Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East
Expertise:
Current Projects: Post regime change Iraq.
Background: Toby Dodge is author of Adelphi Paper 372 - Iraq’s future; the aftermath of regime change (2005) and the 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 Reader in International Politics, Department of Politics, Queen Mary, University of London. Previously he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick and an Associate Research Fellow at Royal Institute of International Affairs. His research has focused on the use of coercive diplomacy in the post-Cold War world and the transformation of Iraq under economic embargo, war and invasion. 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.
Joined IISS: October 2003
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