Event Date: January 19, 2010 - 12:00 pm
Location: Social Sciences Building, 120 Universi
A talk by Rex Brynen, McGill University.
Free. Registration is not required. This event will be in English.
Rex Brynen is Professor of Political Science at McGill University, and coordinator of the Montréal-based Interuniversity Consortium for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. He is author of A Very Political Economy: Peacebuilding and Foreign Aid in the West Bank and Gaza (2000) and Sanctuary and Survival: The PLO in Lebanon (1990), and editor or coeditor of Palestinian Refugees: Challenges of Repatriation and Development (2007), Persistent Permeabilities: Regionalism, Localism, and Globalization in the Middle East (2004), Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World (two volumes, 1995 and 1998), The Many Faces of National Security in the Arab World (1993), and Echoes of the Intifada: Regional Repercussions of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (1991). He is a past winner of McGill’s Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching. In addition to his academic work, Prof. Brynen has served as a member of the Political and Security Policy Staff of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; as an intelligence analyst for the International Assessment Secretariat of the Privy Council Office; and as a consultant to the Canadian International Development Agency, the International Development Research Centre, the World Bank, the United Nations, and others.
Text of Rex Brynen’s presentation