Najam in The News on Sunday on the Global Trend Toward Populism
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 United States presidential elections as well as the global trend of electing populist leaders.
Najam was interviewed for a November 13, 2016 article in The News on Sunday entitled “Hillary Ends Her Quest.”
From the text of the article:
Adil Najam, dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, mused that Donald Trump’s victory exemplifies a disturbing global trend towards populism, authoritarianism, and ultra-nationalism. “He is just one of a list of such leaders who have assumed power — Trump (USA), Dutert (Philippines), Erdogan (Turkey), Abe (Japan), Modi (India), Putin (Russia), Xi Jinping (China), and more.”
You can read the entire article here.
Adil Najam is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School and was a former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore Pakistan. He had started his career as a newspaper reporter in his native Pakistan, including covering the 1988 election campaign of Benazir Bhutto that ended with her becoming Pakistan’s first female Prime Minister. Part of his research has focussed on Muslim and Pakistani diaspora in the United States. He is the author of Pakistanis in America: Portrait of a Giving Community (Harvard University Press, 2006) and co-editor of How Immigrants Impact their Homelands (Duke University Press, 2013). Learn more about him here.