Speaker: Professor Yezid Sayigh, Carnegie Middle East Center
Chair: Dr Toby Dodge, LSE
Monday 23 January 2012, 18.30 - 20.00, CLM 4.02, Clement House
The construction of authoritarian power in Arab states over past decades has enmeshed national armies in political, economic, and social structures and dynamics. Democratic transition therefore implicates constitutional debates about the nature of the state with renegotiation of the role and status of the military.
This lecture is open to all and registration is not required.
Admission is on a first come first served basis.
Speaker
Yezid Sayigh| is a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where his work focuses on the future political role of Arab armies, the resistance and reinvention of authoritarian regimes, and the Israel-Palestine conflict and peace process.
Location
CLM 4.02, Clement House, LSE
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