What has Security in Context achieved in the past two years? And what does the future hold for the project? In this episode, we hear from some of the key people leading Security in Context’s research network.
Professor of Socioiogy at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Lisa Hajjar is a full professor of sociology at the University of California - Santa Barbara. Her research and writing focus on the laws of war and conflict, human rights and torture. She is the author of Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights, and was serving as the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut 2014-2016.
Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma.
Firat Demir’s main fields of research are economic development and open economy macroeconomics focusing on the issues of economic globalization, structural change, South-South trade and finance, long run development and growth, and political economy of development.
Rabie Nasser is a co-founder of the Syrian Center for Policy Research
Rabie Nasser is a co-founder of the Syrian Center for Policy Research, working as researcher in macroeconomic policies, inclusive growth, poverty, and crisis socioeconomic impact assessment.
He obtained a B.A. in Economics from Damascus University 1999. In 2000 he obtained a Diploma in Financial and Monetary Economics from Damascus University. He has MSc in Economics from Leicester University, UK. Before joining The Syrian Development Research Center, Nasser worked for State Planning Commission as Chief Economist and Director General of Macroeconomic Management Directorate in 2004 and 2005. Then, he worked as an Economic Researcher in Arab Planning Institute in Kuwait. Then He was a senior researcher working between 2009-2011 for the Syrian Development Research Center that conducts studies, evaluations, and applied research.
Associate Professor of Politics at Case Western Reserve University.
Research interests focus on economic development and state-society relations in the Middle East and Africa; specifically, Gulf Arab States and Levant; business-state relations, privatization, and decentralization; sub-state conflict and regional security. Professor Moore currently serves on the Editorial Committee of the Middle East Report and is a member of the Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle East Studies.
Assistant Professor of International Security & Geopolitics at the University of Rio de Janeiro.
Assistant Professor of International Security and Geopolitics at the Institute of International Relations and Defense at the University of Rio de Janeiro (IRID - UFRJ). He is also a Professor at the MBA in International Relations at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a Phd in International Relations at the University of São Paulo (San Tiago Dantas Program), Brazil, with a Double Degree at the University of California - Santa Barbara (UCSB, USA). He is Visiting Scholar of the University of California - Santa Barbara (USA) and at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris (France). He is an alumni at the Asian Forum on Global Governance (AFGG - India). Before he began his academic career, he worked as a journalist in Brazil and a conflict-resolution specialist in Humanitarian NGOs, with focus on the Middle East and North Africa.
Associate Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and Assistant Research Professor.
Shana Marshall is Associate Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and Assistant Research Professor. Her dissertation, “The New Politics of Patronage: The Arms Trade and Clientelism in the Arab World” examined how Middle East governments use arms sales agreements to channel financial resources and economic privileges to pro-regime elites. Prior to GW, Dr. Marshall was a fellow at The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. Her current research focuses on patterns of military entrepreneurship in Egypt, Jordan, and the UAE.
