Scientific Lead for the Arab Transitions consortium. The Arab Transitions project is an international research consortium composed of 12 partners funded through the European Commission’s FP7 framework. Focusing on North Africa, Jordan, and Iraq, the project combines a cross-national public opinion survey carried out in 2014-15 with microdata, indices, and other survey data to analyse trajectories of political, social, and economic transformations before and after the 2010-2011 Arab Uprisings. The survey dataset and the specially compiled longitudinal database gathering 2000-2015 data makes it possible to looks comparatively at trends in attitudes and behaviour in the context of the social, political, and economic transformations in the Middle East and North Africa since the 2010-2011 Uprisings.Project partners1. Dublin City University (DCU); Dublin, Ireland2. Análisis Sociológicos Económicos y Políticos (ASEP); Madrid, Spain3. Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI); Milan, Italy4. Universität Graz (UNI GRAZ); Graz, Austria5. Societatea Pentru Methodologia Sondajelor Concluzia-Prim (Concluzia); Chisinau, Moldova6. Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée pour le Développement (CREAD); Algiers, Algeria7. Egyptian Centre for Public Opinion Research (BASEERA); Cairo, Egypt8. Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS); Amman, Jordan9. University of Jordan (JU); Amman, Jordan10. MEDA Solutions (MEDAS); Casablanca, Morocco11. Association Forum Des Sciences Sociales Appliquées (ASSF); Tunis, Tunisia

The Centre's remit is to provide analytically innovative and policy-relevant thinking on key issues of contemporary global governance. Jointly with CGSG's founder Tom Weber, I am setting up the 2012-2013 research programme, including roundtables on the impact of the Arab Uprisings on regional and international governance, security governance, and the impact of the economic and labour crisis in Europe.

Visiting Professor at the GramsciLab

Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Social and Political Studies, Department of Conflict and Development, Middle East and North Africa Research Group (MENARG)

Lecturer in International Relations (especially IR theory, Middle East Politics) and director of the Masters in International Relations and Geography. Director of Postgraduate Studies for International Relations.