Peter Mandaville

800 South Adams Street, Arlington, VA 22204
Tel: (202) 390-0154 | E-mail: pmandaville@gmail.com

EMPLOYMENT

2002 – present
Professor of International Affairs
(Previously Assistant Professor, 2002-2005; Associate Professor 2005-2014)
Schar School of Policy and Government George Mason University

2015 – 2017
Senior Advisor, Office of Religion and Global Affairs
U.S. Department of State (on leave from George Mason University)

2012 – 2015
Director, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies George Mason University

2010 – 2012
Policy Planning Staff, Office of the Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State (on leave from George Mason University)

2003 – 2010
Founding Director (then Co-Director)
Center for Global Studies George Mason University

2000 – 2002
Director of Research
Office of Henry A. Kissinger
Center for Strategic& International Studies

1998 – 2000
Lecturer in International Relations
Department of Politics & International Relations
University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)

Other professional affiliations

2018 – present
Senior Research Fellow
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs
Georgetown University

2017 – present
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington DC (previously 2012-2015)

2017 – present
Fellow, Lokahi Foundation, London, UK.

2008 – 2009
Visiting Senior Fellow, Pew Research Center, Washington, DC

2003 (Jan-May)
Visiting Faculty Fellow, School of International Service, American University, Washington DC

EDUCATION

1998
Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations (PhD)
Department of Politics & International Relations
University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)

1995
Master of Arts in International Conflict Analysis w/Distinction
Department of Politics & International Relations
University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)

1994
Masterof Arts Joint Honours in International Relations St. Andrews University, Scotland

1991 (Summer)
Arabic Language Institute (ALI)
American University in Cairo, Egypt 

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Islam and Politics, 2^nd Edition, New York & London: Routledge, 2014 (Turkish edition, 2011). 3^rd edition forthcoming 2020.

Politics from Afar: Diasporas and Transnational Networks, New York: Columbia University Press, 2012 (co-edited with Terrence Lyons).

Globalizing Religions, Newbury Park: Sage,2009 (co-edited with Paul James).

Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma, London: Routledge, 2001 (revised paperback edition, 2003; Arabic edition 2017).

Meaning and International Relations, London: Routledge, 2003 (co-edited with Andrew Williams).

The Zen of International Relations: IR Theory From East to West, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001 (co-edited with Stephen Chan & Roland Bleiker).

Peer-reviewed journal articles

‘Islam and Exceptionalism in American Political Discourse,’ PS Political Scienceand Politics 46:2, April 2013.

‘Globalization and Transnational Muslim Solidarities,’ Nations & Nationalism, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2012.

‘Think Locally, Act Globally: Diasporas& Transnational Politics,’ International Political Sociology, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2010. (co-authored with Terrence Lyons)

‘Muslim Transnationalism and State Responses in the UK After 9/11: Political Community, Ideology &Authority,’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2009.

‘Rethinking Democracy and Democracy Assistance,’ Development, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2007. (co-authored with Alicia Phillips Mandaville)

‘Globalization and the Politics of Religious Knowledge: Pluralizing Authority in the

Muslim World, ’Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring 2007.

‘Towards a New Cosmopolitanism; or, the “I” Dislocated,’ Global Society, Vol. 17, No. 2, April 2003.

'Reading the State from Elsewhere: Towards an Anthropology of the Postnational', Review of International Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2002.

‘The Politics of Mediated Community: Reimagining Islam in Diaspora,’ Gazette: International Journal of Communication Studies, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2001.

'Territory and Translocality: Discrepant Idioms of Political Identity,' Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 28. No. 3, 1999.

'Sayyid's A Fundamental Fear: a dialogical review,' Global Society, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1999 (with Bobby Sayyid).

Peer-reviewed book chapters

‘Islamism and U.S. Foreign Policy’in Shadi Hamid and William McCants (eds.),

Rethinking Political Islam, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

‘Post-Islamism as Neoliberalisation’ in Faisal Devji and Zaheer Kazmi (ed.), Islam After Liberalism, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

‘Islam and International Relations in the Middle East: From Umma to Nation-State’ in Louise Fawcett (ed.), International Relations of the Middle East, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 3^rd Edition, 2013.

‘Global Jihadism, Subalternity and Urban Islam in the West’ in Zaheer Kazmi and Jeevan Deol (eds.), Contextualizing JihadiIdeologies, New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

‘The New Transnationalism: Globalizing Islamic Movements’ in Robert Hefner (ed.), The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 6, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

‘Does Religion Matter?’ in Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss (eds.), Global Politics: A New Introduction, London: Routledge, 2008.

‘The Heterarchic Umma: Reading Islamic Civilization from Within,’ in Martin Hall and Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (eds.), Civilizational Identity: The Production and Reproduction of ‘Civlizations’ in International Relations, New York: Palgrave, 2007.

‘Islamic Education in Britain: Approaches to Religious Knowledge in a Pluralistic Society’ in Robert Hefner & Muhammad Qasim Zaman (eds.), Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern MuslimEducation, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

‘Glocal Hero: Harry Potter Abroad’in Iver Neumann& Daniel Nexon (eds.), Worlding Harry Potter, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. (with Patrick T. Jackson)

‘Sufis & Salafis: The Political Discourse of Transnational Islam’ in Robert Hefner(ed.), Remaking Muslim Politics, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

‘When Meaning Travels: The Changing Boundaries of Muslim Political Community’ in Peter Mandaville & Andrew Williams(eds.), Meaning and International Relations, London: Routledge, 2003.

Book chapters

‘Les défis de la religionet de la politique étrangèreaux États‐Unis’ in Denis Lacorne, Justin Vaïsse, Jean‐Paul Willaime (eds), La diplomatie au défi des religions. Tensions, guerres, médiations, Paris: Odile Jacob, 2014

‘American Muslims and Global Islam’ in Yvonne Haddad and Jane Smith (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Islam in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

‘From Medinah to the Ummah: Muslim Globalization in Historical and Contemporary Perspective’ in Eliezer Ben-Rafael & Yitzhak Sternberg(eds.), World Religions and Multiculturalism: A Dialectic Relation, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010.

‘Islamic Popular Culture in the United Kingdom’ in Christiane Timmerman et al. (eds.), In-BetweenSpace: Christian and Muslim Minorities in Transition in Europe and the Middle East, Bern: Peter Lang, 2009.

'Reimagining Islam in Diaspora: The Politics of Media and Community' in Karim Karim (ed.), Diasporic Media and Transnational Communities, London: Routledge, 2003.

‘Towards a Critical Islam: European Muslim and the Changing Boundaries of Religious Discourse’ in Stefano Allievi and Jorgen Nielsen (eds.), Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and Across Europe, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003.

‘Europe’s Muslim Youth: The Politics of Pluralism’ in Shireen Hunter(ed.), Islam, Europe’s Second Religion, Westport, CT.: Praeger Press, 2002.

 ‘Reimagining the Ummah? Information Technology and the Changing Boundaries of Political Islam’ in Ali Mohammadi (ed.), Islam Encountering Globalization, London: Routledge Curzon, 2002.

‘De informatietechnologie en de verschuivende grenzen van de Europese islam’in Dick Douwes (ed.),Naar Een Europese Islam?, Amsterdam: Mets & Schilt, 2004.

'Information Technology and the Changing Boundaries of European Islam' in Felice Dassetto (ed.), Paroles d'Islam: Individus, Sociétés et Discours dans l'Islam Contemporain, Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 2000.

'Hegemony and Autonomy in International Relations: The Continental Experience' in Robert Crawford & Darryl Jarvis (eds.), International Relations: Still an American Social Science? Towards Diversity in International Thought, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000 (with A.J.R. Groom).

Other articles, reports& working papers

“Political Pluralism in the Middle East and North Africa,” Washington DC & Istanbul: Hollings Center for International Dialogue, March 2018.

“How American Changed Its Approach to Political Islam,” The Atlantic Online, October 4, 2017 (co-authored will Shadi Hamid and Will McCants).

“Engaging Religion and Religious Actors in Countering Violent Extremism,” Special Report, United States Institute of Peace, August 2017 (co-authored with Melissa Nozell).

“Designating Muslims: Islam in the Western Policy Imagination,” Review of Faith and International Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 3, August 2017.

“The Future of Religion and Foreign Policy Under Trump, ”Foreign Policy Studies Report, Brookings Institution, March 2017.

“The case for engaging religion in U.S. diplomacy,” Brookings Institution Order from Chaos blog, March 7, 2017, 

“Contextualizing Islam in Europe and North America: Challenges and Opportunities,” US-Islamic World Forum Papers 2014, Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 2015 (co- authored with Dilwar Hussain).

“Integrating Religious Engagement into Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities,” Issues in Governance Studies, No. 67, Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 2015 (co- authored with Sara Silvestri).

“Is the Post-Islamism Thesis Still Valid?” Rethinking Islamist Politics Briefing Paper, Washington DC: Project on Middle East Political Science, George Washington University, January 30, 2014.

“The U.S. is Giving Up on Middle East Democracy—and That’s a Mistake,” The Atlantic.com, January 7, 2014.

“Bringing the United StatesBack Into the Middle East,”The Washington Quarterly 36:4, Fall 2013 (co-authored with Shadi Hamid).

New Approaches to Security and Justice SectorPartnerships: Implications of the Arab Uprisings. Washington DC: RAND Corporation, 2013 (co-authored with Mike McNerney and Jennifer Moroney).

“Remember Cairo?” ForeignPolicy.com, September 30, 2013.

“A Coup Too Far: Reordering U.S. Priorities in Egypt” Brookings Doha Center Policy Paper, Doha, Qatar: Brookings Doha Center, 2013 (co-authored with Shadi Hamid).

“Libya’s Post-Qaddafi Transition: The Nation-Building Challenge,” RAND Corporation, November 2012 (co-authored with Chris Chivvis, Keith Crane, and Jeff Martini).

“Religion and Political Civility: The Long Conversation,” Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, November 2012.

“The Unexceptional Islamists,” Foreign Policy.com, July 24, 2012.

“American’s Egypt Quandary,” Foreign Policy.com, June 26, 2012.

Muslim Movements& Networks in Europe: Social Integration & Radicalization, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, September 2010.

“The Rise of Islamic Rap,” YaleGlobal Online, 19 August 2010.

“Transformative Partnerships in U.S.-Muslim Relations: Empowering Networks for Community Development and Social Change,” Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, July 2010.

“Whither U.S. Engagement with Muslims?” Foreign Policy.com, 4 June 2010.

“Obama in Cairo: the U.S. Woos the Umma,”The Guardian Online, 4 June 2009.

Transnational Islam in South & Southeast Asia: Movements, Networks& Conflict Dynamics, National Bureau of Asian Research Project Report, April 2009.

‘Engaging Islamists in the West,’ CTC Sentinel, Vol. 1, Issue 7, June 2008.

‘Towards a Virtual Caliphate,’ International Herald Tribune, November 11, 2005, p. 4.

‘Advice to the President of the World Bank,” The International Economy, Summer 2005.

‘Is Continued Globalization Inevitable? – A Reponse,’ The International Economy, Summer 2004.

‘What Does Progressive Islam Look Like?’, Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World(ISIM) Newsletter 12, June 2003.

‘Political Conditionality as Counter-terrorism,’ Belgrade Journal of Human Rights, 2002.

‘Europe’s Muslim Youth: Dynamics of Alienation and Integration’ in Shireen Hunter with Huma Malik (ed.), Islam in Europe and the United States: A Comparative Perspective, Conference Proceedings, April 2001.

Beyond the Metropole / Beyond Multiculturalism: Transnational Labour Migrationand Political

Identity in the Arab Gulf, Working Papers in Ethics &Transnational Politics 1, London: London Center of International Relations, 2000.

'Digital Islam: Changing the Boundaries of Religious Knowledge?', Cover Article, Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) Newsletter 2, March 1999.

'Reimagining the Ummah', Discussion Paper No. 7, Centre for International Studies, Aalborg University, January 1999.

'Digitizing Islam,' Middle East Affairs Journal, Vol. 5, Nos. 1-2, Winter/Spring 1999. 'Hegemony and Autonomy in Studies of International Relations,' Medunarodni Problemi (International Problems), Vol. 49, No. 4, 1997.

'Political Violence after the Oslo Accords,' Periodica Islamica, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1997.

'Caught in the Net: Information Technology in the Arab Gulf States,' Gulf States Newsletter, Vol. 22, No. 574, November 1997.

'Islamism in the Heart of Islam: Religious Opposition in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain,' King's College Dept. of War Studies White Paper, 1997.

'The European Centre for International Conflict Resolution: a Proposal,' UK Defence Review Working Paper, submitted to the UK Government's Defence Review, November 1997 (with N.J. Marsh).

'The Future of Conflict? Information Warfare Threat Assessment,' UK Defence Forum Working Paper, January 1998.

'The Aftershocks of the Dhahran Bomb,'UK Defence Review Grey Papers, July 1996. Magazine and online interviews

“An interview with Professor Peter Mandaville on Religion and US foreignpolicy,” Centre on Religion and Global Affairs, February 14, 2017.

‘“Ils rejettent l’islamdu village,” Entretien avec Peter Mandaville,’ Alternatives Internationales, Number 27, September 2005.

‘Le Web d’Islam,’Cités: Philosophie, Politique, Histoire, Special Issue on Islam in France, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Spring 2004.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Congressional Testimony

Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, United States Senate, July 2008, “Political Islam”

House Caucus on Human Rights, U.S. House of Representatives, May 2002. “Human Rights in Saudi Arabia” 

Recent media appearances & quotations

New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, International Herald Tribune, The New Republic, PBS, NPR, BBC, Al-Jazeera, USA Today, Voice of America

Consultancies & advising

U.S. Department of State, United States Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. National Intelligence Council, Helsinki Commission of the United States, Foreign & Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, European Union External Action Service, World Bank, Brookings Institution, RAND Corporation, Institute for Inclusive Security, Oxford Analytica, National Bureau of Asian Research, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Pew Survey of Muslim Americans, Global Business Network (GBN).

Expert advisory council & board memberships

2019 – present
Member, Advisory Council, Religion & Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

2017 – present
Advisory Council, Cambridge Institute on Religion and International Studies, Clare College, Cambridge University

2017 – present
Academic Committee, Pangoal think tank, Beijing, China

2009 – present
Board of Directors, Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy

2014 – 2015
Editor-in-Chief for Current Events,Oxford Islamic Studies Online, Oxford University Press

2010 – 2012
Advisory Board,Pew Research Center,Global Survey of Islam

2010 – 2011
Steering Committee, U.S. Global Citizen Diplomacy Initiative

2009 – 2010
NATO in Afghanistan Expert Advisory Group, Center for the Study of Congress and the Presidency, Washington DC

2008 – 2010
National Board of Advisors, Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, Washington DC

2005 – 2006
Advisory Board, Pew Study of Muslim Americans

Recent funded research

2018-present: Primary Investigator, “The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey,” Carnegie Corporation of New York.

2017-present: Co-Investigator, “Contextualizing Islam in Pluralistic Societies,” European Union.

2017-present: Primary Investigator, “Transnational Religious Influence from the Middle East Workshop,” Henry Luce Foundation.

2017-present: Primary Investigator, “Religion and International Affairs in a New Policy Environment,” Henry Luce Foundation.

2014-2015: Primary Investigator, “Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion & Diplomacy,” Henry Luce Foundation.

2014-2015: Co-Primary Investigator, “The Future of Islamism,” Henry Luce Foundation.

2014-2015: Co-Primary Investigator, “Teaching Connected Histories of the Mediterranean,” National Endowment for the Humanities.

2014-2015: Co-Primary Investigator, “Emerging Powers in Post-Conflict and Transitional Settings,” United States Institute of Peace.

2013-2015: Co-Primary Investigator, “Enhancing Publicly Engaged Scholarship in the Arab World,” The Carnegie Corporation of New York.

2013-2015: Co-Primary Investigator, “The Role of Religion in Foreign Policy & Processes of Societal Transformation,” British Council & Henry Luce Foundation.

2012-2015: Primary Investigator, “The Islamic Mediterranean & Modernity,” Social Sciences Research Council and the British Council.

2012-2014: Primary Investigator, “Bridging Cultures: The lslamic World,” National Endowment for the Humanities.

2007-2011: Co-Primary Investigator, ‘Global Migration and Transnational Politics,’ John D. &Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

2008-2010: Primary Investigator, ‘Transnational Islam in Europe,’ Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

2004-2010: Primary Investigator, ‘Globalization Dialogues Project,’ Vradenburg Foundation.

2008: Primary Investigator, ‘Transnational Islam in South & Southeast Asia,” National Bureau of Asian Research.

Professional & scholarly association memberships

American Political Science Association (APSA)
International Studies Association (ISA)
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
The Muslim Institute (UK)
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (UK)

 Service to the profession

Member, APSA Area Studies Liaison Group (Middle East Rep)
Member, Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association (2009-10)

Article & manuscript reviews for Princeton University Press, Camrbidge University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of North Carolina Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Studies.

Journal editorial boards: Foreign Policy Bulletin (Cambridge University Press), Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (MIT Press),Cooperation & Conflict (Sage), Global Society (Taylor & Francis)

Research languages

French (fluent)
Arabic (proficient)