Peter Mandaville

Associate Professor; Co-Director, Center for Global Studies

Dr. Peter Mandaville is and Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs and Co-Director of Mason’s Center for Global Studies. He previously taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury in the UK. Born and raised in the Middle East, he holds degrees from the University of St. Andrews and the University of Kent, and has also studied at the American University in Cairo. Visiting affiliations have included American University, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is most recently the author of Global Political Islam (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2007). 

His most recent book is Global Political Islam (London: Routledge, 2007), a broad overview of Islamist movements and global Muslim politics.Other books include Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma (London: Routledge, 2001; paperback 2003), and several co-edited volumes and anthologies such as Globalizing Religions (London: Sage, forthcoming 2007), The Zen of International Relations (London: Palgrave 2001) and Meaning and International Relations (London: Routledge, 2003). He has authored numerous book chapters and journal articles, contributed to publications such as the International Herald Tribune and The New Republic, and consulted extensively for media, government and non-profit agencies.

Much of his recent work has focused on the comparative study of religious authority and social movements in the Muslim world. His current research includes projects on Muslim leadership in the West and the relationship between globalization and development. In late 2007 he will begin work on a two year project (in collaboration with Prof. Terrence Lyons of Mason’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution) on ‘Global Migration and Transnational Politics’ funded by the MacArthur Foundation of Chicago.

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Center for Global Studies