P.O. Box 1862, Al Akhawayn University, Avenue Hassan II, Ifrane, Morocco 53 000

Telephone: +212 535862461                  Fax:+212-535862977

Email: j.kalpakian       aui.ma

Dr. Jack Vahram Kalpakian

Education

PhD.

Terrorism

Water Issues

Political Economy

North Africa and the Middle East

Research Interests

Representative publications

Books

 

Identity, Conflict and Cooperation in International River Basins, Ashgate Publishers, Hampshire, United Kingdom, 2004.

 

Articles and Book Chapters

 

“Africa,” Robert Pauly,  editor, Ashgate Research Companion to US Foreign Policy, Ashgate Publishers, Hampshire, United Kingdom, January 2010.

 

“Against both Bin Laden and Belliraj: Lessons from Moroccan Counterterrorism,” Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 29, Issue 3, December 2008.

 

“The narrow prospects of the SPLA/M’s transition into a political party in the short term,” South African Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 2, December 2008.

 

“Ibn Khaldun’s influence on current international relations theory,” The Journal of North African Studies, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2008.

“A Tug of War over Islam: Religious Faith, Politics and the Moroccan Response to Islamist Violence,” Journal of Church and State, Vol. 50, Winter 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Associate Professor

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

Membership

International Studies Association.

International Institute of Strategic Studies.

MESA

AIMS

“The United States and the Arab League,” Strategic Interests in the Middle East:
Opposition or Support for US Foreign Policy, Jack Covarrubias and Tom Lansford,editors, Ashgate Publishers, Hampshire, United Kingdom, November 2007.

 

“Implications of the 2007 Elections on Moroccan Political Development,” Institute for Security Studies (South Africa) Situation Report, 25 October 2007.

 

“Developing a Civil-Military Economic Relationship: International Case Studies and their Implications for Morocco,” Journal of Middle Eastern Geopolitics, Vol. I, No. 4, April-June 2006.

 

“Managing Morocco’s Image in United States Domestic Politics,” Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 11, No.1, March 2006.

 

“War over Identity: The Case of the Sudan,” C. Clapham, et al., editors, Africa’s Big States, Witswatersrand University Press, 2006.

 

“Morocco,” Small Arms Survey: Weapons at War, Oxford University Press, 2005.

 

“Placing Exile and Identity in International Relations,” Journal of Diplomatic Language, Vol. 2, No. 1, June 2005.

 

“Building the Human Bomb: The Case of 16 May,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, May 2005.

 

“Morocco and the United States: A Lobbying Opportunity,” South African Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 11, Issue 2, Winter/Spring 2004.

“Terrorism and Guerilla Warfare in Theory and Practice: Looking at Al Qaeda and Sudan’s SPLA,” South African Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 10, Issue 2, Winter/Spring    2003.

“The Machakos and Addis Ababa Agreements Compared: The Costs of Invalidating Compromises,” South African Yearbook of International Affairs 2002/03, SAIIA,    Johannesburg, 2003.

“America and Islam: The Blinding Effect of the Cold War,” International Journal of Politics and Ethics, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2002.

“The World Trade Organization,” Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: International Organizations and the 21st Century,” Thomas Lansford and Wayne Lesperance, editors, Pearson Custom Publishers, Needham Heights, MA, 1999.