Adib Farhadi, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor & Faculty Director of Executive Education at the University of South Florida, College of Arts and Sciences. 

BIO

Dr. Adib Farhadi is a tenured Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict at the University of South Florida, where he also serves as the Faculty Director of the Executive Education Program. His research adopts an interdisciplinary approach, examining the complex intersections of geoeconomics, geopolitics, and human dynamics, with a particular emphasis on the Great Power Competition in the “Silk Road” region of Central and South Asia. In addition to his academic roles, Dr. Farhadi serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Great Power Competition book series, Co-Principal Investigator for the Great Power Competition Initiative and the Global Influence Index, and Faculty Advisor to the Global and National Security Institute.

Dr. Farhadi was awarded the prestigious University of South Florida Distinguished Service Award for 2022-2023.

Formerly, Dr. Farhadi served in senior positions for Afghanistan and extensively advised and contributed research for the United States government, the United Nations, and other international organizations. He is a frequent presenter on religion, conflict and peacebuilding, Great Power Competition, Sustainable Development, Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), and the geoeconomics of the Middle East and CASA region.

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Academic Publications

Afghanistan’s Lithium as Strategic U.S. Focus in the Great Power Competition

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_3

The Great Power Competition Volume 1: Regional Perspectives on Peace and Security

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4

 “Theology” in the Public University

https://www.proquest.com/openview/66a5f6b474edbd77a86142e05a7d6430/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

The Downside of the U.S. Marginalizing Economics in Great Power Competition

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_14

The Geopolitics of Afghan-Iranian Relations

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27286610

Pre-revolutionary Iran and Great Power Rivalry

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_9

Surfing the Conflux: Technology, Information Environments and Great Power Competition Convergence

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_1

Afghanistan: Changing Dynamics of Peace and Conflict

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_7

Seize the Opportunity: Craft a Smart Power Strategy for the Central Region

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_13

Central Asia, Great Power Competition, and Achieving Peace in Afghanistan

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_4

Winning the Great Game in Afghanistan: Bottom Up, Not Top Down

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_6

China and the United States in the Middle East: Between Dependency and Rivalry

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_18

Consistency of Civil-Military Relations in the Israel Defense Forces

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/795905

Great Power Competition in Information Environment in the CASA Region

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_16

A Review of Frank McKenzie’s The Melting Point by Adib Farhadi

https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol17/iss4/7/

The Role of Muslim Women in Nigeria’s Socioeconomic Development Through the Implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

https://www.proquest.com/openview/0e51be1ee7b3c7a9a4e009abb3110c1e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Dynamics and Evolution of Humanitarian and Development Aid to Afghanistan

https://www.proquest.com/openview/c70ad629bffc6a249caede9a0ad622a6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2026366&diss=y

Wheat Trade between Russia and Iran: a Discontinuous Trend

https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/101710

UNLOCKING OPPORTUNITIES: AFGHANISTAN’S ROLE AS A GATEWAY TO CENTRAL ASIA FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL ASIAN REGIONS

https://jsju.com.cn/index.php/JSJU/article/view/26

The Cooperation of Russia and Iran-Led Shia Axis: Its Nature and Implications for the U.S. Strategy in the Middle East

https://www.proquest.com/openview/73fcf1b87fce84e3636b0af5df863e23/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

تأثيرات الفيسبوك على الأمن الفكري من وجهة نظر المرأة المصرية:

https://journals.ekb.eg/article_367191.html

A Review of Frank McKenzie’s The Melting Point by Adib Farhadi

https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol17/iss4/7/

The Role of Muslim Women in Nigeria’s Socioeconomic Development Through the Implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

https://www.proquest.com/openview/0e51be1ee7b3c7a9a4e009abb3110c1e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Dynamics and Evolution of Humanitarian and Development Aid to Afghanistan

https://www.proquest.com/openview/c70ad629bffc6a249caede9a0ad622a6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2026366&diss=y

Wheat Trade between Russia and Iran: a Discontinuous Trend

https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/101710

UNLOCKING OPPORTUNITIES: AFGHANISTAN’S ROLE AS A GATEWAY TO CENTRAL ASIA FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL ASIAN REGIONS

https://jsju.com.cn/index.php/JSJU/article/view/26

The Cooperation of Russia and Iran-Led Shia Axis: Its Nature and Implications for the U.S. Strategy in the Middle East

https://www.proquest.com/openview/73fcf1b87fce84e3636b0af5df863e23/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

تأثيرات الفيسبوك على الأمن الفكري من وجهة نظر المرأة المصرية:

https://journals.ekb.eg/article_367191.html

Post-9/11 Radicalization Theory and Its Impact on Violent Extremism

https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-319-91875-4_8

The Great Power Competition Volume 3 – Cyberspace: The Fifth Domain

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-04586-8

The Great Power Competition Volume 2 – Contagion Effect: Strategic Competition in the COVID-19 Era

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-90390-9

From the Great Power Competition to Great Power Cooperation: Strategic Lessons from a Pandemic

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90390-9_1

Countering Violent Extremism in Central Asia and South Asia: Islamophobia and Cyber-Radicalization in the Digital Era

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04586-8_5

Countering Violent Extremism

https://books.google.ae/books?hl=en&lr=&id=gaiJEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA83&dq=dr++%22adib+farhadi%22&ots=SsgFEJS4jh&sig=

M3xn0yIOBiIEAHGzf0ZJ4x3xFMo&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=dr%20%20%22adib%20farhadi%22&f=false

Building Trust and Advancing U.S. Geoeconomic Strength Through Public–Private Partnership Stakeholder Capitalism

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90390-9_5

The Cyber Pandemic that Could Redefine the Great Power Competition: Preparing the Defense Industrial Base

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04586-8_11

Interpreting 9/11: Religious or Political Event?

https://www.proquest.com/openview/a12a0366bba26e6743f62de79fe24ad5/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Handbook of Security Science

https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-91875-4

Iran and the United States: The Way Forward

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90390-9_2

Afganistan-Çin Ilişkilerinin Rekabet-Iş Birliği Analizi

https://www.proquest.com/openview/3669b69edc42ad87fe4dca937328e15e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2026366&diss=y

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Gray Rhinos, Complexity, Prediction, and National Security

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90390-9_10

MOTIVATIONS AND LIMITATIONS IN IRAN-CHINA RELATIONS

https://calhoun.nps.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/80d357f6-9e75-4d84-a213-fcedb653a604/content

Africa’s Strategic Pivots: From China’s Rise to Tradeoff Between Battling Covid-19 and Violent Extremism

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90390-9_16

Cognitive Security and Emotional Warfare: The Science and Practice for Understanding, Analyzing and Preventing the Spread of Violent Extremism in the CENTCOM AOR

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90390-9_14

Cyber Leadership in the Era of the Great Power Competition

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04586-8_13

Global Perspectives: Cyber Alliances and Partnerships in Great Power Competition

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04586-8_12

Counter Intuitiveness of Influence Science, Social Judgment Theory, and Strategic Messaging in Great Power Competition

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90390-9_17

Anti-Democratic Malign Influence in the Time of COVID-19

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90390-9_7

Cyber and Great Power Competition in the Western Hemisphere

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04586-8_6

Leveraging Talent to Dominate in Cyber War—An Army Perspective

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04586-8_16

Cybersecurity and Strategic Deterrence: Changing Adversary’s Risk Versus Reward Calculations

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04586-8_3

The War for Cyber Talent: Can the US Win It?

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04586-8_15

The Future of Cyber-Enabled Influence Operations: Emergent Technologies, Disinformation, and the Destruction of Democracy

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04586-8_10

The Cyber-Grand Strategy Gap

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04586-8_2

Russia Views Central Asia/South Asia-The Immediate Threat and Longer-Term Opportunity

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90390-9_6

Afghanistan’s Lithium as Strategic U.S. Focus in the Great Power Competition

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_3

The Great Power Competition Volume 1: Regional Perspectives on Peace and Security

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4

 “Theology” in the Public University

https://www.proquest.com/openview/66a5f6b474edbd77a86142e05a7d6430/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

The Downside of the U.S. Marginalizing Economics in Great Power Competition

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_14

The Geopolitics of Afghan-Iranian Relations

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27286610

Pre-revolutionary Iran and Great Power Rivalry

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_9

Surfing the Conflux: Technology, Information Environments and Great Power Competition Convergence

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_1

Afghanistan: Changing Dynamics of Peace and Conflict

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_7

Seize the Opportunity: Craft a Smart Power Strategy for the Central Region

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_13

Central Asia, Great Power Competition, and Achieving Peace in Afghanistan

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_4

Winning the Great Game in Afghanistan: Bottom Up, Not Top Down

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_6

China and the United States in the Middle East: Between Dependency and Rivalry

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_18

Consistency of Civil-Military Relations in the Israel Defense Forces

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/795905

Great Power Competition in Information Environment in the CASA Region

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_16

Afghanistan’s Lithium as Strategic U.S. Focus in the Great Power Competition

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_3

The Great Power Competition Volume 1: Regional Perspectives on Peace and Security

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4

 “Theology” in the Public University

https://www.proquest.com/openview/66a5f6b474edbd77a86142e05a7d6430/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

The Downside of the U.S. Marginalizing Economics in Great Power Competition

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_14

The Geopolitics of Afghan-Iranian Relations

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27286610

Pre-revolutionary Iran and Great Power Rivalry

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_9

Surfing the Conflux: Technology, Information Environments and Great Power Competition Convergence

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_1

Afghanistan: Changing Dynamics of Peace and Conflict

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_7

Seize the Opportunity: Craft a Smart Power Strategy for the Central Region

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_13

Central Asia, Great Power Competition, and Achieving Peace in Afghanistan

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_4

Winning the Great Game in Afghanistan: Bottom Up, Not Top Down

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_6

China and the United States in the Middle East: Between Dependency and Rivalry

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_18

Consistency of Civil-Military Relations in the Israel Defense Forces

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/795905

Great Power Competition in Information Environment in the CASA Region

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_16

Three Theorists on Religious Violence in an Islamic Context: Karen Armstrong, Mark Juergensmeyer, and William T. Cavanaugh

https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/7756/

Economic statecraft and US foreign policy: reducing the demand for violence

https://books.google.ae/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ib29DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT4&dq=dr++%22adib+farhadi%22&ots=VLFuUXo8Dh&sig=5GStpLPdSkF

R94mbJTKM6GV7R30&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=dr%20%20%22adib%20farhadi%22&f=false

The Public Cost of Private Security in Afghanistan: Briefing Paper

https://www.radio-utopie.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pubcost_sherman_vididom.pdf

Building a New Afghanistan: The Value of Success, the Cost of Failure

https://www.ariaye.org/archive/music/ketab/cooperation/english/Building.pdf

‘Good’ state vs. ‘bad’ warlords? A critique of state-building strategies in Afghanistan

https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/13314/

Winning the peace: An American strategy for post-conflict reconstruction

https://books.google.ae/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Kq2Dbt0X7I8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=dr++%22adib+farhadi%22&ots=u71U

jCbHLM&sig=w5PaGWRX0absVgqravxnlCGpimE&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Seminars & Conferences

Description

Understanding Afghanistan: From Relief to Development.

The purpose of this event is fourfold: to raise public consciousness of the development gains which have been achieved over the past decade in Afghanistan partly as a consequence of Australia’s financial, military and technical support.

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Adib Farhadi, Ph.D.

Cooper Hall, Tampa, FL 33620, USA

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