FEATURED AUTHOR

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou

Professor
The Graduate Institute, Geneva

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou is Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and also teaches at the Doctoral School at Sciences Po Paris. Previously, he was the Associate Director of the Programme on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University and Deputy-Director and Academic Dean of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

Subjects: History, Middle East Studies, Military & Security Studies

Biography

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou is Deputy Director and Academic Dean of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. Previously, Professor Mohamedou was Associate Director of the Harvard University Programme on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. He is the author of Iraq and the Second Gulf War (2002), Contre-Croisade – Le 11 Septembre et le Retournement du Monde (2004), Understanding Al Qaeda – Changing War and Global Politics (2011), and co-editor of Democratisation in the 21st Century (2016). He has also contributed chapters to An International History of Terrorism (2012), La Guerre au Mali (2013), The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West (2013), and Minding the Gap – African Conflict Management in a Time of Change (2016). In 2013-2015, he was a Commissioner in the Kofi Annan-appointed West Africa Commission on Drugs. His research focuses on political violence and transnational terrorism, the transformation of warfare, transitions to democracy, and contemporary Middle Eastern and North African sociopolitical developments and conflicts.