Prof. Piscatori at CAIS in 2016

Prof. Piscatori at CAIS in 2016
Thursday 10 December 2015

Professor James Piscatori will take up a position at CAIS in January 2016.

Professor Piscatori has recently vacated the position of Chair of the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University in the UK. Prior to this he held the position of Professor and Deputy Director at CAIS. Before that he was Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford; and Professor of International Politics in the University of Aberystwyth.  In addition he was Associate Profesor in the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University.  He has also been Senior Fellow at two research institutions -- the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.  He has served on several international collaborative committees such as the Committee for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies of the Social Science Reseach Council, and was co-editor of a series on Muslim Politics for Princeton University Press.

Professor Piscatori's research has centred on two themes:  Islam and international relations; and Islamic political thought, particularly as it relates to democratisation in Middle Eastern societies.  His area of focus has been principally, but not exclusively, on the Arab states of the Gulf.  Recently, he has been working on pan-Islamism and Islamic transnationalism, and specifically investigating the contemporary meaning of the ummah (community of the faith).

His publications include: Muslim Politics, Princeton University Press, 2004; ( Editor with Paul Dresch, Monarchies and Nations: Globalization and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf, I.B. Tauris, 2005; (Editor with Akbarzadeh, Shahram,, Piscatori, James, MacQueen, Benjamin & Amin Saikal, American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East: From Bush to Obama,  Routledge, 2012; 'Secular Aspirations and Political Islam in the Arab Middle East: The 1950s - reconsidered',. The Maghreb Review, 37(1): pp 3-32. He recently wrote a piece on ISIS for the East Asia Forum.

In 2016 he will be taking courses in the Postgraduate Coursework program. He will be offering: Dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Approaches to the Study of Modern Muslim Societies, Islam in World Politics and Islam and Democracy.

 

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