Background

Haziq Hakimi is a PhD candidate in Comparative Asian Studies at NUS. Prior to joining NUS, he received his B.A. degree in International Relations from Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) and M.A. degree in Strategic and Defence Studies from the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).

His doctoral research focuses on autonomous and decolonial approaches to international relations, foreign policy and security studies.

Asian Languages

Haziq is a native Bahasa Melayu and English speaker. He has an advanced command of the Turkish language (CEFR - C1), and an intermediate proficiency in Arabic (CEFR – B1).

Research Interests

Haziq’s research interests lie in International Relations Theory, Great Power Politics, Critical Security Studies, Historical Sociology, Decolonial Thought and Social Theory.

For his doctoral thesis, Haziq is interested in expanding the decolonial critique of international relations by proposing an alternative theoretical approach to international relations based on the School of Autonomous Knowledge, a social science tradition that emerged in Southeast Asia in the 1960s. He plans on undertaking a comparative study of Malaysian and Turkish foreign policy and conceptions of security through that “autonomous” approach.

For any queries or potential research collaboration, you can reach Haziq at haziq@u.nus.edu.