On Thursday 14 July 2005 Dr Toby Dodge, Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East, gave a talk on "Iraq – Short and Medium Term Prospects". This event took place between 10am-12 noon.
Toby Dodge is author of Adelphi Paper 372 – Iraq’s Future, the Aftermath of Regime Change (May 2005) and co-editor of Adelphi Paper 354 - Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change (January 2003). His other published works include Inventing Iraq, the Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied (2003) and Globalisation and the Middle East, Islam, Economics, Culture and Politics (2002). He is a lecturer in Politics at Queen Mary College, University of London.
Previously he worked with the Middle East Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. His research there focused on the use of coercive diplomacy in the post-Cold War world and the transformation of Iraq under economic embargo and war. Before working at RIIA 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.
Tea and coffee will be served from 10:00 with a Q & A session from 11:15. The meeting will conclude at 12:00 noon.
The event is exclusively for Corporate and Institutional Members of the IISS.
Please contact Lorna Williams as soon as possible if you will be able to attend Dr. Toby Dodge's meeting on email: williams@iiss.org or tel 44 (0)207 395 9120 
