• Global processes
• Asian Globalization
• Democratization
• Migration and Diaspora

Habibul Haque Khondker, BA, MA (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh), MA (Carleton, Canada), PhD (Pittsburgh, USA) is Professor of Sociology at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He served as co-chair of Research Committee on Social Transformations and Sociology of Development of the International Sociological Association. Previously, Khondker taught at the National University of Singapore. He has published articles on globalization, migration, state, civil society, democracy, military in politics, famine in International Sociology, The British Journal of Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Current Sociology, Journal of Consumer Culture, International Migration, Globalizations, Armed Forces and Society, Asian Journal of Social Sciences, and Oxford Handbook of Global Studies, among others. Khondker co-authored Globalization: East/West. (Sage, 2010; Turkish translation, 2019) with Bryan Turner. He co-edited Asia and Europe in Globalization: Continents, Regions, and Nations (Brill 2006) with Goran Therborn and 21^st Century Globalizations: Perspectives From the Gulf. (Dubai and Abu Dhabi: Zayed University Press, 2010) with Jan Nederveen Pieterse. He co-edited with Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Haeran Lim, COVID-19 and Governance (Routledge, 2021). He also co-edited with Olav Muurlink andAsif Bin Ali The Emergence of Bangladesh (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).