Camille Pecastaing, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Professor of Middle East Studies

Expertise

Geographic Areas
Middle East | Persian Gulf | Iran | Iraq

Issues
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
Jihad in the Arabian Sea (2011); author of papers and articles on political Islam, Islamist terrorism, globalization and anti-Semitism