Abdulkader H. Sinno's Academic Website

 

 

I am not teaching in AY 2009-2010 (I'm on research leave)

Reviews of Organizations at War:

Perspectives, Foreign Affairs,

Survival, Choice, Political Science Quarterly, Joint Forces Quarterly, Journal de l'Armée du Canada, India's Telegraph, International Studies Review, Asian Politics, African & Asian Politics
 

 

Welcome to my academic web page.  I research strategy and organization in politicized group conflicts, parliamentary settings, and transnational relations.  The geographic areas I study closely are North Africa, the Middle East, and Afghanistan.  My first book develops a new perspective and theory to understand the evolution & outcomes of ethnic conflict, occupation and civil war. It contains studies of Afghan conflicts and broad statistical research.  Organizations at War in Afghanistan & Beyond was published by Cornell University Press in 2008.

My other major research interest is the politics of Muslim minorities in Western Europe and North America.  I organized an international conference at IU on the topic. An edited volume titled Muslims in Western Politics was published by Indiana University Press in Fall 2008.  I am now working on a new book on Muslim representation.

I received my PhD in political science from UCLA in the summer of 2002, and spent a year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security & Cooperation (CISAC).  I am currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science & Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and a 2009 Carnegie Scholar.

Abdulkader.

 

Some recent research-related activities:

  • Organizations at War in Afghanistan & Beyond was republished as a paperback by Cornell UP (2010) and as a hardcover for the South Asian market by Cambridge UP.

  • I was selected as a 2009 Carnegie Scholar and awarded a $99,500 grant to research Muslim representation in the West.

  • Some of my published articles and chapters can be accessed here

Recent and coming invited talks & public lectures:

  • I am giving an invited lecture titled "Prospects for the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan,” at Illinois State University, April 14, 2010.

  • I am giving an invited talk at the “Making sense in Afghanistan” conference, Mershon Center, Ohio State University, April 10, 2010.

  • I am giving an invited public lecture at Grand Valley State University titled “Muslim elected officials in Western parliaments: risks and opportunities,” on February18, 2010.

  • I gave a talk on Muslims in elected office in the West at a conference at the American University of Beirut's (CASAR) in January 2010.

  • I gave an invited talk at a conference organized by the Remarque Institute and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), Paris, France, December 11-12, 2009.

  • I co-hosted a conference on the conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan at IU on November 13-14. State-Building in the Contemporary Islamic World: U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq

  • I presented a paper analyzing the new Obama Administration's strategy in Afghanistan at a conference at the Australian National University, October 2009.

  • I presented a paper to explain different rates of Muslim representation across Western liberal democracy at APSA in Toronto, September 3-6, 2009.

  • I gave a talk at the University of Venice, Italy, in May 2009.

  • I gave a talk about options for the Obama Administration in Afghanistan at Rutgers on April 13, 2009.

  • I gave a talk at the US Congress on policy option in Afghanistan on April 2nd, 2009. Organized by the Progressive Congressional Caucus. My notes.

  • I participated in a workshop on Muslims in the West at Princeton in March 2009.

  • I gave a talk on Afghanistan's current conflicts at Carnegie Mellon in February 2009

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