| Islam and Democracy Speaker Series
Shireen Hunter
"Islam and Democracy: Are They Compatible?"
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201
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Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, Middle East Studies Center, and Honors and Scholars.
Shireen T. Hunter is a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. From September 2005 to August 2007 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and adjunct professor. She is also Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., with which she has been associated since 1983 (Director of the Islam Program, 1998-2005; Senior Associate, 1993-97; and Deputy Director of the Middle East Program, 1983-92). She is Consultant to the RAND Corporation; and she was Academic Fellow at Carnegie Corporation (2000-02).
Hunter's areas of expertise include the Middle East (especially the Persian Gulf region), the Mediterranean, Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus (North and South), and she has done extensive work on North-South relations, energy (Persian Gulf, Caucasus, Central Asia), developing-country issues (political, social, economic, security), and Islam (Russia, Europe, the United States).
Her books are Reformist Voices of Islam: Mediating Religion and Modernity (ed. and contributor, M.E.Sharpe, June 2008); Islam and Human Rights: Advancing a U.S.-Muslim Dialogue (ed., CSIS Press, 2005); Modernization, Democracy and Islam (co-ed. and contributor, Praeger, 2005); Islam in Russia: the Politics of Identity and Security (M. E. Sharpe, 2004); Strategic Development in Eurasia After September 11 (ed., Frank Cass, 2003); Islam: Europe's Second Religion (ed., Praeger, 2002): The Future of Islam-West Relations: Clash of Civilizations or Peaceful Coexistence? (CSIS/Praeger, 1998); Central Asia Since Independence (CSIS/Praeger, 1996); The Transcaucasus in Transition: Nation-Building and Conflict (CSIS/Westview Press, 1994); Iran After Khomeini (Praeger, 1992); Iran and the World: Continuity in a Revolutionary Decade (Indiana, 1990); The Politics of Islamic Revivalism (ed., Indiana, 1988); and OPEC and the Third World: Politics of Aid (Indiana, 1984). Her books have been used widely in courses in major U.S. and foreign universities. Her books Modernization, Democracy and Islam and The Future of Islam and the West have been translated into Persian and Arabic.
Hunter's major monographs include Iran between the Caspian Sea and the Gulf (Emirate Center for Strategic Studies, 2000); The Algerian Crisis: Origins, Evolution, and Implications for the Maghreb and Europe (CEPS Paper No. 66, 1996); Turkey at the Crossroads: Islamic Past or European Future? (CEPS Paper No. 63, 1995); Gulf Cooperation Council (ed., CSIS, 1984); Internal Developments in Iran (ed., CSIS, 1985); and The PLO After Tripoli (ed., CSIS, 1984).
Hunter is also author of more than 30 book chapters and 40 articles in many leading journals, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Middle East International, Washington Quarterly, Harvard International Review, The Brown Journal of International Affairs, Columbia Journal of International Affairs, The Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, SAIS Review, The Middle East Journal, Third World Quarterly, OPEC Review, World Today, Middle East Insight, Relazioni Internazionali, Current History, Security Dialogue, The International Spectator, Transitions, and Central Asia Monitor. She has written many op-ed articles for various newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor and the Los Angeles Times.
From 1993-97, Hunter was Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, and also directed CEPS' Mediterranean Program. While at CSIS in the 1980s, she also taught courses as Professorial Lecturer at Georgetown University, Adjunct Professor at George Mason University, and holder of the Louis L. Goldstein Chair at Washington College (1989).
Prior to joining CSIS, Hunter was Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution and Research Fellow at the Harvard University Center for International Affairs (CFIA). From 1966-78, she was a member of the Iranian Foreign Service, serving abroad in London and Geneva. She attained the rank of Counselor and served from time-to-time as Charge d'Affaires of the Iranian Mission to the United Nations in Geneva.
Hunter was educated at Teheran University (B.A. and all-but-thesis for a doctorate in international law), the London School of Economics (M.Sc. in international relations), and the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva (Ph.D. in international relations).
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Shireen Hunter
Visiting Professor
Georgetown University
Distinguished Scholar
Center for Strategic and International Studies
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