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Daniel Brumberg was a senior associate in the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy and Rule of Law Project and also an associate professor at Georgetown University. He previously was a Randolph Peace Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where he pursued a study of power sharing in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. In 1997 Brumberg was a Mellon Junior Fellow at Georgetown University and a visiting fellow at the International Forum on Democratic Studies. Earlier, he was a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University and a visiting fellow in the Middle East Program in the Jimmy Carter Center. He also has taught at the University of Chicago.
Brumberg is the author of many articles on political and social change in the Middle East and wider Islamic world. With a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, he is currently working on a comparative study of power sharing experiments in Algeria, Kuwait, and Indonesia.
A member of the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy and the advisory board of the International Forum on Democratic Studies, Brumberg is also chairman of the nonprofit Foundation on Democratization and Political Change in the Middle East. Brumberg has worked closely with a number of nongovernmental organizations in the Arab world, including the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA). He is also a member of the editorial board of the American Political Science Association's Political Science and Politics.
Selected Publications: Islam and Democracy in the Middle East (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003); “End of a Brief Affair? The United States and Iran,” Carnegie Policy Brief No. 14 (2002); Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
The United States faces mounting concerns about Iran’s quest for a nuclear fuel cycle and the escalating insurgency in Iraq. Listen to a discussion on the prospects for moving beyond the current – and quite possibly dangerous – stalemate in U.S-Iranian relations.
Democracy and Rule of Law Project discusses the implications of political turmoil in Iran. Audio from this event is available shortly.
Drawing on the insights of some twenty-five leading Western and Middle Eastern scholars, Islam and Democracy in the Middle East highlights the dualistic and often contradictory nature of political liberalization. Political liberalization—as managed by the state—not only opens new spaces for debate and criticism, but is also used as a deliberate tactic to avoid genuine democratization.
Listen to a panel discussion with Thomas L. Friedman, Adel Abdellatif, and Gilles Kepel.
Despite predictions that the American march into Baghdad would unleash either a wave of democratization or a plague of repression throughout the region, in reality most Middle Eastern states are too preoccupied with domestic problems to be moved profoundly by events in Iraq. Iraq will have a political impact on the region, but changes are likely to come in smaller steps than commonly predicted.
Before the United States can determine whether its gradualist approach to democratic reform in the Middle East is the best remedy, we must first understand how Arab autocracies actually work. In particular, we must understand how the "liberalized autocracies" of the region endure despite frequent prediction of their imminent death.
Discussants discuss the consequences of regime change in Iraq on countries in the Middle East and Central and South Eastern Asia.
A symposium on Iranian politics featured three noted experts on Iranian politics and a debate on the link between Iranian domestic politics and U.S.-Iranian relations.
