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Dr M. Rodwan Abouharb

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Associate Professor in International Relations
Room: 2.01, 29/30 Tavistock Square
Tel: 020 7679 4922 (ext. 24922)
Email: m.abouharb@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography

I’m an Associate Professor of Political Science at UCL. I previously worked in the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. My undergraduate degree is in Politics and Modern History from Brunel University, and I spent a couple of semesters at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport. As part of my undergraduate degree, I researched for an MP in the House of Commons, and a U.S. Senator in the United State Senate in Washington, D.C. I received my graduate degrees in Political Science from University at Buffalo (MA) and Binghamton University (PhD). In 2008 I was awarded the Rainmaker Award from Lousiana State University, and in 2004 I was awarded the Excellence in Graduate Research Award from Binghamton University. I am originally from Cardiff, South Wales, and I am of British and Syrian heritage.

My first book, co-authored with David Cingranelli, explores the human rights consequences of World Bank and IMF structural adjustment lending within the states. Currently, I’m working on my second book, co-authored with Bernhard Reinsberg, which examines the effects of international economic organisations at the individual level in the context of distributional politics. My research is published by Cambridge University Press, Journal of Politics, Review of International Organisations, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, and Journal of Human Rights, amongst others.

Research

My research places particular emphasis on understanding how both domestic and international socio-economic processes affect the human security of citizens around the world. My focus to date has been understanding the human rights and human security consequences of policies promoted by international organisations like the United Nations and other members of the UN family including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and World Trade Organisation (WTO).

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Podcast: UCL Uncovering Politics

Hear Dr Abouharb speak about his research on the following podcast episode:
S8 Ep1 | War and Infant Mortality

Publications

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Teaching

I teach modules on rebellion, and economic and social rights. I would be interested in supervising PhD students who are asking theoretically important and empirically substantive questions linking domestic and international processes to governments’ human rights practices.