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The Sigur Center for Asian Studies strives to increase the quality and broaden the scope of scholarly research and publication on Asia, promote US-Asian scholarly interaction, and educate a new generation of students, scholars, and policymakers.

Thanks to an active program of publishing, teaching, public events, and policy engagement, the Sigur Center offers the largest Asian Studies program in metro DC, with more than 60 affiliated faculty. Together with GWIKS, Sigur supports the East Asia National Resource Center, a Title VI Center of academic excellence. Sigur also administers the prestigious Foreign Language and Area Studies awards, which funds GW students to intensively study Japanese, Korean, or Chinese.

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Shabnam Yousaf

Visiting Scholar at the Sigur Center

Shabnam Yousaf is a visiting scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott school of international Affairs, the George Washington University. She is a PhD scholar at the Area Study Center for Africa, North & South America, Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan. Her doctoral research is focused on US-China competition and its impact on the South Asian region. Her research potential is extensive and multifaceted with a versatile blend of Sociological, Anthropological and International Affairs expertise. She has been engaged with interdisciplinary research projects that allow her to bridge the gap across disciplines. She holds a leverage to conduct comparative analysis with holistic approaches. She has also served with civil and military based organizations.

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4/26/2023 | Global Society Is David Shambaugh’s Classroom

On April 26th, 2023, Gaston Sigur Professor David Shambaugh was profiled in an article for GW Today titled “Global Society is David Shambaugh’s Classroom”. Global Society is David Shambaugh’s Classroom Originally published...

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Sigur Center for Asian Studies

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