'Dueling with Dictators and Warlords' by Professor Robert Springborg

This event will deal with US Middle East policy and the challenges of Washington maintaining its relations with authoritarian regimes in the Middle Eastern region. Hosting will be Professor Robert Springborg, who has decades of experience advising the US State Department and working in various academic and think tank organizations. 

Professor Robert Springborg

Robert Springborg is a Research Fellow of the Italian Institute of International Affairs and Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University. Formerly he was Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and Program Manager for the Middle East for the Center for Civil-Military Relations; the holder of the MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he also served as Director of the London Middle East Institute; the Director of the American Research Center in Egypt; University Professor of Middle East Politics at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia; and assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley; the College of Europe, Warsaw; the Paris School of International Affairs of Sciences Po; and the University of Sydney.

In 2016 Springborg was Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School, Harvard University. His most recent books are Egypt (2018) and Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa (2020), both published by Polity Press. He is the editor-in-chief of The Handbook of Contemporary Egypt, published by Routledge in 2021. He is the co-editor of The Political Economy of Arab Education (2021) and Security Assistance in the Middle East (2023), published by Lynne Rienner; and The Egyptian Revolution of 1919 (2023), published by I.B. Tauris.