Eberhard Kienle is Directeur de recherche (Research Professor) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris and teaches politics at SciencesPo Paris. He previously served as director of the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo, French Near East Institute) in Beirut, member of the UN OHCHR fact finding mission to Syria, and programme officer at the Ford Foundation Cairo office. He has published extensively on the political sociology and economy of the Middle East and its international relations. Thematically his interests include economic and social policies and the transformation of political regimes, as well as the erosion and disintegration of contemporary states. Geographically he has focused on Egypt and the Fertile Crescent. His publications include Ba’th versus Ba’th: The conflict between Syria and Iraq, 1968-1989 (London, I.B. Tauris, 1990) and A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt (London, I.B. Tauris, 2001). With Nadine Sika he co-edited The Arab Uprisings: Transforming and Challenging State Power (London, I.B. Tauris, 2015).
