On Monday 6 November 2006, Dr Toby Dodge (IISS Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East; Reader in International Politics, Queen Mary, University of London) addressed Members of the Institute on “The Causes and Consequences of American Failure in Iraq”. Organised by IISS-Asia, the event took place at Paperchase Room, 9 Raffles Place, Level 58 Republic Plaza.
Toby Dodge is the author of Inventing Iraq: the failure of nation building and a history denied (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003) and Adelphi Paper 372 - Iraq’s future; the aftermath of regime change (2005). He is also the co-editor of Adelphi Paper 354 - Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change (2003) and Globalisation and the Middle East, Islam, Economics, Culture and Politics (Royal Institute for International Affairs, 2002). He previously worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick and with the Middle East Programme at the Royal Institute for International Affairs. His research focuses on the shift from the colonial to the post colonial with the birth and evolution of the state in Iraq, the use of coercive diplomacy in the post cold war world and the Bush doctrine, the reordering of international relations and intervention in ‘rogue’ states. He completed a PhD on the transformation of international system in the aftermath of the First World War and the creation of the Iraqi state at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He also taught international relations and Middle Eastern politics in the Department of Political Studies at SOAS for four years.
