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Eberhard Kienle

Eberhard Kienle , DPhil, is a political scientist specializing in the international relations, political sociology and political economy of the contemporary Middle East. As chair of the Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies (of the School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS), he was instrumental in the creation of the London Middle East Institute (LMEI). In 2001 he was appointed research professor at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) where until 2007 he served as director of the Institut de recherches et d’études sur le monde arabe et musulman (IREMAM). After a three-year stint as program officer for Governance and Civil Society in the Cairo office of the Ford Foundation, he returned to the CNRS in 2010 to conduct research on the politics of the Middle East with special attention to inter-state conflicts, economic and political reforms and their limits, and the dynamics of political unrest and regime change. His publications include Democracy Building and Democracy Erosion: Political Change north and south of the Mediterranean (London, Saqi, 2009) and A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt (London, I.B. Tauris, 2001).

Research areas: Middle East and North Africa

Publications

Past errors, future options: new policies towards the Middle East: Eberhard Kienle 8 February 2011
Eberhard Kienle advocates for a new political agenda in the Middle East whereby western support for democracy, or power-sharing agreements, replaces support for authoritarianism, Palestinian wishes are reconciled with Israeli expectations, and economic cooperation moves away from recipes that have utterly failed. more