics & Policy, 12 (2), 2020, Scopus;Q2,  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aspp.12524
15.  Deterritorialised Identity and Transborder Movement edited by Nasir Uddin and Nasreen
    Chowdhory, Singapore:Springer Singapore, 2019. 228 pp.,  The AAG Review of Books, 2020, 8:1, 12-14, Scopus, https://doi.org/10.1080/2325548X.2020.1689043
16. Kashmir as a Borderland: The politics of space and belonging across the line of control by Antía Mato Bouzas, (Amsterdam NL: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), Hardback, 206 pp., Borders in Globalization Review, 1(1) (Fall 2019): 137-138, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly(Editor),  Centre for Global Studies,University of Victoria, Canada,  https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/bigreview/article/view/19275
17. The Belt and Road initiative: What Will China Offer the World in Its Rise, by Wang Yiwei, Beijing, China, New World Press, 2016, 214 pp., Asian Journal of Political Science,27(1), 152-156, (2019), Scopus, London: Routledge  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02185377.2019.1594324
18. Mapping China’s One Belt One Road Initiative, edited by Li Xing,  London: Palgrave Macmillan, Journal of China and International Relations (JCIR), Vol. 7, No, 1 (2019),pp. 135-139,Scopus,  Aalborg University, https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/jcir/article/view/6650
19. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor of the Belt and Road Initiative: Concept, Context and Assessment, by Siegfried O. Wolf,(Cham: Springer, 2020), xvii + 395;  South Asia Reserach , 40(1),pp.147-149, Scopus,Q2, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0262728019893125
20. Institutionalization of Parliament in Bangladesh: A Study of Donor Intervention for Reorganization and Development, by A.T.M. Obaidullah (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), vii + 338 pp;  South Asia Research, 39(3), 2019;  353–361, Scopus,Q2,  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026272801986891
21. Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond, edited by Reece Jones and Md. Azmeary Ferdoush,  Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, Netherlands, published in Migration Letters, April 2019, 16(2), pp. 346-350. 2018, Scopus  https://migrationletters.com/index.php/ml/article/view/741/606

COMMENTARIES: 

• Shahriar, S. (2025). Yunus’s Visit to China: A Geo-Political Perspective, South Asia Journal, Vol. 42, Spring 2025
• Shahriar, S. (2025). Chinese Soft Power Strategy in Bangladesh, South Asia Journal, January 3, 2025.
• Shahriar, S. (2024). The Belt and the Road Initiative: Where does Bangladesh Lie in China’s Global Grand Strategy Architecture?, Analysis, No. 25, a publication of Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University’s Institute for International Relations and Strategic Research (IIRSR), Asia and Indo-Pacific Studies (TAIPS), Turkey.“Kuşak ve Yol Girişimi: Bangladeş Çin'in Küresel Büyük Strateji Mimarisinin Neresinde Yer Alıyor?” başlıklı analizi ULİSA-Türkiye, Asya ve Hint-Pasifik Çalışmaları (TAIPS) tarafından yayımlandı.The analysis is available here: https://lnkd.in/d6ZHvYyc
• Shahriar, S. (June, 28, 2024). Bangladesh-India border haats : Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, South Asia Journal (New Jersey, USA).

 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (LATEST):

• Presented the key  findings of my paper to the conference at a two-day long conference titled, "Frontiers before borders: Perceptions of boundaries, territory and space in the past and present",  at the University of Dublin, Ireland.11 July – Saturday, 12 July 2025 (https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/abstracts-conference-social-media.pdf)    
•  Delivered a presentation in an international conference on the language movement, Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban, University of Dhaka, 29 April 2024.

SEMINAR TALKS:

1. Delivered a talk on the theme titled, "Understanding South Asian Geopolitics Through Bangladesh", at a seminar, American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), 8 July 2026, https://www.aiub.edu/aiub-hosts-international-seminar-on-understanding-south-asian-geopolitics-through-bangladesh-; 
2. I delivered a talk on Geopolitics: Making Sense of a Changing World (by John Rennie Short), organized by the SHSS Study Circle at the school of Humanities and Social Sciences on 3rd December 2025, NSU.
3. I was a discussant of a paper entitled, Post-July Uprising Bangladesh Foreign Policy-Recalibrating Relations with India by Dr. Mohammed Nuruzzaman, Professor of political science, NSU. It was organized by School of Humanities and Social Sciences on 20 October 2025.

 BOOK: 

           Shahriar, S. (2019). Understanding China's Belt & Road Initiative: The Institutional Economics Approach, Available at Amazon  https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Chinas-Belt-Road-Initiative/dp/6139977223

NEWSPAPER COLUMNS/OP-EDS:

•  "কল্যাণ রাষ্ট্রের প্রেরণা মুহম্মদ শহীদুল্লাহ", Daily Star, In Bangla জুলাই ২২, ২০২৫ ( Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah as a man of ideas on the formation of a "welfare state").

(https://bangla.thedailystar.net/literature/news-687976?fbclid=IwY2xjawLsh89leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHt_RfpcV--KvjzNwTQKTd2mRpLWZjz5ObwZM9qdqpvMoL6vcWZr2W0CvpFIL_aem_x5EUFKajWSDwpTlk34K9ZA&sfnsn=wa)

•   "Security dynamics in the Chittagong Hill Tracts" , New Age, 29 Sepetember 2024; Available at : https://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/246415/security-dynamics-in-cht
•  "Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Muslim Reneissance in South Asia", The Daily Star, 20 October, 2024; Available at : https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/focus/news/sir-syed-ahmad-khan-and-the-muslim-renaissance-south-asia-3732326

• High Impact Reserach Award, Fortune Institute of International Business, New Delhi, 2022
• Excellent Reviewer, 2021
• Outstanding Student Award, 2019, School of Graduate Studies, Northwest A&F University, China
• Chinese Government Scholarship, Beijing, 2015
• Omar-Sultan Foundation Award, Chattagram,1998

Ph.D.

1. Adjunct Faculty at DHP, NSU:  Fall, 2020-Fall, 2022 ( Fall, 2020; Summer 2021; Fall, 2021; Spring 2022; Summer 2022; Fall 2022)
2. Research Assistant ( Short-Term) , Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), Banani
3. Field Research Officer, World Bank Funded Project, Rangpur
4. Monitoring & Research Officer, Disaster Project in Host & Rohingya Camps, Cox's Bazar
5. Office Secretary, HEQEP, World Bank

1. Membership: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 
2. Life-Time Member, Bangladesh Historical Association (Member No. 1756)
3. Peer Reviewer:

   Journal of Contemporary China ( Routledge: Taylor & Francis, London)

   Journal of Borderlands Studies ( Routledge)

   Journal of International Trade and Economic Development (Routledge)

   Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Management ( Elsevier)

   Asian Journal of Political Science (Routledge)

   The Round Table ( Routledge)

   Applied Economics ( Routledge)

   Cambridge Review of International Affairs (Routledge)

   International Trade Journal ( Routledge)

   Area Developement and Policy( Routledge)

   Policy Studies (Routledge)

   Emerging Market Finance and Trade ( Routledge)

   Cogent Economics & Finance (Routledge)

   Cogent Social Sciences (Routledge)

   Applied Economics Letters (Routledge)

   Economic Papers (Wiley)

   Sustainable Developement (Wiley) 

   Economics and Politics ( Wiley)

   Asian Politics & Policy (Wiley)

   Managerial and Decision Economics (Wiley)

   African Developement Review (Wiley)

   Asia Pacific Economic Literature (Wiley)

   International Finance (Wiley)

   Eurasia Economic Review (Springer)

   Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies (Emerald)

   Fudan Journal of the Humanies & Social Sciences (Springer)

   Alternatives: Global, Local, Political (Sage)

   Australian Journal of Management (Sage)

   European Business Review (Emerald)

   International Journal of Emerging Markets (Emerald)

   Asian Journal of Economics and Banking (Emerald)

   Peace Economics, Peace Science & Public Policy (De Gruyter) 

   Frontiers of Economics in China ( Brill)

   Regional Statistics (Journal of the Hungarian Statistical Office)

   Sustainability (MDPI)

   Economies (MDPI)

   Border Crossing ( Transnational Press, London)

   PloS One,

   Frontiers in Psychology,

   Sage Open, etc.

    

1. China Studies
2. Geo-political History
3. Comparative Politics ( e.g. democratization, party politics, state, mass protests, ethnic insurgency etc.)
4. Border Security 
5. Historical Memory
6. Trade