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Reviews of
Organizations at War:
Review of Muslims in Western Politics:
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Welcome to my academic website.
I am
an Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies
at Indiana University,
Bloomington, and a 2009 Carnegie Scholar.
I received my PhD from UCLA in 2002 and was a CISAC Postdoctoral Fellow
at Stanford University.
I am a scholar of the politics of the Middle East, North Africa and
Afghanistan. My first book,
Organizations at War in Afghanistan & Beyond
(Cornell University Press, 2008; 2010 paperback edition) develops an
organizational theory to explain the evolution and outcomes of civil
wars, ethnic strife and other territorial conflicts. It applies
this theory to explain the outcome of every conflict in Afghanistan
since 1979 and intrastate strife more broadly in the Muslim World and
South America between 1945-2001.
My other major research interest is the politics of Muslim minorities in Western
Europe and North America.
I am the editor of an edited volume titled
Muslims in Western Politics
(Indiana University Press, 2009)
and I am preparing a new book manuscript on Muslim representation in the
parliaments of Western liberal democracies (funded by the Carnegie Award).
As a researcher, I use a wide mix of methods, including long stints of
field research, statistical methods, survey analysis, experiments,
content analysis, and organization theory.
Very best wishes,
Abdulkader.
Some recent research-related
publications and activities (selected, last 3 years):
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“Les difficultés de la
représentation politique des Musulmans Européens,” in
Minorités visibles en politique, edited by Esther Benbassa
and Katherine Fleming. Paris: Éditions du CNRS, 2011.
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“Toward Electability:
Public Office and the Arab Vote,” in Target of Opportunity:
Arab Detroit in the Terror Decade, edited by Nabeel Abraham,
Sally Howell, and Andrew Shryock. Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 2011. (with Eren Tatari)
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“Education, income and
support for suicide bombings: Evidence from six Muslim
countries” Journal of Conflict Resolution 54, No. 1, 146-178
(2010, with Najeeb Shafiq)
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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.
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“An experimental
investigation of causal attributions for the political
behavior of Muslim candidates: Can a Muslim represent you?”
Politics and Religion 2, 247–276 (2009, with Eileen Braman).
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I was selected as a
2009 Carnegie Scholar and awarded a $99,500 grant to
research Muslim representation in the West.
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Some of my published articles and chapters can be accessed
here
Recent and coming invited talks &
public lectures (selected, 2010-):
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“La dynamique des
transitions démocratiques avec les parties Islamiques au
pouvoir : observations de la Tunisie et de l’Égypte”,
invited lecture at Le Centre d’Etudes de l’Ethnicité et des
Migrations, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium, March 12,
2012.
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“Explaining the
endurance of resistance to NATO in Afghanistan—an
organizational analysis,”, invited talk at a conference
called COIN in Afghanistan: From Mughals to the Americans,
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway, February
12-13, 2012.
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“Islamist Moderation:
Explaining Changes in the Positions of the Tunisian al-Nahdha
Movement,” invited talk at the School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS), London, UK, February 8, 2012.
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A week-long invitation to give lectures based on my research
of Western Muslims, UC Berkeley, October 3-7, 2011.
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I organized a
conference at Indiana University titled “Researching Western
Muslims,” on September 23, 2011 to review the state of the
art in researching the issues affecting Western Muslims and
their interactions with their societies.
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“Organization theory
and the analysis of insurgencies,” Invited talk, RAND
Corporation, Washington DC, September 15, 2011.
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"The demographics of
bias against Muslim candidates in American elections,"
Invited talk at conference on Islamophobia at UC Berkeley,
April 21, 2011.
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“Public attitudes
towards Western Muslim minorities.” Invited lecture,
department of political science, Vanderbilt University,
March 3, 2011.
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I participated in the
workshop “Muslim Political Integration & Mobilization in
Comparative Perspective: Germany and the United States,”
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, May 3,
2010.
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I gave an invited
lecture titled "Prospects for the U.S. involvement in
Afghanistan,” at Illinois State University, April 14, 2010.
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I gave an
invited talk at the “Making sense in Afghanistan”
conference, Mershon Center, Ohio State University, April 10,
2010.
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I gave an invited public lecture at Grand Valley State
University titled “Muslim elected officials in Western
parliaments: risks and opportunities,” on February18, 2010.
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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.
Teaching
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