Selections from the Curriculum Vitae of Ibrahim Karawan

Employment

-Director, Middle East Center, the University of Utah, 2000-present.

-The Sam Rich Scholar for International Affairs, College of Social Sciences, the University of Utah, 2003-2009.

-Director, Middle East Program, Senior Fellow, and Member of the Directing Staff at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, IISS, London, 1995-1997.

Publications

"Security Sector Reform in the Middle East?" in Theodore Winkler and Heiner Hanggi, eds., The Challenges of Security Sector Governance (LIT Verlag, Munster, Germany, 2003).

"Time for an Audit," The Journal of Democracy (published by MIT Press), vol. 13, no. 3 (July 2002).

"Identity and Foreign Policy: The Case of Egypt," in Shibley Telhami and Michael Barnett, eds., Identity and Foreign Policy Making in the Middle East (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002).

"What Went Wrong, If Anything?: Social and Economic Development in the Islamic World," in U.S. Relations With The Islamic World (Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 2002).

"Islamist Militancy Reassessed," in War on Terror: The Middle East Dimension (Washington DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2002).

"Violence as a Strategic Choice: The Case of Radical Islamist Groups," The Annual Book of the State Studies Institute (Salt Lake City, Utah 2002).

"The Erosion of Consensus: GCC States Perceptions of a Changing Region," in Gary Sick and Larry Potter, eds. Mutual Security in the Gulf (New York: Pelgrave Press, 2002). Foreign Affairs selected this volume as one of the best five books published on the Middle East in the United States during 2002.

"Implications for the Arab world: The Intellectual and the Street," in the Al Aksa Intifada: Causes and Implications for U.S. Interests (Washington DC: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 2001).

"Nuclear Temptations: The Middle East as a Case Study," in Michael Kraig and James Henderson, eds., The U.S. Strategies for Regional Security (Warrenton, Virginia: The Stanely Foundation, 2001).

"The Muslim World: Uneasy Ambivalence," in Ramesh Thakur and Albrecht Schnabel, eds., Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention (New York: United Nations University Press, 2000).

"Political Parties Between State Power and the Islamist Opposition," in I. William Zartman and Charles E. Butterworth. eds., Between the State and Islam (Cambridge University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Press, 2000).

"Arab Perspectives on Middle East Security." in Barry R. Schneider, ed.,
Middle East Security and the Shadow of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation (Air University Press, 1999).

"A Middle East without Nuclear Weapons?" in Ramesh Takur, ed., Nuclear Weapons Free Zones (London: Macmillan Press, 1998).

"No War, No Peace," IISS Strategic Survey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

The Islamist Impasse (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

"Islam," in Peter Sluglett and Marion Farouk-Sluglett, eds., The Times Guide to Middle East (London: Harper and Row, 1997).

"Arab States and Islamist Groups: Dominos Do Not Fall," Middle East Economic Digest, (January 1997).

"Egypt: The Struggle with Militancy," IISS Strategic Survey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

"Egypt," in Constantine Danapoulos and Cynthia Watson, eds., The Political Role of the Military (London: Greenwood Press, 1996).

"Takfir: Excommunication in Modern Islam," in John Esposito, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

"Sadat and the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Revisited”, The International Journal of Middle East Studies (Cambridge University Press), 26, 2 (May 1994).

"Arab Dilemmas in the 1990s: Breaking Taboos and Searching for Signposts," The Middle East Journal (Indiana University Press), 48, 3 (Summer 1994).

"Al-Siyasat al-'Arabiyah," [Arab Politics], al-Sivasah al-Dawliwah (al Ahram Publishers), 30, 117 (July 1994).

"Monarchs, Mullahs, and Marshals: Islamic Regimes?" The Annals of the American Society of Political and Social Sciences (Sage Publications), 524 (November 1992.

"Relstamization Movements According to Kepel: On Striking Back and Striking Out." Contention (Indiana University Press). 2, I (Fall 1992).

'The Relative Decline of the Center: Egypt as a Case Study," Journal of Arab Affairs, 8. 2 (Fall 1989).

"Egypt's Defense Policy," in Stephanie Neumann, ed., Defense Planning in Less-Industrialized States (Lexington: D.C. Heath and co., 1984).

"Egypt and the Western Alliance," in Steven Spiegel, ed., The Middle East and the Western Alliance (London: Allen and Unwin, 1982).

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