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Marc Lynch

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Marc Lynch

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

Full-time Faculty

Department: Political Science

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Email: Marc Lynch
Curriculum vitae
1957 E St. NW, Office #512M Washington, D.C. 20052

Professor Lynch received his B.A. in Political Science from Duke University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. He teaches courses on Middle Eastern politics and international relations. He is the director of the Project on Middle East Political Science and co-director of the Program on African Social Research, and editor of the Columbia University Press series Columbia Studies on Middle East Politics. 

Middle East politics, Arab media and public opinion, Islamist movements, public diplomacy

Ph.D., Cornell University

  • IAFF 6361 Middle East Studies Cornerstone
  • IAFF 6378 Special Topics in Middle East Studies
         Media and Politics in the Islamic World
  • PSC 2440 Theories of International Politics
  • PSC 2478 International Relations of the Middle East
  • PSC 6478 International Relations of the Middle East
  • PSC 8441 Advanced Theories of International Relations

2026. Race-Making in Africa and the Middle East. Edited, with Hisham Aidi and Zachariah Mampilly. Cornell University Press (In press).

2026. “The Price of Order is Too High.” Middle East Law and Governance (January).

2025. America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region. Hurst Publishers/Oxford University Press.

2025. Order and Region Making in the Middle East. Edited, with Simon Mabon. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

2025. What is the Middle East?  The Theory and Practice of Regions (Cambridge Elements). Cambridge University Press.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009557870 

2024. Making Sense of the Arab State: Beyond Weakness and Strength. Edited, with Steven Heydemann. University of Michigan Press.

2024. “Changing Warscapes, Changing Islamists? Religion, Organization, Strategic Context and New Approaches to Armed Islamist Groups.” With Jeroen Gunning and Morten Valbørn. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Online First, September, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2024.2398668 

2024. “The Two State Delusion.” With Shibley Telhami. Foreign Affairs 103, no.2.

2023. “Israel’s One State Reality.” With Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown and Shibley Telhami. Foreign Affairs 102, no. 3. Symposium response, FA 102, no.4.

2023. The One State Reality: What is Israel/Palestine? Edited, with Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown and Shibley Telhami. Cornell University Press. 

2022. The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings. Edited, with Jillian Schwedler and Sean Yom. Oxford University Press.

2022. “The Future of Islamism Through the Lens of the Past.” Religions 13, no.2., 113. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13020113 

2022. “The End of the Middle East: How An Old Map Distorts Reality.” Foreign Affairs 101, no.2: 58-67.

2021. “Taking Stock of Middle East Political Science.” Mediterranean Politics 26, no.5: 682-95. DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2021.1889287 

2021. “The Arab Uprisings Never Ended.” Foreign Affairs 100, no.1: 111-22.

2020. “Islamist Movements After the Arab Uprisings.” With Jillian Schwedler. Middle East Law and Governance 12, no.3: 1-12.

2018. “The New Arab Order: Power and Violence in Today’s Middle East.” Foreign Affairs 97, no.5: 116-127. 

2017. “The political and institutional impact of Syria’s displacement crisis.” Middle East Law and Governance 9, no.3: 223-31.

2017. “Online clustering, fear and uncertainty in Egypt’s transition.” Democratization 24, no.6: 1156-77.

2017. “The Arab Uprisings and International Relations Theory.” Symposium editor and co-author of lead essay with Curtis Ryan. PS: Political Science and Politics 50, no.3: 643-646.

2016. “Failed states and ungoverned spaces.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Sciences 668 (November): 24-35.