APSA 2014 madness is descending on Washington. The POMEPS team is looking forward to the following panels focused on Middle East politics – many including POMEPS contributors and TRE grantees. Please confirm times and dates with the final meeting program.
11-18 The Syrian Uprising and its Historical Antecedents: Qualitative and Multi-Method Approaches
Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM, Hilton Embassy
Featuring: Mark Beissinger, Stathis N. Kalyvas, Kevin A. Mazur, Daniel Neep, Bassam Haddad, and Salma Al-Shami
18-4 Syria’s Civil War in Comparative Perspective
Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM, Marriott Wilson B
Featuring: Marc Lynch, James D. Fearon, Stathis N. Kalyvas, David E. Cunningham, Laia Balcells, and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Theme Plenary: The Arab Public Online
Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 4:15 PM-6:00 PM, Marriott Salon 1
Featuring: Ellen Lust, Henry Farrell, Marc Lynch, Deen G. Freelon, Sean Aday, Navid Hassanpour, Thomas Zeitzoff, Amaney Jamal, David Alexander Romney, Robert O. Keohane, and Dustin Halliday Tingley
12-23 International Politics, Authoritarian Resilience, and the Arab Spring
Friday, Aug 29, 2014, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM, Hilton Gunston West
Featuring: Amaney Jamal, Oisin Tansey, Kevin Koehler, Alexander Schmotz, Jason Brownlee, Rachel Vanderhill, and Daniel P. Ritter
12-11 States and Citizens in the Middle East
Friday, Aug 29, 2014, 10:15 AM-12:00 PM, Hilton Columbia 5
Featuring: David S. Patel, Daniel Corstange, Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Lisa A. Blaydes, Yael Zeira, and Adria Lawrence
11-55 Arab Politics in Comparative Perspective
Friday, Aug 29, 2014, 10:15 AM-12:00 PM, Hilton Du Pont
Featuring William Reno, Amel F. Ahmed, Mehran Kamrava, Zahra R. Babar, Nathan Toronto, Payam Mohseni, Leah E. Gilbert, and Gregory Hoadley
19-2 The Ouster of Autocrats in the Arab Spring (and Beyond): Explaining the Military’s Role
Friday, Aug 29, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM, Marriott Madison A
Featuring: Eva R. Bellin, David Pion-Berlin, Risa A. Brooks, Holger Albrecht, Hicham N Bou Nassif, Kevin Koehler, Erica Dreyfus Borghard, and Kate Cronin-Furman
Panel 2 Clawing Back Power: Arab Regimes at a Time of Mobilized Publics
Saturday, Aug 30, 2014, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Omni Diplomat Ballroom
Featuring: Augustus Richard Norton, Eric M. Davis, Denis J. Sullivan, Birol Baskan, Eric Bordenkircher, Landry Signè, and Morten Valbjorn
11-40 If You Build It, They Will Come: The Strategies and Challenges of State- and Nation-Building
Saturday, Aug 30, 2014, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Hilton Columbia 2
Featuring: Ahsan Ishaq Butt, Kara Downey, Calvert W. Jones, Melissa Lee, Sean L. Yom, David Laitin, and James D. Fearon
11-35 Protests in Authoritarian Governments
Electrifying the Masses: Emotional Appeals and Protest Mobilization during the ‘Arab Spring’
Saturday, Aug 30, 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Hilton Embassy
Featuring: Elizabeth J. Perry, Navid Hassanpour, Joan E. Cho, John D. Ciorciari, Jessica Chen Weiss, Silvana A. Toska, Margaret E. Roberts, and Marie-Eve Reny
Islam in a Changing Middle East – These panels are of special interest for the POMEPS Islam project:
33-2 The State as a Religious Actor: Contemporary Regulation of Islam in MENA and Central Asia
Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 10:15 AM-12:00 PM, Omni Embassy Room
Featuring: Karrie J. Koesel, Kenneth D. Wald, Pauline Jones Luong, Dustin Mitchell Gamza, Ann Marie Wainscott, H. Zeynep Bulutgil, and Robert Thuan Brathwaite
12-26 New Directions in the Study of Islam and Politics
Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM, Hilton Fairchild West
Featuring: David S. Patel, Quinn Mecham, Jeremy Menchik, Avital Livny, Iza Hussin, Richard Nielsen, and Niloufer Siddiqui
33-4 Politics of Islam in Europe and the US
Friday, Aug 29, 2014, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM, Marriott Jefferson
Featuring: Ramazan Kilinc, Arolda Elbassani, Aubrey Westfall, Bozena Chirstine Welborne, Ozge Celik, Sarah Tobin, Peter O’Brien, Bulat Akhmetkarimov, and Jane Menon
11-43 New Approaches to Islamist Movements and Transformations: Cross-Regional Perspectives
Saturday, Aug 30, 2014, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Hilton Morgan
Featuring: Bruce K. Rutherford, Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Kathleen A. Collins, Khalid Medani, Sultan Tepe, Tarek E. Masoud, Amaney Jamal, and Elizabeth R. Nugent
44-23 Patterns of Muslim Democratization: Post-Arab Spring Trends
Sunday, Aug 31, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM, Marriott Madison B
Featuring: Günes Murat Tezcür, Ahmet T. Kuru, Sebnem Gumuscu, Teije Hidde Donker, Matt J. Buehler, Sabri Ciftci, and Michael Driessen