Biographical Note

 

Professor Peter Mandaville

Peter Mandaville is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, Virginia. He previously taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury in the UK. He hold degrees from the University of St. Andrews and the University of Kent. Visiting affiliations have included the National Islamic University in Indonesia and American University in Washington DC. He is most recently the author of Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma (London: Routledge, 2001), and has also co-edited The Zen of International Relations (London: Palgrave 2001) and Meaning and International Relations (London: Routledge, 2003). He has authored numerous book chapters, and contributed articles to journals such as Millennium and the Review of International Studies. In addition to various media appearances and consulting work, he has provided briefings to government agencies and testified before Congress on issues such as Saudi Arabia and al-Qaeda. Born and raised in the Middle East, much of his recent research has focused on transnational linkages between Islamist movements and intellectual developments within Muslim communities in the West. Current project include a teaching text, Global Political Islam, to be published by Routledge in 2004 and a study of the concept of cosmopolitanism in the Islamic tradition. In 2004, he will be a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia.

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