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Peter Mandaville

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Professor of Government and Politics

Contact Information

pmandavi@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-1054
Mason Square, Van Metre Hall, Room 661
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
MSN: 3B1

Biography

Dr. Peter Mandaville is Professor of International Affairs in the Schar School of Policy and Government and Director of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies (ACGIS) in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) at AV. From 2024-25 he served as the Director of the Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and Senior Advisor for Faith Engagement at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). From 2022-24 he was Senior Advisor for Religion and Inclusive Societies at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). His prior government experience includes serving as a member of the U.S. State Department's Policy and Planning Staff (2010-12) and as a Senior Advisor in the Secretary of State's Office of Religion and Global Affairs (2015-16). He has also been a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Pew Research Center, and has held affiliations with the RAND Corporation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is the author or editor of the books The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power (2023), Wahhabism and the World (2022),Islam & Politics (Third Edition, 2020) and Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma (2001) as well as many journal articles, book chapters, and op-ed/commentary pieces in outlets such as the International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, The Atlantic and Foreign Policy. He has testified multiple times before the U.S. Congress on topics including political Islam and human rights in the Middle East. His research has been supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Curriculum Vitae

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EMPLOYMENT

2002– present
ProfessorofInternationalAffairs
(PreviouslyAssistant Professor,2002-2005; Associate Professor 2005-2014)
ScharSchoolofPolicy andGovernment AV

2015–2017
SeniorAdvisor,Office ofReligion andGlobalAffairs
U.S.DepartmentofState(onleave fromGeorgeMason University)

2012 – 2015
Director,AliVuralAkCenterforGlobalIslamic Studies AV

2010 – 2012
PolicyPlanningStaff,Office oftheSecretaryofState, U.S. Department of State (on leave from AV)

2003–2010
FoundingDirector(thenCo-Director)
Center for Global Studies GeorgeMason University

2000–2002
Directorof Research
OfficeofHenry A. Kissinger
CenterforStrategic&InternationalStudies

1998–2000
LecturerinInternationalRelations
DepartmentofPolitics&InternationalRelations
University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)

Otherprofessional affiliations

2018– present
SeniorResearch Fellow
BerkleyCenterforReligion, Peace&WorldAffairs
Georgetown University

2017 – present
NonresidentSenior Fellow,BrookingsInstitution,Washington DC (previously 2012-2015)

2017– present
Fellow,LokahiFoundation,London, UK.

2008–2009
VisitingSenior Fellow,PewResearch Center,Washington,DC

2003 (Jan-May)
VisitingFaculty Fellow,SchoolofInternationalService, American University, Washington DC

EDUCATION

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

1995
Master ofArtsinInternationalConflict Analysisw/Distinction
Department of Politics & International Relations
UniversityofKentatCanterbury (UK)

1994
MasterofArtsJointHonoursinInternationalRelations St. Andrews University, Scotland

1991 (Summer)
ArabicLanguageInstitute (ALI)
AmericanUniversityin Cairo,Egypt

PUBLICATIONS

Books

IslamandPolitics,2ndEdition,NewYork&London:Routledge,2014(Turkish edition, 2011). 3rd edition forthcoming 2020.

PoliticsfromAfar:DiasporasandTransnationalNetworks,NewYork:Columbia University Press, 2012 (co-edited with Terrence Lyons).

GlobalizingReligions,NewburyPark:Sage,2009 (co-editedwithPaulJames).

TransnationalMuslim Politics:ReimaginingtheUmma,London:Routledge,2001 (revised paperback edition, 2003; Arabic edition 2017).

MeaningandInternationalRelations,London:Routledge,2003(co-editedwithAndrew Williams).

TheZenofInternationalRelations:IRTheory FromEasttoWest,Basingstoke:Palgrave, 2001 (co-edited with Stephen Chan & Roland Bleiker).

Peer-reviewedjournal articles

‘IslamandExceptionalisminAmericanPoliticalDiscourse,’PSPoliticalScienceand Politics46:2, April 2013.

‘GDzپDzandTransnationalMuslimSolidarities,’Nations&Nationalism,Vol.17, No. 1, 2012.

‘ThinkLocally,ActGlobally:Diasporas&TransnationalPolitics,’InternationalPolitical 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,’JournalofEthnicandMigrationStudies,Vol.35,No. 3, 2009.

‘Rٳ󾱲԰쾱ԲDemocracy andDemocracyٲԳ,’Development,Vol.50,No.1,2007. (co-authored with Alicia Phillips Mandaville)

‘GDzپDzandthePoliticsofReligiousKnowledge:PluralizingAuthorityinthe

MuslimWorld, ’Theory,CultureandSociety,Vol.24,No.2,Spring 2007.

‘TǷɲaNewCosmopolitanism;or,the”پdzٱ,’ Global Society,Vol.17,No.2, April 2003.

'ReadingtheStatefrom Elsewhere:TowardsanAnthropologyofthePostnational', ReviewofInternationalStudies,Vol.28,No.1,2002.

‘ThePoliticsofMediatedCommunity:ReimaginingIslaminDiaspora,’Gazette: International Journal of Communication Studies, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2001.

'TerritoryandTranslocality:DiscrepantIdiomsofPoliticalIdentity,' Millennium:Journal of International Studies, Vol. 28. No. 3, 1999.

'Sayyid'sAFundamentalFear:adialogicalreview,' GlobalSociety,Vol.13,No.2,1999 (with Bobby Sayyid).

Peer-reviewedbookchapters

ҵandU.S.ForeignʴDZ’iShadiHamidandWilliam McCants (eds.),

RethinkingPoliticalIslam,NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2017.

‘PDz-asDZپDz’inFaisalDevjiandZaheer Kazmi(ed.), IslamAfter Liberalism, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

‘IslamandInternationalRelationsintheMiddle East:FromUmma toNation-State’in Louise Fawcett (ed.), International Relations of the Middle East, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 3rd Edition, 2013.

‘GDz Jihadism, Subalternity and Urban Islam in the West’ in Zaheer Kazmi and JeevanDeol(eds.),ContextualizingJihadiIdeologies,NewYork:ColumbiaUniversity Press, 2012.

‘The New Transnationalism: Globalizing Islamic Movements’ in Robert Hefner (ed.), TheNewCambridge HistoryofIslam,Volume6,Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress, 2010.

‘DoesReligionMatter?’ inJennyEdkinsandMajaZehfuss(eds.), GlobalPolitics:ANew Introduction, London: Routledge, 2008.

‘TheHeterarchicUmma:ReadingIslamic CivilizationfromWithin,’ inMartinHalland Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (eds.), Civilizational Identity: The Production and Reproduction of ‘Civlizations’ in International Relations, New York: Palgrave, 2007.

ҵEducationinBritain: ApproachestoReligiousKnowledgeina Pluralistic Society’ in Robert Hefner & Muhammad Qasim Zaman (eds.), Schooling Islam: The CultureandPoliticsofModernMuslimEducation,Princeton:Princeton UniversityPress, 2007.

‘GdzHero:HarryPotterDz’iIverNeumann&DanielNexon (eds.),Worlding Harry Potter, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. (with Patrick T. Jackson)

‘Sܴھ&Salafis:ThePoliticalDiscourse ofTransnationalIslam’ inRobertHefner(ed.), RemakingMuslimPolitics,Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,2005.

‘When Meaning Travels: The Changing Boundaries of Muslim Political Community’ in PeterMandaville&AndrewWilliams(eds.),MeaningandInternationalRelations,London: Routledge, 2003.

Bookchapters

‘LesdéfisdelareligionetdelapolitiqueétrangèreauxÉtats‐Unis’in DenisLacorne, Justin Vaïsse, Jean‐Paul Willaime (eds), La diplomatie au défi des religions. Tensions, guerres, médiations, Paris: Odile Jacob, 2014

‘AMuslims andGlobalIslam’ inYvonneHaddad andJaneSmith (eds.), OxfordHandbook ofIslaminAmerica.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2014.

‘FdzMedinahtotheUmmah:MuslimGlobalizationinHistoricaland ContemporaryPerspective’inEliezerBen-Rafael&YitzhakSternberg(eds.),World Religions and Multiculturalism: A Dialectic Relation, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010.

ҵ Popular Culture in the United Kingdom’ in Christiane Timmerman et al. (eds.),In-BetweenSpace: ChristianandMuslim MinoritiesinTransitioninEuropeandthe Middle East, Bern: Peter Lang, 2009.

'ReimaginingIslamin Diaspora:ThePoliticsofMediaandCommunity'inKarimKarim (ed.), Diasporic Media and Transnational Communities, London: Routledge, 2003.

‘TǷɲ a Critical Islam: European Muslim and the Changing Boundaries of Religious Discourse’inStefano AllieviandJorgen Nielsen(eds.),MuslimNetworks andTransnational Communities in and Across Europe, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003.

‘EܰDZ’sMuslimYouth:ThePoliticsofʱܰ’inShireenHunter(ed.),Islam, Europe’sSecondReligion,Westport,CT.:Praeger Press,2002.

‘ReimaginingtheUmmah?InformationTechnologyandtheChangingBoundariesof Political Islam’ in Ali Mohammadi (ed.), Islam Encountering Globalization, London: Routledge Curzon, 2002.

‘DinformatietechnologieendeverschuivendegrenzenvandeEuropese’iDick Douwes(ed.),NaarEen EuropeseIslam?,Amsterdam:Mets&Schilt, 2004.

'Information Technology and the Changing Boundaries of European Islam' in Felice Dassetto(ed.),Parolesd'Islam: Individus,SociétésetDiscoursdansl'IslamContemporain,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?TowardsDiversity inInternationalThought,Albany,NY:StateUniversityofNew York Press, 2000 (with A.J.R. Groom).

Otherarticles,reports&workingpapers

“PDZپPluralismintheMiddleEastandNorthAfrica,” Washington DC& Istanbul: HollingsCenterforInternationalDialogue,March2018.

“HǷAmericanChangedItsApproachtoPolitical,” TheAtlanticOnline,October 4, 2017 (co-authored will Shadi Hamid and Will McCants).

“EԲԲReligion andReligiousActors inCounteringViolent Extremism,” Special Report,United StatesInstitute ofPeace, August2017 (co-authoredwithMelissaNozell).

“DesignatingMuslims:IslamintheWesternPolicyImagination,”ReviewofFaithand InternationalAffairs,Vol.15,No.3,August 2017.

“TFuture ofReligionandForeignPolicyUnderTrump, ”ForeignPolicyStudies Report,Brookings Institution,March2017.

“,”BrookingsInstitutionOrderfrom Chaosblog, March 7, 2017,

“CDzԳٱٳܲԲIslaminEurope andNorthAmerica: ChallengesandǰٳܲԾپ,” US-Islamic World Forum Papers 2014, Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 2015 (co- authored with Dilwar Hussain).

“Integrating Religious Engagement into Diplomacy: Challenges and ǰٳܲԾپ,” IssuesinGovernanceStudies,No.67,WashingtonDC:TheBrookingsInstitution,2015(co- authored with Sara Silvestri).

thePost-IslamismThesis Stillղ?”RethinkingIslamist PoliticsBriefingPaper,Washington DC: Project on Middle East Political Science, George Washington University, January 30, 2014.

“T U.S. is Giving Up on Middle East Democracy—and That’s a Mistake,” The Atlantic.com, January 7, 2014.

“BԲԲtheUnitedStatesBackIntotheMiddle,”TheWashingtonQuarterly36:4, Fall 2013 (co-authored with Shadi Hamid).

NewApproachestoSecurityandJusticeSectorPartnerships:ImplicationsoftheArabUprisings. Washington DC: RAND Corporation, 2013 (co-authored with Mike McNerney and Jennifer Moroney).

“”ForeignPolicy.com,September30,2013.

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

“Lⲹ’sPost-QaddafiTransition:TheNation-Building󲹱Բ,”RANDCorporation, November2012 (co-authoredwithChrisChivvis, KeithCrane,andJeff Martini).

DzandPolitical Civility:TheLongDzԱپDz,”WashingtonD.C.:Brookings Institution, November 2012.

“TUnexceptionalٲ,”ForeignPolicy.com,July24,2012.

“A’sEgyptϳܲԻ岹,”ForeignPolicy.com,June26,2012.

MuslimMovements&NetworksinEurope:Social Integration&Radicalization,PewForumon Religion & Public Life, September 2010.

“,”YaleGlobalOnline,19August2010.

“TԲڴǰپPartnershipsinU.S.-MuslimRelations:EmpoweringNetworksfor Community Development and Social Change,” Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, July 2010.

“W󾱳ٳU.S.Engagementwithѳܲ?”ForeignPolicy.com,4June2010.

“,”TheGuardianOnline,4June2009.

TransnationalIslam inSouth&SoutheastAsia:Movements,Networks&ConflictDynamics, National Bureau of Asian Research Project Report, April 2009.

‘EԲԲIslamistsinthe±,’CTCSentinel,Vol.1,Issue7,June2008.

‘,’ International Herald Tribune, November 11, 2005, p. 4.

‘AdvicetothePresidentoftheWorld Bank,”TheInternationalEconomy,Summer 2005.

‘IsContinuedGlobalizationInevitable?–AReponse,’TheInternationalEconomy, Summer 2004.

‘W󲹳DoesProgressive IslamLook?’,InstitutefortheStudy ofIslamin the ModernWorld(ISIM)Newsletter12,June 2003.

‘PoliticalConditionalityasCounter-terrorism,’BelgradeJournal ofHumanRights,2002.

‘EܰDZ’sMuslim Youth:DynamicsofAlienationandIntegration’inShireenHunter with Huma Malik (ed.), Islam in Europe and the United States: A Comparative Perspective, Conference Proceedings, April 2001.

BeyondtheMetropole/BeyondMulticulturalism:TransnationalLabourMigrationandPolitical

IdentityintheArabGulf, WorkingPapersinEthics&TransnationalPolitics1,London: London Center of International Relations, 2000.

'Digital Islam: Changing the Boundaries of Religious Knowledge?', Cover Article, InstitutefortheStudyofIslamintheModernWorld(ISIM)Newsletter2,March1999.

'ReimaginingtheUmmah',DiscussionPaperNo.7,CentreforInternationalStudies, Aalborg University, January 1999.

'Digitizing Islam,' Middle East Affairs Journal, Vol. 5, Nos. 1-2, Winter/Spring 1999. 'HegemonyandAutonomyinStudiesofInternationalRelations,' MedunarodniProblemi (InternationalProblems), Vol.49,No.4, 1997.

'PoliticalViolenceaftertheOsloAccords,'PeriodicaIslamica,Vol.6,No.3,1997.

'CaughtintheNet:InformationTechnologyintheArabGulfStates,' GulfStates Newsletter, Vol. 22, No. 574, November 1997.

'IslamismintheHeartofIslam: ReligiousOppositioninSaudiArabia andBahrain,' King'sCollegeDept. ofWarStudiesWhitePaper,1997.

'The European Centre for International Conflict Resolution: a Proposal,' UK Defence ReviewWorkingPaper,submittedtotheUKGovernment'sDefenceReview,November 1997 (with N.J. Marsh).

'TheFuture ofConflict?InformationWarfareThreatAssessment,'UKDefenceForum Working Paper, January 1998.

'TheAftershocksofthe DhahranBomb,'UKDefenceReviewGreyPapers,July1996. Magazine and online interviews

“AinterviewwithProfessorPeterMandavilleonReligionandUSforeignpolicy,” Centre on Religion and Global Affairs, February 14, 2017.

‘“Ilsrejettentl’islamduvillage,”EntretienavecPeterMandaville,’Alternatives Internationales, Number 27, September 2005.

‘LeWebd’Islam,’Cités:Philosophie,Politique,Histoire,SpecialIssueonIslaminFrance, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Spring 2004.

OTHERPROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

CongressionalTestimony

HomelandSecurity&GovernmentalAffairsCommittee,UnitedStatesSenate, July 2008,“PDZپIslam”

HouseCaucus on HumanRights,U.S.House ofRepresentatives,May 2002. “HܳRights inSaudi Arabia”

Recentmediaappearances&quotations

NewYorkTimes,WashingtonPost,TheAtlantic,InternationalHeraldTribune,TheNew Republic, PBS, NPR, BBC, Al-Jazeera, USA Today, Voice of America

Consultancies&advising

U.S.DepartmentofState, UnitedStatesAgency forInternationalDevelopment, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. National Intelligence Council, Helsinki Commission of the United States, Foreign & Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom,MinistryofForeign AffairsofDenmark, MinistryofForeign Affairsofthe 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).

Expertadvisory council&boardmemberships

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

2017 – present
Advisory Council, Cambridge Institute on Religion and InternationalStudies, ClareCollege,CambridgeUniversity

2017– present
AcademicCommittee,Pangoalthinktank, Beijing,China

2009– present
Boardof Directors,CenterfortheStudyof Islam& Democracy

2014 – 2015
Editor-in-ChiefforCurrentEvents,OxfordIslamicStudies Online, Oxford University Press

2010 – 2012
AdvisoryBoard,PewResearchCenter,GlobalSurveyofIslam

2010 – 2011
SteeringCommittee, U.S.Global Citizen Diplomacy Initiative

2009 – 2010
NATOinAfghanistanExpert AdvisoryGroup,Center forthe Study of Congress and the Presidency, Washington DC

2008 – 2010
NationalBoardofAdvisors, CenterfortheStudyofthe Presidency and Congress, Washington DC

2005–2006
AdvisoryBoard, PewStudyofMuslim Americans

Recentfunded research

2018-present:PrimaryInvestigator,“TGeopoliticsofReligiousSoftPower:Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey,” Carnegie Corporation of New York.

2017-present:Co-Investigator,“CDzԳٱٳܲԲIslaminPluralisticSocieties,” EuropeanUnion.

2017-present:Primary Investigator,“TԲԲپDzԲReligiousInfluencefromthe Middle East Workshop,” Henry Luce Foundation.

2017-present:Primary Investigator,DzandInternationalAffairs inaNew Policy Environment,” Henry Luce Foundation.

2014-2015:Primary Investigator,“TԲٱԳپPolicyNetworkonReligion& Diplomacy,” Henry Luce Foundation.

2014-2015:Co-PrimaryInvestigator,“TFuture of,”Henry Luce Foundation.

2014-2015:Co-PrimaryInvestigator,“T𲹳󾱲ԲConnectedHistoriesof the ѱ徱ٱԱ𲹲,”National Endowmentforthe Humanities.

2014-2015:Co-PrimaryInvestigator,“EԲPowersinPost-Conflictand TransitionalٳپԲ,”UnitedStatesInstitute ofPeace.

2013-2015:Co-PrimaryInvestigator,“EԳ󲹲ԳԲPublicly EngagedScholarshipin theArab ´ǰ,”TheCarnegieCorporationofNewYork.

2013-2015:Co-PrimaryInvestigator,“TRoleofReligion inForeignPolicy& ProcessesofSocietalհԲڴǰپDz,”BritishCouncil&Henry LuceFoundation.

2012-2015:PrimaryInvestigator,“TIslamicMediterranean&ѴǻԾٲ,” Social SciencesResearchCounciland the British Council.

2012-2014:Primary Investigator,“B岵ԲCultures: Thelslamic´ǰ,” National Endowmentforthe Humanities.

2007-2011:Co-PrimaryInvestigator,‘GDzMigrationandTransnationalPolitics,’ JohnD. &CatherineT. MacArthurFoundation.

2008-2010:PrimaryInvestigator,‘TԲԲپDzԲIslaminܰDZ,’PewForum on ReligionandPublicLife.

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

2008:Primary Investigator,‘TԲԲپDzԲIslaminSouth&Southeast ,” NationalBureau ofAsian Research.

Professional&scholarly association memberships

AmericanPolitical ScienceAssociation(APSA)
International Studies Association (ISA)
MiddleEastStudiesAssociation(MESA)
The Muslim Institute (UK)
Fellowofthe Royal GeographicalSociety (UK)

Servicetothe profession

Member,APSAAreaStudiesLiaison Group(MiddleEast Rep)
Member,CommitteeonAcademic Freedom,MiddleEastStudiesAssociation (2009-10)

Article&manuscriptreviewsforPrincetonUniversityPress,CamrbidgeUniversity 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(MITPress),Cooperation&Conflict(Sage), Global Society(Taylor & Francis)

Researchlanguages

French (fluent)
Arabic(proficient)

Areas of Research

  • Islam and Politics
  • Religion and International Relations
  • Middle East
  • Information Technology and Social Change
  • Emerging Powers and World Order