Richard Hrair Dekmejian
Expert on politics in the Middle East, including Iran, Syria and Afghanistan
Professor of political science, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Contact at: (213) 740-3619 or dekmejia@usc.edu
Expertise:
- Middle East politics -- Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan (including Darfur), Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen
- the former Soviet republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
- international politics of the Islamic world
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Islamic civilization
- terrorism
- genocide
- U.S. foreign policy
- world political leaders
- leadership and the characteristics of leaders
- multinational business and politics
- Caspian regional politics
- oil politics
- central Asia
- international human rights
- politics and religion
- messianic cults
- religious terrorism
- international political risk analysis
- international relations
- Author, Troubled Waters: The Geopolitics of the Caspian Region (2001), Ethnic Lobbies in U.S. Foreign Policy (1997), Islam in Revolution, 1st and 2nd eds. (1985, 1995), Patterns of Political Leadership: Lebanon, Israel, Egypt (1975) and Egypt under Nasser: A Study in Political Dynamics (1972)
- Producer, Terrorism: A World in Shadows, a six-hour television documentary on the Discovery Channel (1990)
Foreign Languages:
Arabic, Turkish, French, Armenian
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http://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003204
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