Toby Dodge

Centre Director

Professor Toby Dodge is Director of the LSE Middle East Centre, a Professor in the International Relations Department at LSE, and a Senior Consulting Fellow for the Middle East, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. 

Contact Details

Email: b.t.dodge@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)20 7955 6176

Research Interests

Professor Dodge's research concentrates on the evolution of the post colonial state in the international system. The main focus of this work on the developing world is the state in the Middle East, specifically Iraq:

• The shift from the colonial to the post colonial with the birth and evolution of the state in Iraq.
• The use of coercive diplomacy in the post cold war world.
• How the application of sanctions on Iraq transformed the state, society and the economy.
• The Bush doctrine, the reordering of international relations and intervention in 'rogue' states.
• The causes and consequences of regime change in Iraq.
• The descent of Iraq into civil war.
• The development of American Counter insurgency doctrine and its application to Iraq.

Publications

Books and research monographs

• Inventing Iraq: the failure of nation building and a history denied (paperback edition, New York: Columbia University Press, 2005)

• Iraq; from war to a new authoritarianism  (New York: Routledge and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2013)
  

• Iraq's Future: the aftermath of regime change (London: Routledge and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2005)

Edited volumes

• Afghanistan; to 2015 and beyond (edited with Nicolas Redman) (London and New York: IISS and Routledge, 2011), pp. 1-299

• Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change  (edited with Steven Simon) (London and Oxford: Oxford University Press and the IISS, 2003), pp. 1-178

• Globalisation and the Middle East, Islam, Economics, Culture and Politics(edited with Richard Higgott) (London and Washington: Royal Institute for International Affairs and the Brookings Institution, 2002), pp. 1-208

Refereed journal articles