Islamists and Identity Politics in the Arab Spring
Guest Lecture by Dr. Daniel Brumberg
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Buchanan Hall, Conference Room D3AB
Join us for a guest lecture by Dr. Daniel Brumberg from the U.S. Institute of Peace. This talk will focus on the challenge of identity conflict and democratization in the context of the "Arab Spring." The key assumption animating this talk is that regime breakdown is unlikely to lead to democratic transitions absent a readiness of all key groups to forge a common democratic vision, one that does not privilege the cultural, religious or ideological agenda of any one identity group.
Daniel Brumberg is Senior Adviser to the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, where he focuses on issues of democratization and political reform in the Middle East and wider Islamic world. He is also an associate professor at Georgetown University and a former senior associate in the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy and Rule of Law Project (2003-04).
Previously, he was a Jennings Randolph senior fellow at USIP, where he pursued a study of power sharing in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brumberg was a Mellon junior fellow at Georgetown University and a visiting fellow at the International Forum on Democratic Studies. He was a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University and a visiting fellow in the Middle East Program in the Jimmy Carter Center, and has taught at the University of Chicago. Brumberg is the author of many articles on political and social change in the Middle East and wider Islamic world. With a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, he is currently working on a comparative study of power-sharing experiments in Algeria, Kuwait and Indonesia.
A member of the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy and the advisory board of the International Forum on Democratic Studies, Brumberg is also chairman of the nonprofit Foundation on Democratization and Political Change in the Middle East. He has worked closely with a number of nongovernmental organizations in the Arab world, including the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs. Brumberg is also a member of the editorial board of the American Political Science Association’s Political Science and Politics.
He received his B.A. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Sponsored by the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies.
