Camille Pecastaing
Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies

Expertise by Geographic Area:
Iran; Iraq; Middle East; Persian Gulf

Expertise by Issue:
Conflict Resolution and Negotiation; Culture, Religion and Politics; Genocide; Globalization; Islamic Religion, Culture and Law; Terrorism

Background and Education:
Director of the Behavioral Sociology Project at SAIS; currently works on the cognitive and emotive foundations of xenophobic social attitudes and ethnoreligious violence, using the Muslim world and its European and Asian peripheries as a case study; areas of expertise include evolutionary and social psychology and the historical sociology of the southern flank of the Eurasian continent, with Islam as the origin of a coordinate system that ranges from the Mediterranean world to East Asia; Ph.D., international relations, SAIS

Publications:
Author of papers and articles on political Islam, Islamist terrorism, globalization and anti-Semitism