Senior Tenured Professor of International Relations/Geopolitics & International Management

CURRENT FIELDS OF RESEARCH & WORK

The Belt & Road Initiative in the Middle East & Africa, Shanghai International Studies University; Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences & Brookings in Doha, January 2018.

Middle East Rivalries Project: “The Algerian-Moroccan Rivalry: Constructing the Imaginary Enemy,” Qatar University, October 2016-present.

Middle Power Politics, “Middle Power Aspirations in the Middle East: The Case of Algeria,” Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, January 2017-present.

Peace and Security Issues, Governance, Regional Conflicts, Radical Islamist/Jihadist Movements, and Human Rights, in Africa, Sub-Sahara and Sahel in particular.

Worked for EU-GIZ-funded Assessment of the African Peace & Security Architecture of the African Union, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and the Regional Economic Communities and Regional Mechanisms (RECs/RMs) in Arusha (Tanzania), Nairobi (Kenya), Gaborone (Botswana), Abuja (Nigeria), Libreville (Gabon), 15 August 2014-15 March 2015.