Mako Presents at Workshop on Religion, Violence and State in Iraq
Shamiran Mako, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, participated at a recent workshop on Religion, Violence and the State in Iraq hosted at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and the Project on Middle East Political Science at Brandeis University.
Mako’s paper was entitled “Statebuilding Minus Peacebuilding: Evaluating De-Baathification And Its Outcomes.”
Shamiran Mako’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics with a focus on authoritarianism, civil wars, democratization, institutional capacity building, governing in divided societies, and American foreign policy with a regional interest on the Middle East and North Africa. Specifically, she explores the historical and contemporary drivers of inter and intra-state conflicts that produce weak and fragile states and examines ways in which successful conflict mitigating strategies relating to post-conflict state and peacebuilding can be applied to states in the MENA region.