Speaker: Dr Philip Robins, St Antony's College
Tuesday 30 November 2010
18:00 – 19:30
Room LG.03, New Academic Building, LSE
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Dr Philip Robins is Reader in Middle East Politics and Faculty Fellow, St Antony's College, University of Oxford. His engagement with the Middle East dates from 1976, and he has worked for the BBC, The Guardian and the Economist Intelligence Unit. Dr Robins undertook his doctoral research in the Politics Department at the University of Exeter. He joined Chatham House in 1987, where he was later the founder of the Middle East Programme. He came to Oxford to take up his current post in 1995. Dr Robins has just completed a research project on drugs policy responses in the northern tier of the Middle East. Before that, he was the recipient of a Leverhulme grant to study the foreign policy of Turkey, a project which led to a major book publication in 2003.
This lecture is free and open to all and registration is not required.