Sultan Alamer

Sultan Alamer is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Sultan Alamer was a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie Middle East Program. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. His research focuses on nationalism and state-formation, governance and technology, and regional politics in the broader Middle East, with a special focus on the Arab Gulf countries.

Sultan holds a Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University. His dissertation focuses on national-building strategies and state-formation in Saudi Arabia. His publications include “Beyond Sectarianism and Ideology: Regionalism and Collective Political Action” in Salman’s Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia (Oxford University Press, 2018), “The Role of Global Consultant Companies in Decision-Making Processes in Gulf Countries” in Economic Reform in the Gulf Region Amid an Oil Crisis (Gulf Center for Development Policies, 2017), and “The Margin When It Overthrows the Center: A Study on the Political Aspects of Mohammed Abedal-Jabri” (Jadawel for Publishing and Translation, 2011).

Sultan is the co-founder and a member of the executive committee of the Arab Political Science Network. He is a Bucerius Fellow at Zeit-Stiftung Ebling und Gerd Bucerius, and the executive producer of the Arabic Academic podcast Ghain. He wrote for the New Lines Magazine, the Arab Reform Initiative, the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, The Gulf Center for Development Policies, and Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum. He was a weekly syndicated op-ed writer for the Arab international newspapers Al-Hayat, and Al-Arabi Al-Jadid, and the Saudi newspapers Okaz and Al-Bilad.