Dr Lars Berger

Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics

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• E: l.berger@salford.ac.uk
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Thursday, 3.00-5.00pm

Lars received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the Friedrich-Schiller University where he also taught before joining the University of Salford in September 2007. In 2006-07 he was a British Academy Fellow at the Department of Politics at Newcastle University. He has studied, travelled and researched widely in the Middle East, including a one-year study stay at the American University in Cairo, as well as further research trips to Egypt, the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern and African Studies in Tel Aviv/Israel, the King Faisal Centre for Islamic Research and Studies in Riyadh/Saudi Arabia, and the Council for British Research in the Levant in Amman/Jordan. In 2002-03, he was one of two Germans to join the American Political Science Association's Congressional Fellowship Program which provided him with unique insights into the foreign-policy making process in the United States. In 2007, the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) recognized Lars's research with an award for the best Ph.D. dissertation of the year. Lars' current research interest focuses on images of the West and Western policies in Muslim public opinion. He has been a frequent commentator on various BBC TV and Radio channels on the Arab Spring and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The Arab-Israeli Conflict (level 5)

The Politics of Islamism (level 6)

Terrorism: Threat and Response (level 7, attendance and distance-learning)

The Middle East and Terrorism (level 7, attendance and distance-learning)

US Middle East policies

US counterterrorism

Islamist terrorism

Public Opinion in the Muslim World

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

2012, 'Guns, Butter, and Human Rights: The Congressional Politics of U.S. Aid to Egypt', American Politics Research, 40(2), pp.603-635.

2012 'Conceptualizing al-Qaeda and US Grand Strategy', in: Hellmich, C & Behnke, A (eds.), Knowing al-Qaeda: The Epistemology of Terrorism, Ashgate, London, United Kingdom, pp.57-76.

2012 'Terrorismusbekämpfung', in: Koschut, S & Kutz, M (eds.), Die Außenpolitik der USA: Theorie - Prozess - Politikfelder - Regionen, UTB: Barbara Budrich, Leverkusen, Germany, pp.147-155.

2012, 'The Arab Spring - Its Impact on the Region and on the Middle East Conference', for: Academic Peace Orchestra, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, with Rózsa, E & Abu-Dalbouh, W & al-Wahishi, A & Bahgat, G & Berger, L & Baskin, G & Atesoglu, G N & Koch, C & Podeh, E & Lecha, E S Í.

2012, 'Yemen and the Middle East Conference - The Challenge of Failing States and Transnational Terrorism', for: Academic Peace Orchestra, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, with Döring, M & Fikenscher, S & Saif, A & al-Wahishi, A.

2011, 'The Missing Link? U.S. Policy and the International Dimensions of Authoritarian Resilience in the Arab World', Political Studies, 59(1), pp.38-55.

2011, 'Der 11. September 2011 aus Sicht der oeffentlichen und veroeffentlichten Meinung in der arabischen Welt', Zeitschrift fuer Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik, pp.153-172.

2011 'Breaking the Wave - The War in Iraq, US-Egyptians Relations and the Bush Administration's 'Democratic Tsunami'', in: Harrigan, J & Hamed, E (eds.), Globalisation, Democratisation and Radicalisation in the Arab World, Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp.163-182.

2009, 'The Challenge of Talking about Terrorism: The EU and the Arab Debate on the Causes of Islamist Terrorism', Terrorism and Political Violence, 21(4), p.539.

2009, 'Iran and the Arab World: A View from Riyadh', Middle East Review of International Affairs, 13(3).

2009, 'Between New Hopes and Old Realities - The Obama Administration and the Middle East', Orient, 50(2), pp.22-35.