ROBERT SPRINGBORG

CONTACT DETAILS

1490 Pennyfarthing DriveApartment 202Vancouver, BC V6J 4Z3CanadaTel: 1 604 783 5939Email: rdspring@nps.edu

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., political science, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1974

M.A., political science, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1967

Participant, Arab Studies Program, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 1967-68

B.A., political science (summa cum laude), Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1966

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1968-69

Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Professor, School of Politics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 1973-1999 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1975

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1979

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1980-82

Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution, Palo Alto, California, 1981 (summer)

Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 1987-88

Institutions Specialist and Technical Coordinator, Democratic Institutions Support Project, Center for Democracy, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., 1992-1996

Chief of Party of the Monitoring, Verification and Evaluation of the Participatory Rural Governance Program, United States Agency for International Development, Cairo, Egypt, January 1997--December 1998

Executive Associate, Director for Egypt and the Middle East, Development Associates of Arlington, Virginia, January 1999--August 2000

Director, The American Research Center in Egypt, August 2000—October 2002

MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies and Director, The London Middle East Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, October 2002—September 2008

Professor of National Security Affairs and Director for the Middle East of the Center for Civil-Military Relations, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2008-September 2013

Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London, April 2014—April 2016

Visiting Professor, Kuwait Program at Sciences Po, Paris, 2014-15

BOOKSFamily, Power, and Politics in Egypt: Sayed Bey Marei--His Clan, Clients, and Cohorts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Arabic edition translated by Muhammad Sami and published by Dar al Ta`wun, Cairo, 1993.

Mubarak's Egypt: Fragmentation of the Political Order. Boulder: Westview Press, 1989.

Politics in the Middle East, third edition. Glenview, Ill.: Scott Foresman/Little, Brown, 1990 (with James A. Bill).

Politics in the Middle East, fourth edition. New York: HarperCollins, 1994 (with James A. Bill).

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Politics in the Middle East, fifth edition. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999 (with James A. Bill).

Legislative Politics in the Arab World: The Resurgence of Democratic Institutions. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, Publishers, 1999 (with Abdo I. Baaklini and Guilain P. Denoeux).

Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East and North Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 (with Clement M. Henry).

Oil and Democracy in Iraq. London: Saqi Books, 2007 (lead author).

Popular Culture and Political Identity in the Arab Gulf States. London: Saqi Books, 2008 (co-editor with Alanoud Alsharekh).

Development Models in Muslim Contexts: Chinese, ‘Islamic' and Neo-liberal Alternatives, ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East and North Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, second edition (with Clement M. Henry).

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

"In Search of Egypt," Politics (May, 1976), 85-89.

"On the Rise and Fall of Arab Isms," Australian Outlook, 31, 1 (1977), 92-109.

"New Patterns of Agrarian Reform in the Middle East and North Africa," The Middle East Journal (Spring, 1977), 127-142.

"Professional Syndicates in Egyptian Politics, 1952-1970," International Journal of Middle East Studies (October, 1978), 275-295.

"Khedivalism along the Nile: The Strategy and Tactics of Egyptian Dependency," World Review (Summer, 1978).

"Patrimonialism and Policy Making in Egypt: Nasser and Sadat and the Tenure Policy for Reclaimed Lands," Middle Eastern Studies, 15, 1 (January, 1979), 49-69.

"Islamic Revivalism in the Middle East," Current Affairs Bulletin (June, 1979), 14-25.

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"Sayed Bey Marei and the Changing Nature of Political Clientelism in Egypt," Comparative Political Studies (October, 1979), 259-288.

"United States' Policy Toward Egypt: Problems and Prospects," Orbis, 24, 4 (1981), 805-818; reprinted in Journal of Palestine Studies (Summer, 1981), 161-170.

"Baathism in Practice: Agriculture, Politics, and Political Culture in Syria and Iraq," Middle Eastern Studies, 17, 2 (April, 1981), 191-209.

"Egypt's Future in the Arab World," Current Affairs Bulletin (August, 1982), 4-11.

"Food Production in the Arab States: Application of the Australian Dry Land Model," Journal of Arab Affairs, 3, 2 (Fall, 1984), 205-242.

"Insurgency in the Middle East," World Review 25, 2 (June, 1986).

"Iraqi Infitah: Agrarian Transformation and Elite Consolidation," The Middle East Journal, 40, 1 (Winter, 1986), 33-52. Published in abridged form in MERIP (March-April, 1987), 16-21.

"The Gulf War and Political Stability in Iraq," Peuples Mediterraneens, 40 (July-September, 1987), 17-42.

"Impediments to the Transfer of Australian Dry Land Agricultural Technology to the Middle East," Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 17 (1986), 229-251.

"The President and the Field Marshal: Civil-Military Relations in Egypt," Middle East Report, 147 (July, 1987).

"Egypt: Successes and Uncertainties," American-Arab Affairs, 33 (Summer, 1990), 78-98.

"Rolling Back Egypt's Agrarian Reform," Middle East Report, 166 (September-October, 1990), 28-30, 38.

"Iraq: Myths and Realities," Current Affairs Bulletin, 67, 3 (August, 1990), 26-27.

"Agrarian Bourgeoisie, Semiproletarians, and the Egyptian State: Lessons for Liberalization," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 22 (November, 1990), 447-472.

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"Origins of the Gulf Crisis," Australian Journal of International Affairs, 44 (December, 1990), 221-236.

"State-Society Relations in Egypt: The Debate Over Owner-Tenant Relations," The Middle East Journal, 45 (Spring, 1991), 232-249.

"The Arab Bourgeoisie: A Revisionist Interpretation," Arab Studies Quarterly, 15, 1 (Winter, 1993), 13-39.

"Pax americana: de la guerre froide a la guerre du golfe et au dela," Peuples Mediterraneens, 64-65 (1993), 119-130.

"Negotiated Transitions to Democracy," Critique: Journal of Critical Studies of Iran and the Middle East, (Fall, 1994), 1-7.

"Legislative Development as a Key Element of Strategies for Democratization in the Arab World," Arab Studies Journal, 3, 1 (Spring, 1995), 95-100.

“The Role of Legislatures in Arab Democratic Transitions,” (with Abdo Baaklini and Guilain Denoeux, Journal of Arabic, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies, vol 3, no. 1 (1996), pp. 1-21.

“Hariri’s Lebanon: Singapore of the Middle East or Sanaa of the Levant?” (with Guilain Denoeux) Middle East Policy, VI, 2 (October 1998), pp. 158-173.

“Egypt: Repression’s Toll,” Current History, (January 1998), pp. 32-37.

“Clash of Politics or Civilizations? Sectarianism among Youth in Lebanon,” (with Christine Asmar and Maroun Kisirwani) Arab Studies Quarterly, 21, 4 (Fall 1999), pp. 35-64.

“The Military’s Role in Presidential Succession,” (with John Sfakianakis) les notes de l’ifri, 31 (February 2001), pp. 57-72.

“Identity in Crisis: Egyptian Political Identity in the Face of Globalization,” Harvard International Review (Fall, 2003), pp. 18-23.

“Promoting Democracy and State Building in Palestine: Donor Assistance to the Palestinian Legislative Council,”

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(with Guilain P. Denoeux) Saffron LMEI Papers on the Contemporary Middle East, 1 (2005).

“The Middle East’s Democracy Gap: Causes and Consequences,” The Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol. 13, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2007), pp. 233-246.

“Protest Against a Hybrid State: Words without Meaning?” Cairo Papers in Social Science, v. 29, 2/3 (Special issue on Political and Social Protest in Egypt, edited by Nicholas S. Hopkins), (Summer/Fall 2006, published in 2009), pp. 6-18.

Robert Springborg, “Democratic Beacon in Iraq: A Dim Light Indeed” Orient 52, 2 (2011) pp. 6-11.

“Economic Involvements of Militaries,” The International Journal of Middle East Studies, 43, 3 (August 2011), pp. 397-399.

“Whither the Arab Spring? 1989 or 1848?” The International Spectator, 46, 3 (September 2011), pp. 5-12.

“The Political Economy of the Arab Spring,” Mediterranean Politics, 16, 3 (November 2011), pp. 427-433.

“The Precarious Economics of Arab Springs,” Survival, 53, 6 (December 2011-January 2012), pp. 85-104.

“GCC Countries as Rentier States Revisited,” The Middle East Journal, 67, 2 (Spring 2013), pp. 301-309.

“Egypt’s Future: Yet another Turkish Model?” International Spectator, 49, 1 (April 2014), pp. 1-6.

CHAPTERS IN COLLECTED VOLUMES

"Patterns of Association in the Egyptian Political Elite," in George Lenczowski, ed., Political Elites in the Middle East. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1975.

"The Superpowers and the Middle East Conflict," in Mohammed Ayoob, ed., Conflict and Intervention in the Third World. London: Croom, Helm, 1981.

"Egypt, Syria and Iraq," in Mohammed Ayoob, ed., The Politics of Islamic Reassertion. London: Croom, Helm, 1981.

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"Arab and Israeli Perspectives on International Security," in D. McMillen, Asian Perspectives on International Security. London: Macmillan, 1984.

"Civil-Military Relations in Egypt," in Ahmad Abdullah, ed. The Army and Democracy in Egypt. Cairo: Sina Publishing, 1990 (in Arabic).

"Approaches to the Understanding of Egypt," in Peter Chelkowsi and Robert Pranger, eds., Ideology and Power in the Middle East. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988.

"Human Constrains in Extending the Use of Forage Legumes in the Mediterranean Areas, in A.E. Osman, M.H. Ibrahim, and M.A. Jones, eds., The Role of Legumes in the Farming Systems of the Mediterranean Areas. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990.

"Selling War in the Gulf," in St. John Kettle and Stephanie Dowrick, After the Gulf War. Sydney: Pluto Press, 1991.

"Egypt," in Tim Niblock and Emma Murphy, Economic and Political Liberalization in the Middle East. London: British Academic Press, 1993.

"The United Nations in the Gulf War," in Jacqueline Ismael and Tareq Ismael, The Gulf War and the New World Order. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1994.

"Egypt," in W. Phillips Shively, ed., Comparative Governance. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

“Egypt,” (with Abdo Baaklini and Guilain Denoeux), World Encyclopaedia of Parliaments and Legislatures. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998, pp. 218-224.

“Jordan,” (with Abdo Baaklini and Guilain Denoeux), World Encyclopaedia of Parliaments and Legislatures. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998, pp. 383-387.

“Kuwait,” (with Abdo Baaklini and Guilain Denoeux), World Encyclopaedia of Parliaments and Legislatures. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998, pp. 401-405.

“Lebanon,” (with Abdo Baaklini and Guilain Denoeux), World Encyclopaedia of Parliaments and Legislatures. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998, pp. 412-417.

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“Palestine,” (with Abdo Baaklini and Guilain Denoeux), World Encyclopaedia of Parliaments and Legislatures. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998, pp. 522-525.

“Yemen,” (with Abdo Baaklini and Guilain Denoeux), World Encyclopaedia of Parliaments and Legislatures. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998, pp. 742-747.

"Egypt," (with Pam Pelletreau), in Marius Deeb and Bernard Reich, Handbook of Political Science Research on the Middle East. New York: Greenwood Press, 1998.

“An Evaluation of the Political System at the End of the Millenium,” in M. Riad El-Ghonemy, ed. Egypt in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for Development. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

“Foreword,” in Alanoud Alsharekh (ed), Challenging Limitations: The Redefinition of Roles for Women in the GCC. London: Saffron, 2005, pp. 9-11.

“Prasidentennachfolge in Agypten: Die Abwehr der Pratorianer?” in Hartmut Fahndrich, ed. Vererbte Macht: Monarchien und Dynastien in der Arabischen Welt. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2005.

“Political Islam and Europe: Views from the Arab Mediterranean States and Turkey,” in Michael Emerson and Richard Youngs, eds., Political Islam and European Foreign Policy: Perspectives from Muslim Democrats of the Mediterranean. Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, 2007, pp. 160-184.

“Comparative de-democratization: backsliding in the west, sinking in the south,” in Eberhard Kienle, Democracy Building and Democracy Erosion: Political Change North and South of the Mediterranean. London: Saqi Books, 2009, pp. 135-157.

“Is the EU Contributing to Reradicalisation?” in Michael Emerson, Kristina Kausch and Richard Youngs, Islamist Reradicalisation: The Challenge for Euro-Mediterranean Relations. Brussels: Center for European Policy Studies, 2009, pp. 1-25.

“Gas and Oil in Egypt’s Development,” in Robert Looney, ed., Handbook of Oil Politics, London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 295-311.

“The US Response to the Arab Spring: Leadership Missing,” in Riccardo Alcaro and Miguel Haubrich-Seco, eds., Re-thinking Western Policies in Light of the Arab Uprisings. Rome: Italian Institute of International

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Affairs, Research Paper 4 (February 2012) http://www.iai.it/content.asp?langid=2&contentid=+739&ritorno

“Learning from Failure: Egypt,” in Thomas C. Bruneau and Cristiana Matei, eds. Handbook of Civil-Military Relations. London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 93-109.

“Governance in Egypt,” in Abbas Khadim, Handbook of Governance in the Middle East and North Africa. London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 399-416.

“The Hound that Did not Bark: Solving the Mystery of Business without Voice in Egypt,” in Steffen Hertog, Giacomo Luciani and Marc Valeri, eds., Business Politics in the Middle East,” London, Hurst, 2013.

“Egypt: too big to Succeed?” in Robert E. Looney, Handbook of Emerging Economies. London: Routledge, 2014, pp. 397-414.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"A Perspective on Individual Regions: The Middle East," in G.H. Frank, Workshop Proceedings: World Oil and Natural Gas Supplies. Palo Alto: Electric Power Research Institute, 1981.

"The Transfer of Australian Dry Land Agricultural Technology to the Arab World, with Special Reference to Iraq," in Irwin Herrman, ed., Proceedings of the Second Annual AMESA Conference. Footscray, Victoria: Footscray Institute of Technology Library, 1984.

"The Importance of Farming Systems Research in the Transfer of Australian Dry Land framing Technology to the Middle East," in Farming Systems Research Workshop. Canberra: Australian Center for International Agricultural Research, 1985.

"A Critical Assessment of the Transfer of Australian Dry Land Agricultural Technology to the Middle East," Canberra: Development Studies Center, ANU, Working Paper No. 85/2, 1985.

"Ghazala Regains Ground," South, 17 (March, 1988).

"Which is the Real Saddam Hussein?" The Independent Monthly (December 1990-January 1991).

“Foreword,” in James B. Mayfield, Local Government in Egypt: Structure, Process, and the Challenges of Reform. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1996.

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“Arab Parliaments: Why and How to Support their Contribution to Democratization,” to be published as an occasional paper by the Center for Legislative Development, SUNY Albany (co-authored with Abdo I. Baaklini and Guilain Denoeux).

“Civilianization of Arab Militaries?” Occasional paper produced by Development Associates, Arlington, Virginia, 1998.

“Political Structural Adjustment in Egypt,” Occasional paper published by the European University, Florence, Italy, 1999.

“Forward,” in Noha El-Mikawy and Heba Handoussa, Institutional Reform and Economic Development in Egypt. Cairo: The Economic Research Forum, 2001.

“Helping to Preserve Middle Eastern Cultural Heritage,” Saudi Business Focus, 3 (June, 2003), pp. 66-71.

“Letter from the Director,” The Middle East in London, 1, 1 (April 2004), pp. 3-4.

“Against all Odds: Democracy and State-Building in Palestine,” (with Guilain Denoeux) The Middle East in London, 1, 2 (May 2004), pp. 4-5.

“Said El Naggar: A Beacon of Liberal Democratic Values in the Middle East,” The Middle East in London, 1, 3 (June 2004), pp. 4-5.

“The Middle East in the Wider World,” The Middle East in London, 1, 4 (July/August 2004), pp. 4-5.

“Helping to Preserve Middle Eastern Cultural Heritage,” The Middle East in London, 1, 5 (September 2004), pp. 4-5.

“Blueprints for Political Reform,” The Middle East in London, 1, 6 (October 2004), pp. 4-5.

“Polls Apart?” The Middle East in London, 1, 7 (November 2004), pp. 4-5.

“Second time Lucky?” The Middle East in London, 1, 8 (December 2004), pp. 4-5.

“Making the Most of Migration Trends,” The Middle East in London, 1, 9 (Februry 2005), pp. 3-4.

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“Freedom vs Funding: Studying the Middle East in the UK and US,” The Middle East in London, 1, 10 (March 2005), pp. 3-4.

“Multiple Candidate Elections in Egypt: Diverting Pressure for Democracy,” E-Newsletter of FRIDE (Fundacion Para Las Relaciones Internacionales y el Dialogo Exterior) no. 6 (11 March 2005).

The Democratization Industry and the Middle East. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2005.

“Making the Most of UK’s ‘soft cop’ Position,” The Middle East in London, 2, 1 (April, 2005), pp. 3-4.

“From Rentier States to a Global Power House,” The Middle East in London, 2, 2 (May 2005), pp. 3-4.

“The Middle East and North Africa: The EU’s Mexico,” The Middle East in London, 2, 3 (June 2005), pp. 3-5.

“Drawing the Wrong Lessons from Iraq,” The Middle East in London, 2, 4 (July 2005), pp. 3-4.

“From New York to London—9/11 and 7/7,” The Middle East in London, 2, 5 (September 2005), pp. 3-4.

“Clash of Civilizations—Or Tensions within and between Them?” The Middle East in London, 2, 6 (November 2005), pp. 3-4.

“Seeking to Amend the Iraqi Constitution in London,” The Middle East in London, 2, 6 (November 2005), pp. 10-11.

“Washington and the War on Terrorism,” The Middle East in London, 2, 7 (December 2005), pp. 3-4.

“The Presidential Elections: Rebranding the Status Quo,” al Dimuqratiyya, 20 (October, 2005), pp. 31-34 (in Arabic).

“The Islamist Genie Out of the Bottle?” The Middle East in London, 2, 8 (February 2006), pp. 3-4.

“Middle East Financial Markets: Greed Trumps Fear,” The Middle East in London, 2, 9 (March 2006), pp. 3-4.

“The Changing Face of Arab Culture,” Nature (23 February 2006), p. 913.

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“Too Little Fear, Not Enough Trust: Reactions to Uncle Sam’s and London’s Middle East Policies,” The Middle East in London, 2, 10 (April 2006), pp. 3-4.

“From Baghdad to Beirut: Averting the Lebanization of Iraq,” The Middle East in London, 2, 11 (May 2006), pp. 3-4.

“Muslim Public Opinion: Support for Islamic Democracy?” The Middle East in London, 3, 1 (June 2006), pp. 3-4.

“Dealing with Islamists: Engage or Confront?” The Middle East in London, 3, 2 (July/August 2006), pp. 3-4.

“The Middle East in 2025—Commentary,” Middle East Policy (Summer 2006), pp. 161-166.

“Written Evidence,” House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism, Fourth Report of Session 2005-06, (July 2006), pp;. 178-181.

“North Africa—Between the Levant and Europe,” The Middle East in London, 3, 3 (September 2006), pp. 3-4.

“Acting in Character: Leadership Failure in the Lebanese Crisis,” The Middle East in London, 3, 4 (October 2006), pp. 3-4.

“The Suez Crisis—A History Lesson Still to be Learned,” The Middle East in London, 3, 5 (November 2006), pp. 3-4.

“The Middle East’s Democracy Gap,” Militaert Tidsskrift (Journal of the Royal Danish Military), 135, 4 (December 2006), pp. 381-387.

“The Middle East’s Democracy Gap,” The Middle East in London, 3, 6 (December 2006-Jan uary 2007), pp. 3-4.

“Europe Struggles to Come to Terms with its New Neighbours,” The Middle East in London, 3, 7 (February 2007), pp. 3-4.

“The Political Costs of Bush’s Middle East Policy,” The Middle East in London, 3, 8 (March 2007), pp. 3-4.

“Democracy’s Opportunity Lost,” The Middle East in London, 3, 9 (April 2007), pp. 3-4.

“Teaching Religion in the Middle East,” The Middle East in London, 3, 10 (May 2007), pp. 3-4.

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“Empowerment through Expression,” The Middle East in London, 4, 1 (June 2007), pp. 3-4.

“Practice what you Preach,” The Middle East in London, 4, 2 (July-August 2007), pp. 3-4.

“The Arc of Crisis and the End of the Empire,” The Middle East in London, 4, 3 (September 2007), pp. 3-4.

“Revisiting Globalization: Still a Force for Change in the Middle East?” The Middle East in London, 4, 4 (October 2007), pp. 3-4.

“De-democratisation and the Apotheosis of Arab Shadow States,” The Middle East in London, 4, 5 (November 2007), pp. 3-4.

“From Washington to Beijing: In Search of a Development Model,” The Middle East in London, 4, 6 (December, 2007), pp. 3-4.

“The EU and the Middle East: Megaphone or Muffle?” The Middle East in London, 4, 7 (February, 2008), pp. 3-4.

“Arab Gulf States in the Arab World: Providing New Leadership or Decoupling?” The Middle East in London, 4, 8 (March, 2008), pp. 3-4.

“Uncle Sam in Iraq: the war of narratives,” Open Democracy (19 March 2008), http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/conflicts/uncle_sam_in_iraq_the_war_of_narratives

“Too Modern Middle East Studies,” The Middle East in London, 4, 9 (April, 2008), pp. 3-4.

“Uncle Sam in Iraq: Bumbling Fool or Conniving Neo-Colonial?” The Middle East in London, 4, 10 (May, 2008), pp. 3-4.

“Hidden Hands behind Middle East Politics,” The Middle East in London, 5, 1 (June, 2008), pp. 3-4.

“GCC and the Arab World: Of Economic Power and Political Leadership,” Gulf News Financial Review (May 2008), pp. 42-43.

“Farewell to London, SOAS and the LMEI,” The Middle East in London, 5, 2 (July-August, 2008), pp. 3-4.

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“Agypten: Armes reiches Land,” Internationale Politik, 66, 3 (Mai/Juni 2011), pp. 96-104 (in German).

“Democratic Beacon in Iraq: A Dim Light Indeed,” Orient, 11 (2011), pp. 6-11.

“El poder militar en Egipto,” Vanguardia, 39 (Abril/Junio 2011), pp. 22-26 (in Spanish)

“Army Guys,” (with Clement M. Henry) The American Interest, 6, 5 (May/June 2011), pp. 14-21.

“Why Egypt’s Military will not be able to Govern,” Independent Australia (February 24, 2011) (with Clement M. Henry) http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/democracy/why-egypts-military-will-not-be-able-to-govern/

“A Tunisian Solution for Egypt’s Military,” Foreign Affairs (February 1, 2011), http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67475/clement-m-henry-and-robert-springborg/a-tunisian-solution-for-egypts-military

“Game Over: The Chance for Democracy in Egypt is Over,” Foreign Policy (February 2, 2011) http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/02/02/game_over_the_chance_for_democracy_in_egypt_is_lost

“The Vast and Complex Military Machine will Decide Its Future,” The Independent (February 12, 2011) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/the-vast-and-complex-military-machine-will-decide-its-nationrsquos-future-2212491.html

“Egypt Without Mubaraks: Sampson Option or New Political Order?” Huffington Post (January 31, 2011), with Clement M. Henry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clement-m-henry/egypt-without-mubaraks-sa_b_816206.html Reprinted in Middle East Insight, 4 (February 7, 2011)

“The Arab Spring: Protest, Power, Prospect,” Open Democracy (April 4, 2011), http://www.opendemocracy.net/david-hayes/arab-spring-protest-power-prospect

“US Expert: Leadership of ‘Military Inc.’ is Running Egypt,” al Masry al Youm (October 26, 2011), http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/508736

“Egypt’s Cobra and Mongoose,” Foreign Policy.com (February 27, 2012) http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/02/27/egypt_s_cobra_and_mongoose Also

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published in al Masry al Youm (February 27, 2012), http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/683311

“States with Mid-Level Production Are Vulnerable, Zocalo (March 13, 2012), http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2012/03/12/will-there-be-blood/read/up-for-discussion/

“Egypt’s Cobra and Mongoose Become Lion and Lamb,” Foreign Policy, August 14, 2012, http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/14/egypts_cobra_and_mongoose_become_lion_and_lamb , reprinted in Marc Lynch, Mursi’s Egypt, POMEPS Briefings 13, Foreign Policy, The Middle Channel, (August 20, 2012)

Review of Roger Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab President’s for Life. Middle East Policy, 19, 4 (Winter 2012), pp. 165-168.

“June to June: The More Things Change, the More then Remain the Same,” Jadaliyya (July 2, 2013)

“The Man on Horseback,” Foreign Policy (July 2, 2013) http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/07/02/the_man_on_horseback_egypt_military

“General al Sisi’s Islamist Agenda for Egypt,” Foreign Affairs, (July 28, 2013) http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139605/robert-springborg/sisis-islamist-agenda-for-egypt

“US Should Retool, Not End Military Aid to Egypt,” al Monitor (September 22, 2013)

“The Nasser Playbook: The Future of the U.S.—Egyptian Relationship is in the Past,” Foreign Affairs (November 5, 2013) http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140242/robert-springborg/the-nasser-playbook

Review of Jason Brownlee, Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance, Political Science Quarterly, 128, 4 (Winter 2013), pp. 760-761.

“Abd al Fattah al Sisi: New Face of Egypt’s Old Guard,” BBC News on line (March 26, 2014) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26188023

“Sisi’s Secret Islamism: The Rhetoric and the Reality of Egypt’s New President,” Foreign Affairs (May 26, 2014) http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141458/robert-springborg/sisis-secret-islamism

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Op-ed and other articles published in various newspapers, magazines, and on-line sites, 1975-present.

BOOK REVIEWS

Published in The Middle East Journal, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Policy, Middle East Report, Journal of Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Politics, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Australian Journal of Politics and History, The Muslim World, Asian Studies Review, The Annals, The MESA Bulletin, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, etc.

HONORS, GRANTS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1966-67

Stanford University-American University of Beirut Exchange Fellow, 1967-68.

National Institute of Mental Health Traineeship, Stanford University, 1969-70.

Stanford University Center for International Studies Fellowships, 1971-73.

Honorary Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt, 1971-2.

Visiting Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, 1972-73.

Consultant for Syria and Iraq, South Australia Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1978-80

Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt, 1986.

Grants from Macquarie University, University of Pennsylvania, Australian Research Grants Scheme, and the Australian Department of Education.

President, Australasian Middle East Studies Association, 1987.

Member of the National Advisory Committee of the Middle East Policy Council, Washington, D.C.

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Committee for British Research in the Levant, 2005-

Member of the Board of the British Society for Middle East Studies, 2004-

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Member of the Editorial Board of Foreign Policy Bulletin, 2005-

Member of the Board of Trustees, Arab-British Chamber of Commerce Foundation, 2007-

Member of the Steering Committee of Il Vicino Oriente, September 2007-

Member of the Editorial Board of the Routledge Series on the Political Economy of the Middle East, 2008-

Member of Phi Beta Kappa Epsilon of Minnesota, 2008-

Member of the Advisory Board, The International Spectator, Istituto Affari Internazionale, Rome, Italy

Rear Admiral John Jay Schieffelin award for teaching excellence for the 2011 academic year, top 5% of balloting, NPS, May, 2012

Non-Resident Scholar, Istituto Affari Internazionale, Rome, Italy, 2013-

ILLUSTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Presentation on Egyptian Political Elite to Workshop on Middle East Politics, Defense Intelligence Agency and Joint Military Intelligence College, Newport, Rhode Island, 21-22 September, 1993.

Respondent to presentation by Amb. Tahseen Basheer, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, December 6, 1993.

Lecture on Arab Transitions to Democracy at the Center for Middle East Studies, Columbia University, New York, March 7, 1994.

Participant in workshop on Democratization in Eastern Arab States, School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C., March 18, 1994.

Lecture on Egyptian Politics, Foreign Service Institute, Department of State, Washington, D.C., April 5, 1994.

Paper delivered on Transitions to Democracy in the Middle East at the annual conference of the Center for Critical Studies of Iran and the Middle East, Hamline College, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 22, 1994.

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Discussant at workshop on U.S.--Egyptian Relations after the Cold War, organized by the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University, Washington, D.C., April 28-29, 1994.

Discussant at conference on American-Arab Relations: A New Beginning?, sponsored by the Foundation on Democratization and Political Change in the Middle East, Washington, D.C., May 26-28, 1994.

Delivered Superintendent's Guest Lecture, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, July, 1994.

Chief of Party, Institutional Design of USAID Agricultural Policy Reform Program, Cairo, Egypt, 27 September-26 October, 1994.

Lecture on Democratization in the Arab World, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 23 October, 1994.

Chief of Party, Assessment of Democracy and Governance in Yemen for USAID/San`a, January 6-27, 1995.

Lecture on Contemporary Egyptian politics to the Foreign Service Institute, Washington, D.C., 4 April 1995.

Addressed A.J. Meyer Seminar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 17 April, 1995.

Lecture on Patterns of Democratization in the Arab World, Middle East Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 21 April 1995.

Lecture on Hypotheses on the Yemeni State, School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C., 25 April 1995.

Lecture on the U.S. Approach to Democratization, Middle East Center and Department of Political Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 28 April 1995.

Lecture on Economic Prospects and Social Problems of the Poorer Arab States, Middle East Workshop for 352nd Civil Affairs Command, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., 5 May 1995.

Presentation on civil society in the Middle East to the second annual conference of USAID's Center for Democracy and Governance, Washington, D.C. 26 July 1995.

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Co-organizer of Lessons Learned Conference from the Democratic Institutions Support Project of the Center for Democracy, USAID, Washington, D.C., 27-28 June, 1996.

Chief of Party of Needs Assessment Team of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Ramallah and Gaza, November, 1996.

Chief of Party, Needs Assessment, Romanian Legislature, Bucharest, December 1-10, 1996.

Participation on design team for the Strategic Assessment Framework of the Center for Democracy of USAID, Washington, D.C., December 12-23, 1996.

Delivered paper on Egypt at the Workshop on Political Identities in the Arab World, American University of Beirut, December 16-22, 1997.

Member of Lebanon Governance and Democracy Assessment Team for the Center for Democracy of USAID, Beirut, March 13-29, 1998.

Review of performance indicators for the USAID legislative strengthening program with the Palestinian Legislative Council, April 11-12, 1998, and March, 1999.

Delivered paper on “The Opposition: Secular and Islamist,” at conference on “Egypt under Mubarak,” The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 7-8 May 1998.

Delivered paper on “Civilianization of the Military,” at conference on Armed Forces and Society in the Middle East, sponsored by the International Institute of Strategic Studies and held in Beirut, 27-29 September 1998.

Delivered paper on political structural adjustment in Egypt, to the Robert Schumann Center of the European University, Florence, Italy, 8 March 1999.

Chief of Party of Democracy-Governance Assessment and Technical Assistance for Participatory, Accountable Governance Program, USAID, Cairo, January 1999--April 2000.

Delivered paper on political identity in Egypt, Department of Political Science Villanova University, November, 2000 and the Middle East Center, University of California at Berkeley, April, 2001.

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Delivered papers on globalization and the politics of economic development in the Middle East and North Africa, Middle East Centers of Cairo University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, and Portland State University, November, 2000, November, 2001.

Delivered paper on presidential succession in Egypt at conference on Dynasties and their Creation in the Arab World, sponsored by the Swiss Association of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and the Institute of History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 9 May 2003.

Team leader of research sponsored by the UK Department for International Development of the relationship between the control of oil resources and governance in Iraq, August—September, 2003.

Senior Adviser, UNDP, Egyptian Human Development Report, 2004

Team leader of research sponsored by the UK Department for International Development on poverty and political participation in Iraq, May-July, 2004.

Member of Bradford University team under contract to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office to devise strategy and elaborate implementation mechanisms for the Middle East and North Africa component of the Global Conflict Prevention Pool, May-June, 2003; March-September, 2004.

Member of two person assessment team of the USAID project to assist the Palestine Legislative Council, Ramallah, March-May, 2004.

Briefed the Department of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. State Department on the Palestine Legislative Council, 26 May 2004.

Delivered paper, “The Military as a Political Institution,” to the annual conference on the Middle East and South Asia of NESA of the Central Intelligence Agency, 27-28 May 2004, Vienna, VA.

Participant, Seminar on Challenges of Security Sector Governance in the Middle East, sponsored by the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Geneva, 11-13 July 2004.

Team leader of review of the project of support to the Negotiation Support Unit of the PLO by the governments of the UK, Holland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, Ramallah, October/November, 2004.

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Delivered paper on Other Options in US-EU Democracy Promotion to the Transatlantic Cooperation on Democracy Promotion in the Middle East Workshop, Brussels, 17-18 November 2004.

Member of three person assessment team of the USAID project to assist the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, Cairo, January/February, 2005.

Delivered paper, “Is the concept of cross-border co-operation applicable in the EU’s Southern neighbourhood?” Helsinki, 21-22 October 2005, conference on Building a Secure Neighbourhood for the EU, sponsored by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.

Delivered paper, “The Role of Parliaments and Interparliamentary Dialogue in Democratic Transition—Engaging with Islamists.” NATO Parliamentary Assembly—12th Mediterranean Dialogue Seminar, Istanbul, Turkey, 2-4 May 2006.

Delivered paper, “The Democracy Gap in the MENA and its Consequences,” Royal Danish Defense College, Copenhagen, Denmark, 24 October 2006.

Summarized proceedings of conference on “Political Islam and the European Neighborhood Policy,” co-sponsored by The Centre for European Policy Studies, the Fundacsion para las Relaciones Internacionales and Tres Culturas, Seville, Spain, 24-25 November 2006.

Presentation on “What Role for External Actors?” to the Arab Reform Team, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, 23 January 2007.

Analyst and commentator on “Public Administration and Civil Service Reform in Palestine: Drivers of Change,” UK Department for International Development, study and presentation of document in Ramallah, Palestine, February, 2007.

Delivered keynote speech to conference on political and social protest in Egypt to mark the thirtieth anniversary of The Cairo Papers in Social Science, American University in Cairo, 21 April 2007.

Assessment of USAID/Cairo, Egyptian Decentralisation Initiative, 23 January—5 February 2008.

Delivered address on globalization and the Middle East to the Royal Danish Military Academy, Copenhagen, 1 April 2008.

Delivered paper on Egypt and Turkey at conference on “Turkey and the Middle East” at Sabanci University, Istanbul, 2-3 May 2008.

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Delivered address on the Middle East in the global economy to the Royal Danish Military Academy, Copenhagen, 30 March 2009.

Speech, “Egypt in the 21st Century,” World Affairs Council, Monterey, CA, 27 July 2009.

Mid-term evaluation of USAID/Cairo, Egyptian Decentralisation Initiative, November, 2009.

Delivered paper on “Civilian Control of Arab Armed Forces,” at the annual conference of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, 18 February 2010.

Delivered address on Arab economies to the Royal Danish Military Academy, Copenhagen, 3 April 2010.

Presentation on governance strategies for the MENA to the Middle East Group of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, 3 June 2010.

Assessment of Defense Institution Building in Egypt, U.S. Department of Defense, 5-27 June 2010.

Assessment of de-radicalization programs in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Singapore for USAID, under MSI contract “Peace and Security in the ANE,” DFD-I-20-04-00228-00, July-September, 2010.

Chaired panel on authoritarianism in Egypt, Middle East Studies Association annual meeting, San Diego, November 20, 2010

Presentation on the military in Egypt to the US Department of State/NIC Workshop on Regional Implications of Political Change in Tunisia and Egypt, Washington, D.C., February 28, 2011

Presentation on the Arab Spring to the Italian Institute of International Affairs, Rome, April 15, 2011

Briefing on Egypt for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Department of Research, Middle East, London, May 18, 2011

Presentation on the Arab Spring to the Foreign Policy Committee of the Danish Parliament, Copenhagen, May 25, 2011.

Principal organizer of Foreign Area Officer Skill Sustainment Pilot Program of the DOD for the Middle East, Vicenza, Italy and Monterey, California, May 30-June 10, 2011

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Speech on the current situation in Egypt to the World Affairs Council of Sonoma, June 17, 2011

Participant in Track II discussions in Israel sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the Department of Defense, July 5-7, 2011

Speech on Post-Mubarak Egypt and its Challenges for US Policy, World Affairs Council, Monterey, CA, July 26, 2011

Delivered paper to conference on "Rethinking Western Policies in Light of the Arab Uprising,” Italian Institute of International Affairs, Rome, September 12, 2011

Lecture on “Egypt and the Arab Spring,” to the Program in Public Policy of New York University, Florence, September 21, 2011

Presentation on the Egyptian military, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., October 3, 2011

Keynote speech to conference “Waves of Popular Uprising in the MENA: Regional Response and Impact on Energy Policies,” The Institute of Energy Economics, Tokyo, Japan (October 27-28, 2011)

Presentation on the role of the military in workshop on Egypt, Internal Dynamics and Future Developments, sponsored by the National Intelligence Council and the Department of State, INR, Washington, DC, January 23, 2012

Delivered paper on Arab militaries to conference “The People Want the Fall of the Regime: The Arab Uprisings and the Future of Arab Politics,” Center for Contemporary Arab Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. March 22-23, 2012

Delivered paper on economic challenges facing Egypt’s new order, The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 28, 2012 Delivered paper on the military and Arab springs, The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 29, 2012

Presentation on Arab militaries to the Middle East Group, European University Institute, Florence, Italy April 10, 2012

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Presentation on Arab democratic transitions to the La Pietra Dialogue series of the New York University in Florence, Italy, April 11, 2012

Presentation on Egyptian Armed Forces, Leader Development and Education for Sustained Peace, US Army Central (Third Army), Sumter, SC, 2-4 October 2012

Paper on rule of law in Egypt delivered to conference on the rule of law in the Arab world in transition, Naval War College, Newport, RI, November 8-9, 2012

Delivered presentation to Panel on Egypt, Center for Contemporary Arab Affairs, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, April 11, 2013

Presentation on transformation from post to post, post—colonial Arab States, to workshop conducted for Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah of Morocco, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA April 12-13, 2013

Paper on Egyptian military delivered to conference on Arab civil-security relations sponsored by the Royal Danish Defense College and the University of Copenhagen, April 23-24, 2013.

Paper on Iraqi political economy delivered to conference on How Arab Revolutions are Shaping the New Middle East, Oslo, Norway, University of Oslo, May 2, 2013

Organizer of and presenter to the Middle East and North Africa refresher course for the Foreign Area Officers of the US military, Center for Near East and South Asia, DOD, Washington, D.C., August 12-16, 2013

Presentation on contemporary Egyptian politics to the Monterey Bay World Affairs Council, Monterey, CA, August 21, 2013

Delivered paper on Egypt to lecture series on economic transitions in Egypt to the Middle East Initiative of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 9, 2013

Paper delivered on Arab militaries in regional perspectives to conference on “Military Engagement in Mobilizing Societies: The Middle East in Comparative Perspective,” Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, November 7-9, 2013

Lecture on Egypt’s future, Istituto Affari Internazionale, Rome, 14 November 2013

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Presentation on the disciplinary perspective on states in conference on State of the State in the Middle East and North Africa, Institute of Global Leadership, Fletcher School, Tufts University, February 27, 2014; and lecture on “Education, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development to the EPIC International Symposium, Tufts University, March 2, 2014

Presentation on civil-military relations in Egypt, conference on Security Sector Governance in Egypt: Civil-Military Relations in Focus, Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Montreux (2-4 April 2014)

Lecture on civil-military relations in Egypt, Middle East Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 22, 2014

Delivered paper on clientelism and citizenship at conference on “Arab Citizenship in the New Political Era,” sponsored by the Norwegian Peacebuilding Research Centre and the Netherlands Institute in Morocco, Rabat, Morocco (May 27-31, 2014)

PERSONAL

Citizen of Australia and the United States. Married, three children.

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