
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.
BOOKS
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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
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
Dynamics and Evolution of Humanitarian and Development Aid to Afghanistan
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
تأثيرات الفيسبوك على الأمن الفكري من وجهة نظر المرأة المصرية:
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
Dynamics and Evolution of Humanitarian and Development Aid to Afghanistan
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
تأثيرات الفيسبوك على الأمن الفكري من وجهة نظر المرأة المصرية:
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
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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?
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
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
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
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
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A Dynamic Model of Stabilization and Reconstruction
https://www.proquest.com/openview/48011a5ba11e5cac7d8e57d4cff9ce3e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750
India in a reconnecting Eurasia: Foreign economic and security interests
https://books.google.ae/bookshl=en&lr=&id=LKNBDAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=dr++
Stabilization for Sustainable Economic Growth in Fragile States: The Case for an Afghanistan Trade-Based Regional Economic Integration “Silk Road” Strategy
https://researchsystem.canberra.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/33679980/file
Advanced Search About Iranica Support Iranica
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Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan : the role of post-conflict reconstruction
https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/entities/publication/f8503891-4b42-4c61-96ef-75d46ae48540
Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006-1089 CE): an early Sufi master
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Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror
China’s interests in Afghanistan: current projects and future prospects
https://calhoun.nps.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/85cc8783-0d76-4af7-bb7d-c691a2521362/content
Afghanistan in the post-cold war era
Iniciativy New Silk Roads
The Public Cost of Private Security in Afghanistan: Briefing Paper
https://www.radio-utopie.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pubcost_sherman_vididom.pdf
Conclusion: Rethinking Statebuilding in Afghanistan
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13533310601114392
Conclusion: Challenges and New Directions for Canada
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Public Security Management in Post-Conflict Afghanistan: Challenges to Building Local Ownership
Reconciling effective aid and global security: Implications for the emerging international development architecture
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/196282/1/GEG-WP-019.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
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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.
Dr. Adib Farhadi, Assistant Professor of the Department of Religious Studies and the Faculty Director of Executive Education at the University of South Florida, introduces GNSI Tampa Summit 3, featuring the 9th Great Power Competition Conference: Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Strategic Competition.
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Adib Farhadi, Ph.D.
Cooper Hall, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
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