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Rubiat Saimum is a PhD student in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. Prior to this, he served as a lecturer in the Department of Maritime Security and Strategic Studies at Bangladesh Maritime University. He is currently a South Asian Future Fellow at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research (CSDR) and a former Junior Research Fellow at the NATO Association of Canada.

Current Interests

• International Security
• Indo-Pacific Geopolitics
• South Asian Affairs

Recent Publications

• Saimum, R. (2025). From Hardware to Heartware: China's Evolving Military Relations with Bangladesh. In Xavier, C. & Jacob, J. T. (Eds). How China Engages South Asia: In the Open and Behind the Scenes (pp. 107-117). Centre for Social and Economic Progress. Retrieved from
• Shahid, R. & Saimum, R. (2023) ‘Navigating the troubled waters: ‘maritimization' of Bangladesh’s foreign policy’, Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs,
• Saimum, R. (2020). ‘The Prospect of Belt and Road Initiative in the Context of Bangladesh’. China Report, 56(4), 464-483, Sage Publishing.
• Saimum, R. (2020). ‘ASEAN’s Rohingya Dilemma: Limits of Regional Co-operation’. In Charting a Sustainable Future of ASEAN in Business and Social Sciences (pp. 339-348). Springer, Singapore.

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