We are looking forward to seeing colleagues, POMEPS workshop participants, TMC authors, TRE grant recipients, and steering committee members as well as meeting new scholars at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting this year in Baltimore. Here’s a guide to what promising panels and roundtables related to Middle East political science. Be sure to RSVP for the POMEPS Reception on Thursday evening as well!
Please check the official ISA Program to confirm locations or any changes
Wednesday, February 22
8:15 AM- 10:00 AM
WA42: The Renewal of Authoritarian Politics in the post-2011 Arab World
Stadium 5, Marriott Inner Harbor
Marc Lynch (Chair), F. Gregory Gause (Discussant), Matteo Legrenzi (Discussant), Meir Raphael Walters, Dana M. Moss, Gerasimos Tsourapas, Sarah Weirich, Daniel Neep
10:30 AM -12:15 PM
WB62: Non-State Actors and in(security) in the Middle East: Ideologies, Challenges and Strategies
Harbor 2, Marriott Inner Harbor
Juliette Shedd (Chair), Kevin Edward Grisham (Discussant), Deina A. Abdelkader (Discussant), Amal I. Khoury, Shalini Venturelli, Mahmoud El Ashmawy, Adam Hoffman
WB12: Academic Freedom, Terrorism, and Counter-Terrorism
Holiday 3, Hilton Baltimore
Anthony F. Lang, Jr. (Chair), Swati Parashar, Alison Brysk, Marie Breen-Smyth
1:45 PM- 3:30 PM
WC28: Security in Egypt After June 30, 2013: A Range of Perspectives
326, Baltimore Convention Center
Nancy Okail (Chair), Allison Hodgkins (Discussant), Karim Ashour, Jacob Greene, Amira Mikhail, Allison McManus
WC20: After Syria: the changing IR of the Middle East
349, Baltimore Convention Center
Curtis Ryan (Discussant and chair), Jasmine Gani, Chris Phillips, Zeynep N. Kaya, Matthew Whiting, Filippo Dionigi, Yaniv Voller
Thursday, February 23
8:15 AM- 10:00 AM
TA17: The Arab Uprisings and the Politics of Change
319, Baltimore Convention Center
Jan Claudius Voelkel (Chair), Agnieszka Paczynska (Discussant), Deina A. Abdelkader, Maria Lotito, Konstantinos Travlos, Amir Bagherpour, Zining Yang, Erin Snider, Sidharth Raimedhi
10:30 AM- 12:15 PM
TB29: The Arab Spring and Change in Middle East Foreign Policy Making
Paca, Hilton Baltimore (Roundtable)
Imad Mansour (Chair), Meliha Altunisik, Bahgat Korany, Marc Lynch, Merouan Mekouar, Mohammed Nuruzzaman, Ewan Stein
4:00 PM- 5:45 PM
TD47: The Enduring Relevance Question in Contemporary International Relations (Roundtable)
Latrobe, Hilton Baltimore
Michael C. Desch (Chair), Daniel Byman, Deborah Avant, Michael Horowitz, Marc Lynch, Erik Gartzke
TD66: Ideology, Islam, and ISIS
Salon D, Marriott Inner Harbor
Ron Hassner (Chair and discussant), Ariel I. Ahram, Farah N. Jan, Hamoon Khelghat-Doost , Hassan Hassan
6:00 PM- 8:00 PM
Pratt Street Ale House
206 W Pratt St
Baltimore, MD 21201
Friday, February 24
8:15 AM- 10:00 AM
FA61: Social Change and Political Consolidation: Historical Perspectives on the Middle East
Harbor 1, Marriott Inner Harbor
Manus I. Midlarsky (Chair), Sandra S. Halperin (Discussant), Raslan Ibrahim, Lisa Blaydes, Abdy Javadzadeh, Catherine Wilson, Marc Sinan Winrow
FA83: Turkey’s Transnationalizing Statehood: Constraints and Opportunities for the Reproduction of State
Hospitality 1167, Hilton Baltimore
Meliha Altunisik (Discussant), Pinar Bedirhanoglu (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey), Özlem Kaygusuz, Zana Citak, Ahmet Erdi Ozturk
10:30 AM- 12:15 PM
FB22: The Arab Spring and Its Aftermath: Challenges and Prospects
318, Baltimore Convention Center
Agnieszka Paczynska (Chair and discussant), Dina Bishara, Egehan Hayrettin Altinbay, R. Shaffer, Avraham Sela, Uriel
FB56: Turkey’s Foreign Policy
Blake, Hilton Baltimore
Saturday, February 25
8:15 AM- 10:00 AM
SA14: Revolution and Counter-revolution in the Middle East: The Conceptualization of Change through Intermestics
342, Baltimore Convention Center
Robert Mason (Chair), Bahgat Korany (Discussant), Filippo Dionigi, May Darwich, Juliet Kaarbo, Mark N. Katz, Filiz Katman, Riham Bahi
4:00 PM- 5:45 PM
SD52: US Foreign Policy towards the Middle East
University 3, Marriott Inner Harbor
Gregorio Bettiza (Chair), Robert Stewart-Ingersoll (Discussant), Anna K. Viden, Wojtek M. Wolfe, May Darwich Isa Haskologlu
SD20: Contentious Borders: Changing patterns of Sovereignty and Statehood in the Middle East and North Africa post-2011 (Roundtable)
349, Baltimore Convention Center
Andrew Mark Dorman (Chair), Louise Fawcett, Raffaella A. Del Sarto, I. William Zartman, Asli Okyay, Simone Tholens, Leila Vignal