Toby Dodge

Professor

London School of Economics and Political Science London School of Economics and Political Science

Toby Dodge is a professor in the International Relations Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also Research Director for Iraq, in the DFID funded Conflict Research Programme.

His main areas of research include the comparative politics and historical sociology of the Middle East, the politics of intervention, the evolution of the Iraqi state and state-society dynamics and political identities in Iraq.

KEY PUBLICATIONS

  • Inventing Iraq: The failure of nation building and a history denied (2003)
  • Iraq's Future: The Aftermath of Regime Change (2005)
  • Iraq: From War to a New Authoritarianism (2013) and four edited volumes
  • Middle Eastern Security, the US Pivot and the Rise of ISIS
  • Afghanistan; to 2015 and beyond
  • Iraq at the crossroads: state and society in the shadow of regime change
  • Globalisation and the Middle East, Islam, economics, culture and politics.
  • He has published research papers in Historical Sociology, The Review of International Studies, International Affairs, International Peacekeeping, Third World Quarterly, Monde Arabe, Maghreb-Machrek and Contemporary Arab Affairs.
Posts from Toby Dodge (Show All)
Social Theory: Pierre Bourdieu Toby Dodge ‘Using Pierre Bourdieu’s “thinking tools” to understand Middle East politics’. Introduction. An increasing number of academics seeking to understand the complexities of the contemporary Middle East are reaching for Pierre Bourdieu’s... Read More
The contradictions of systemic sectarianism in Iraq This piece is taken from the SEPAD report ‘Sectarianism in the Longue Duree’ available here: https://www.sepad.org.uk/report/sectarianism-in-the-longue-duree  Iraq’s political system, an elite pact, was imposed upon the country in the... Read More
Special Section: Nations and Nationalism SEPAD fellows have contributed to a special section of Nations and Nationalism (organised by Toby Dodge) exploring tensions between Wataniyya and Ta’ifia. The special section (available here) is comprised of the following... Read More
Reports from Toby Dodge (Show All)
Iraq and Muhasasa Ta’ifia; the external imposition of sectarian politics In the aftermath of invasion and regime change in 2003, Iraq’s political field was deliberately and overtly restructured around an informal version of consociationalism, the Muhasasa Ta’ifia (sectarian apportionment) system. This exclusive elite... Read More
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