Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East
Expertise:
Current Projects: Post regime change Iraq.
Background: Toby Dodge is a Political Scientist who has been researching the Politics of Iraq and the wider Middle East for the last fifteen years. In addition to his work at the IISS he is also a Reader in International Politics, Queen Mary, University of London and a Fellow of the Cold War Studies Centre, London School of Economics and Politics Science. He completed a PhD on Iraqi politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Dr Dodge has carried out extensive research in Iraq both before and after regime change in 2003. He was last in Iraq in March and April 2008.
Publications: Dr Dodge has recently published ‘Iraq and the next American President’, Survival, Vol. 50, No. 5, 2008 and ‘The causes of US failure in Iraq’, Survival, Vol. 49, No. 1, Spring 2007. He is also author of Adelphi Paper 372 - Iraq’s future; the aftermath of regime change (2005) and the co-editor of Adelphi Paper 354 - Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change (January 2003). His other published works include Inventing Iraq, the Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied (2003) and Globalisation and the Middle East, Islam, Economics, Culture and Politics (2002).
Joined IISS: October 2003
Contact: Click here to email Dr Toby Dodge
