Bassel F. Salloukh is Associate Professor of Political Science and Head of the Politics and International Relations Program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He obtained both his MA and PhD (Honour List) in Political Science from McGill University, Canada, and his Honours BA (Summa Cum Laude) in Political Science from McMaster University, Canada. His main fields of specialization include Comparative Politics (Global South and Middle East), Political Theory (Public Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Reconciliation and Interculturalism), and International Relations (Middle East IR). His current research focuses on a critique of power-sharing arrangements in post-colonial and postwar states, and the political economy of Lebanon’s postwar collapse.

Salloukh has co-authored and co-edited four books: The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon (2015), Beyond the Arab Spring: Authoritarianism and Democratization in the Arab World (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012), Mapping the Political Landscape: An Introduction to Political Science, 2nd edition (Nelson Publishers, 2007), and Persistent Permeability: Regionalism, Localism, and Globalization in the Middle East (Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004). His journal articles have appeared in a range of academic outlets including PS: Political Science and Politics, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES), International Studies Perspectives, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Middle East Critique, Middle East Policy, Middle East Report (MERIP), The International Spectator, and Middle East Law and Governance. Salloukh has also published numerous op-eds in policy journals, media outlets, and academic blogs targeting a broader audience, including in Foreign Affairs, Washington Post’s  Monkey Cage, POMEPS, The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS), Executive Magazine, The New Arab, openDemocracy, SEPAD, and Middle East Institute. He is featured in a number of podcasts and tweets at @bassel67.

Salloukh served as consultant to a number of international organizations and private entities, including Management Systems International, The Westminster Foundation, International Alert, and UN-ESCWA. He is a member of the Arab Political Science Network’s (APSN) Advisory Committee, a member of Middle East Law and Governance Advisory Board, a member of the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Steering Committee, and a member of the American Political Science Association (APSA) MENA Politics Section’s Workshops Planning Committee. Salloukh is also Senior Fellow at the Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies (LCPS), Fellow of the Sectarianism, Proxies & De-Sectarianisation Project at the Richardson Institute at Lancaster University, and Senior Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Interuniversity Consortium for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (ICAMES), McGill University.