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

Reviews of Organizations at War:

Perspectives, Foreign Affairs,

Survival, Choice, PSQ, JFQ, Journal de l'Armée du Canada, India's Telegraph, 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:

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

• 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

• I gave a talk on Organizations at War at the University of Ottawa on November 25, 2008.

• I participated in LISD/Princeton University Afghanistan Review Conference, September 4th-7th, 2008, Bonn, Germany.

• I presented a paper on the underpinnings of bias against minority candidates at APSA in Boston, August 2008

• Reviews of Organizations at War: Perspectives on Politics Foreign Affairs, Survival, Choice, Political Science Quarterly, Joint Forces Quarterly

• On June 16, 2008, I gave a talk at the Center for Global Studies in Istanbul.

• I gave an invited talk titled “Of gains and options: Why do Islamist parties choose to compete electorally?”  at the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands on January 21, 2008.

The latest (teaching and other activities):

• Interview with WFHB's Interchange (58 minutes) on Jan 27, 2009

• Courses I'm teaching in Spring 2009

• July 2008 interview with Turkish policy journal Anlayis

• April 2 Interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (listen here to audio file, mine is the middle segment 20 minutes into the program)

• March 28 interview about Organizations at War with Steve Hinnefield

• Interview on al-Jazeera on March 10, 2008 on religion and politics in the United States

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