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ABOUT
Mehran Kamrava is Professor of Government at Georgetown University Qatar. He also directs the Iranian Studies Unit at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Kamrava is the author of a number of journal articles and books, including, most recently, A Concise History of Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020); Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf (Cornell University Press, 2018); Inside the Arab State (Oxford University Press, 2018); The Impossibility of Palestine: History, Geography, and the Road Ahead (Yale University Press, 2016); Qatar: Small State, Big Politics (Cornell University Press, 2015); The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War, 3rd ed. (University of California Press, 2013); and Iran’s Intellectual Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2008). His edited books include The Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics (2020); The Great Game in West Asia: Iran, Turkey, and the Southern Caucasus (2017); Fragile Politics: Weak States in the Greater Middle East (2016); Beyond the Arab Spring: The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East (2015); The Political Economy of the Persian Gulf (2012); The Nuclear Question in the Middle East (2012); and The International Politics of the Persian Gulf (2011).
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Comparative
Development
Foreign Relations
Iranian Studies
Political Economy
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arab States
Iran
Specialties
Intel Currents In Iran & The Islamic World
Pol Econ Of Dev In Mashriq
State Formation & State-society Relations In ME
Languages
Persian (native)
Education
PhD
| 1989
| Soc/Pol Sci
| U of Cambridge, England
Abstracts
Re-Making the Persian Gulf: Qatar, the UAE, and the Changing Geopolitics of the Middle East
The Consequences of Resilient Rentierism in the Persian Gulf
State-Building and Political Consolidation in Qatar
Qatari Foreign Policy and the Exercise of Subtle Power
The State and the Changing Social Contract and in the GCC
Civil-Military Relations in the Islamic Republic
State, Communal, and Individual Identities in Iran
Iran Looks East: Context, Causes, and Process
