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Dr. Ameem Lutfi
Assistant Professor
Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences
ameem.lutfi@lums.edu.pk
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Journal Publications

"Separating Arms and the Arms that Carry Them: Making Military Labor in Interwar Bahrain" Critical Military Studies (forthcoming) (2026)

"Shrines Unyielding: Inter-Asian Networks and the Enduring Power of Sacred Spaces" Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (2023)

"Our City, Your Crisis: The Baloch of Karachi and the Partition of British India" South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Co-Authored (2016)

"Pretenders, Entrepreneurs, and Mercurians: Conceptualizing inter-Asian Informal Diplomacy" History and Anthropology (2021)

"Portfolio-Soldiers: Bazaar, Barrack, and Migrant Military-Labor in Bahrain" American Ethnologist (revising, post R&R) (n.d.)

"Strongmen and informal diplomats: Toward an anthropology of international relations" History and Anthropology. Co-Authored (2021)

Book

Strongman s Brokers: Old Diasporas and New Networks in the Age of Populism Routledge, New York. Edited Volume. (2023)

Legacies of 9/11 and the Global War on Terror: Volume I, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. Co-Edited.

The Changing Character of War in the Middle East and Beyond, MEI Insights Series,Singapore. Co-Edited (2022)

Monograph

Conquest Without Rule: Mobility and Protection in the Indian Ocean (in preparation)

Other

Editor Reviewed: "The Diplomatic Agent" The Oxford Handbook of the Cultural History of Global Diplomacy, c. 1750-2000. Oxford University Press, Oxford (under contract) (2025)

Editor Reviewed: "The Baloch Networks Behind Bahrain s Regime Stability" MEI Insights (No. 189) September 6th. Middle East Institute, NUS (2018)

Editor Reviewed: "Regulating the Trade in Soldiers: Lessons from Efforts to Regulate the Arms Trade" MEI Insights (No. 265). Middle East Institute, NUS (2021)

Editor Reviewed: "Disentangling Pakistan s Entanglement in Afghanistan" MEI Insights (No. 274). Middle East Institute, NUS (2022)

Paper Presentation

"Portfolio Military Laboring in the Gulf," HSS Seminar, Lahore (2023)

"Pay-for-Use Security," Trading the World Workshop, Copenhagen (2019)

"Entrepreneurial Diplomacy," Rethinking Diplomacy Workshop, Singapore (2019)

"Trade and Rule in the Indian Ocean," Order Beyond Borders, Karachi (2017)

"Mapping Water (ine)Quality," Lahore Biennale, Lahore (2024)

"A Persian Gulf without US Protection," Inter-Asia Conference, Singapore (2019)

"Separating Arms and Arms That Carry Them," Oriental Institute, Prague (2018)

"Motifs As Medium for Diasporic Baloch," AAS in Asia, Yogyakarta (2024)

"From Soldiers to Military-Labor," In Service of Security Workshop, Singapore (2024)

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