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• 1985

  Ph.D.

  Politics / Middle East

• Politics

  Africa

  Foreign Policy

  Research

  Qualitative Research

  Economics

  Stata

  International Development

  Policy Analysis

  Policy

  Program Evaluation

  International Relations

  Capacity Building

  Public Policy

  Political Science

  Denoeux

  Political analyst and commentator with extensive experience in the Arab world. Development practitioner with field experience as Team Leader for State Department- and USAID-commissioned assignments in the Middle East and North Africa

  Southeastern Europe

  the Caucasus

  the Balkans

  West Africa and East Africa. \n\nAdviser (since 1993) to the State Department and USAID. Regularly briefs senior staff of both organizations in Washington

  D.C. as well as abroad. Relevant overseas assignments have included Morocco

  Mauritania

  Egypt

  Jordan

  Lebanon

  Palestine

  Azerbaijan

  Senegal

  Montenegro

  Djibouti

  Bulgaria

  and Romania. \n\nWritings have appeared in Middle East Policy

  Comparative Politics

  Maghreb-Machrek

  Arabies

  Arabies Trends: The International Magazine on Arab Affairs

  The Journal of North African Studies

  The Middle East in London

  the Encyclopedia of the Middle East

  and the World Encyclopedia of Parliaments and Legislatures.\n\nSpecialties: Middle Eastern and North African politics; political violence

  terrorism

  and counter-terrorism; political and economic risk analysis; corruption and anti-corruption programming; and legislative development.\n\nCurrent research focuses on the drivers of violent extremism

  and on counter-extremism programming. Since 2007

  has conducted numerous briefings on those issues for decision-makers at the Department of State

  USAID

  as well as U.S. Embassies abroad.

  Guilain

  Denoeux

  Management Systems International

  Colby College

  Professor of Government/Middle East Studies

  Senior Associate

  Management Systems International