Ariel I. Ahram

• Ph.D., Government, Georgetown University, 2008
• M.A., Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 2006
• B.A., Politics, History, and Islamic Studies, Brandeis University, 2001

• International security and terrorism
• Cross-national and cross-regional analysis
• Environmental security
• Social movements
• Middle East politics

• GIA 5314: Middle East Geopolitics
• GIA/PSCI 5514: Global Security
• GIA/UAP 5464: Qualitative Research Methods in Global Studies
• GIA/UAP/PSCI 5584: Environmental Politics and Policy
• GIA/UAP 5274: Comparative Social Movements

Books

• War and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (Polity Press, forthcoming in Autumn 2020).
• Break All the Borders: Separatism and the Reshaping of the Middle East (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
• Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), co-editor with Rudra Sil and Patrick Köllner.
• Proxy Warriors: The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias (Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2011).

Articles

• “The Decline and Fall of the Arab State,” co-author with Ellen Lust, Survival 58, no. 2 (2016): 7-34.
• “Pro-Government Militias, Regimes, and the Repertoires of Illicit Violence,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 39, no. 2 (2016): 207-226.
• “Sexual Violence and the Making of ISIS,” Survival 57, no. 3 (2015): 57-78.
• “Development, Counterinsurgency, and the Destruction of the Iraqi Marshes,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 47, no. 3 (2015): 447-466.

Currently serving as Primary Investigator on Escaping Proxy Wars in the Middle East, a $400,000 project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

• International security, particularly in the Middle East
• Terrorism
• Development strategies
• Environmental change and human ecology
• Multi-Method Methodology