Pete Moore

Pete Moore is Associate Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University and serves on the Board of Directors of the Middle East Report.  Prior to CWRU, he held positions at Concordia University in Montreal, Dartmouth College, and the University of Miami in Coral Gables.  His research focuses primarily on issues of political economy, state society relations, and sub-state conflict in the Gulf and the Levant.  In 2008-2009 he was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Zayed University in Dubai, UAE, and this year he directs the Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle East Studies (NOCMES), a new collaborative initiative of several local universities.

Moore’s current project is a comparative examination of political economies during civil war in Lebanon, Iraq, and Algeria.  As well, he is currently completing a co-authored book manuscript entitled, "Authoritarianism, Reform, and Democracy in the Arab World: New Horizons?”