Marc Lynch is a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at

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, where he is also director of both the Institute for Middle East Studies and the Middle East Studies Program. Lynch is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and is on the editorial board of PS Political Science & Politics. Marc Lynch also writes a blog for ''

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''. Lynch received his B.A. degree from

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and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from

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. He is best known for coining the term ''

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'' in an article for the US political journal ''

.''

Publications

* 1999: ''State Interest and Public Spheres: the International Politics of Jordan's Identity,'' a study of Jordanian society and politics ( New York:

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). * September/October 2007: "Brothers in Arms: Memo to the

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on How to Talk to America". Foreign Policy. * 2007: ''Voices of the New Arab Public:

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, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today'' (Columbia Univ. Pr.). * July/August 2010: "Veiled Truths: The Rise of

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in the West",

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89, no.4, pp.138-147. * 2011: "After

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: The Limits and Promise of the Online Challenges to the Authoritarian Arab State".

Perspectives on Politics ''Perspectives on Politics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science. It was established in 2003 and is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association. The editors- ...

9, no.2, pp.301-310. * 2011: ''Revolution in the Arab World:

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, Egypt, And the Unmaking of an Era'' (Foreign Policy). eBook. * March 2012: ''The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East'', a book about the so-called

(

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). * 2014: ''The Tourniquet: A Strategy for Defeating the

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and Saving

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and Iraq'' (Center for a New American Security) * 2014: ''The Arab Uprisings Explained: New Contentious Politics in the Middle East'' (Columbia University Press) * April 2016: ''The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East'' (PublicAffairs, United States). * 2023: ''The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine''?'','' ed. with Michael Barnett, Nathan J. Brown and Shibley Telhami (Cornell University Press)

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