Najam in Eurasia Review on CPEC Transparency
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed for an article on the controversies associated with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor including its viability, alleged provincial preferences, cost and benefit, and lack of transparency.
Najam was quoted in a December 1, 2017 article in Eurasia Review entitled “State, Secrecy And CPEC.”
From the text of the article:
The same has also been highlighted by Adil Najam, Professor of International Relations at Boston University, who believes that “Keeping some secrets may indeed be inevitable. But let them be so few, so infrequent, so vital, and so unusual that triggering secrecy requires not a public list or standard procedures, but deliberation, and maybe even introspection, at the highest levels. When in doubt, governments should err on the side of openness”.
Adil Najam is the inaugural dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and professor of International Relations and Earth & Environment. Earlier, he served as vice chancellor of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), in Lahore, Pakistan, and as the director of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. He has also taught at MIT and at the Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His research focuses on issues of global governance and global public policy, including those related to diplomacy, climate change, South Asia, Muslim countries, and human development.