Status
Associate Professor

Department
National Security Affairs

Contact
ambaylou@nps.edu

Web Page
http://faculty.nps.edu/ambaylou

Research Interests
Comparative politics and political economy; Middle East and North Africa; Social movements, protest, and terrorism; Political Islam

Biography

Anne Marie Baylouny received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is active in theorizing Islamist social mobilization and the use of terrorist tactics, specializing in the eastern Mediterranean of the Arab world.

On this subject, Baylouny has authored a chapter on tactics in the second Palestinian intifada, "Oslo’s Success, a Militarized Resistance: Changing Opposition Tactics in the Palestinian Territories," in James A. Russell, ed., Critical Issues in Middle East Security (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and a comparison of Hezbollah’s television station and the American sponsored one, “Countering Arab Television? Assessing the Effect of Alhurra, the U.S. Satellite Station,” in Anne Aldis and Graeme P. Herd, eds., The Ideological War on Terror: Worldwide strategies for counter-terrorism (New York, Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, 2007). She is also author of "Al Manar and Alhurra: Competing Satellite Stations and Ideologies," Occasional Paper Series No. 2 (George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, 2006), which has been reprinted in “Al Manar and Alhurra: Competing Satellite Stations and Ideologies,” January 2007 (in Russian).

She has authored numerous articles on Islamism and democracy in the e-journal Strategic Insights and Connections, the Marshall Center’s journal. On Jordanian politics Baylouny published “Jordan’s New ‘Political Development’ Strategy,” Middle East Report 236 (Fall 2005) and “Creating Kin: New Family Associations as Welfare Providers in Liberalizing Jordan,” is forthcoming from the International Journal of Middle East Studies. She has spoken on Islamic feminism and Islamist social organizing to the World Affairs Council of Northern California, has given papers at APSA and MESA conventions, and has been interviewed in numerous media.

Baylouny’s manuscript, Fragmented Oppositions & Islamist Dominance: Social Mobilization in the Liberalizing Middle East (in preparation), focuses on Lebanon and Jordan in economic liberalization. The study demonstrates the practical mechanisms at work behind the inability of non-Islamist civil society to organize at the national level, and the re-creation of tribal institutions to serve middle class needs in austerity.

Baylouny has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards—Fulbright, the Social Science Research Council, and the Mellon Foundation, among others. Before entering academia, she was spokesperson on discrimination and human rights for a national Arab American organization, and authored "Human Rights Considerations in the United States-Israeli Relationship," in Israel: Opposing Viewpoints (Greenhaven, CT: Greenhaven Press, 1994). Baylouny has traveled extensively in the Arab East, living in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan for long periods. She speaks Arabic, classical and Levantine dialects, French, Italian, and Spanish.

For more information, please visit her faculty web page at: http://faculty.nps.edu/ambaylou.