Peter Mandaville is an American academic and former government official.

Biography

From 2015-16 he was senior advisor in the Secretary of State's Office of Religion & Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. His previous government work has included serving as a member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff (2011–12) under former Secretary of State

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, where he was part of the team that helped to shape the U.S. response to the

Arab Spring The Arab Spring () was a series of Nonviolent resistance, anti-government protests, Rebellion, uprisings, and Insurgency, armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began Tunisian revolution, in Tunisia ...

. Since 2000 his primary professional home has been

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where he is Professor of International Affairs in the

Schar School of Policy and Government The Schar School of Policy and Government (SSPG and formerly the George Mason University School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs or SPGIA) is the public policy school of George Mason University, a public research university in th ...

. At Mason he has also served as founding director of the Center for Global Studies and director of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies (now called the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies). Earlier in his academic career he was lecturer in international relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury (1998-2000). In 2022 he joined the United States Institute of Peace as a senior advisor for religion and inclusive societies. He has also been a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for Middle East Policy at the

Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global econo ...

(2012–15; 2017–2021) and currently a senior research fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Previously he was a visiting senior fellow at the

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(2009–10), and an Adjunct Scholar at the

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(2012–15; 2017-2018). He is widely regarded as a leading expert on

political Islam Political Islam is the interpretation of Islam as a source of political identity and action. It advocates the formation of state and society according to (the advocates understanding of) Islamic principles, where Islam serves as a source of poli ...

, Middle East affairs, and on Muslim communities in Europe and North America. He has authored numerous book chapters and journal articles, contributed to publications such as the ''

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,'' and has consulted extensively for media, government and non-profit agencies.Peter Mandaville
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Major publications

* ''Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma'' (London:

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, 2001) * ''The Zen of International Relations'' (London: Palgrave/

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2001, co-edited with Stephen Chan & Roland Bleiker) * ''Meaning and International Relations'' (London: Routledge, 2003, coedited with Andrew Williams) * ''Global Political Islam'' (London: Routledge, 2007), a broad overview of Islamist movements and global Muslim politics * ''Globalizing Religions'' (London:

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, 2010, co-edited with Paul James) * ''Politics from Afar'' (New York: Columbia University Press/Oxford University Press, 2011, co-edited with Terrence Lyons) * ''Islam and Politics'' (London: Routledge, 2014; 2020), updated and expanded second and third editions of ''Global Political Islam''. * ''Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022)

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Biography

Major publications

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