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Hassan Bashir

Associate Professor

I am a political scientist specializing in political theory and international relations. My research examines how intercultural encounters shape political identities, political thought, and political order in a globalized world. This research agenda encompasses three interconnected strands. The first explores the politics of civilizational narratives in historical and contemporary contexts, contributing to comparative political theory and debates on identity, difference, and coexistence. The second extends this comparative perspective to ethical questions, with particular attention to non-Western intellectual traditions, professional ethics, and the moral challenges at the intersection of local commitments and global responsibilities. A third and evolving strand of my research focuses on environmental sustainability in the Global South. I approach sustainability as a wicked problem and examine how political identities, competing ethical commitments, and institutional and resource constraints shape environmental governance and adaptation to climate change.

I have received research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, the Qatar National Research Fund, and the U.S. National Science Foundation. I am a Fulbright Fellow and an H. B. Earhart Fellow..

Current Areas of Teaching

GINS2000 Ethics and Globalization

GINS3010 Global and International Theory

GINS4090 Honours Seminar

GINS4908 Honours Research Project Supervision

MGDS4900/5900 Special Topics: Diaspora as Disruption: Mobility, Hybridity and Identity

GINS3300 Study Abroad: Afterlives of Empire: Experiencing London as a post-colonial Metropolis

 

Select Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

Bashir, Hassan. 2013. Europe and the Eastern Other: Comparative Perspectives on Politics, Religion and Culture before the Enlightenment (Rowman & Littlefield: Lexington Books)

Gray, K., Bashir, H., & Keck, S. (Eds.). (2016). Western higher education in Asia and the Middle East: Politics, economics, and pedagogy. Lexington Books.

Bashir, H., & Gray, P. W. (Eds.). (2015). Deconstructing global citizenship: Political, ethical, and cultural perspectives. Lexington Books.

Murphy, C., Gardoni, P., Bashir, H., Masad, E., & Harris, C. E. (Eds.). (2015). Engineering ethics for a globalized world. Springer.

Bashir, H., & Roye, S. (Eds.). (2014). Experiencing otherness: Multidisciplinary perspectives [E-book]. Inter-Disciplinary Press; Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848883796

Bashir, H., Gray, P. W., & Masad, E. (Eds.). (2013). Coexisting in a globalized world: Key themes in inter-professional ethics. Lexington Books.

 

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Bashir, H., & Nawaz, W. (2026). The green iron cage: Structural, cognitive, and paradoxical limits of corporate sustainability. In A. Agarwal & P. Kumar (Eds.), The dark side of ESG and sustainable development: Inequality, market failure, and global North–South divisions. Emerald Publishing. (Forthcoming)

Bashir, H. (2025). Status and the city: Rethinking small state agency through Qatar’s urban transformation. Manuscript under review, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. https://doi.org/10.1177/03043754251409467

Bashir, H., Bashir, H., & Fanti, S. (2025). A century in the making: Medical imaging, nuclear medicine, and the transformation of global healthcare. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-025-07499-2

Nawaz, W., & Bashir, H. (2022). Managing the unintended consequences of radical sustainability innovations: The case of catastrophic failure of the leaded gasoline industry. Journal of Cleaner Production, 375, 134175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134175

Eslami, Z. R., Graham, K. M., & Bashir, H. (2020). Higher education in Qatar: A multidimensional analysis using the road-mapping framework. In S. Dimova & J. Kling (Eds.), Integrating content and language in multilingual universities (pp. 115–129). Springer.

Galindo, K. B., Eslami, Z. R., & Bashir, H. (2018). Culture’s influence on social network vulnerabilities for ethnic minorities in rural disaster events. Journal of International Humanitarian Action. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-018-0047-2

Bashir, H., & Gray, K. (2016). The global university in the GCC: The transfer and transformation of mission and governance. In K. Gray, H. Bashir, & S. Keck (Eds.), Western higher education in Asia and the Middle East: Politics, economics, and pedagogy. Lexington Books.

Bashir, H., & Jehangir, H. B. (2015). (Re)situating the West’s cultural others in international relations theory: Toward joint East–West perspectives. In H. Bashir & P. W. Gray (Eds.), Global citizenship and multiculturalism: Political, cultural, and ethical perspectives (pp. 17–37). Lexington Books.

Bashir, H., & Gray, P. W. (2015). Arms of the republic: Republicanism and militia reforms during the U.S. Constitutional Convention and the First Federal Congress, 1787–1791. History of Political Thought, 36(2), 310–330.

Bashir, H. (2014). Umma. In M. Gibbons, D. Coole, F. Kennan, & E. Ellis (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (pp. 3749–3751). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118474396.wbept1015

 

Research Reports and Policy Briefs

Bashir, H., & Raza, K. (2026). International students at the intersection of housing and higher education in Canada: A scoping review. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. https://sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/research-in-action/evidence-briefs/2026/Bashir.aspx

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