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Marc Lynch
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Middle East Program

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Marc Lynch is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Marc Lynch was a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program where his work focuses on the politics of the Arab world. He is also a professor of political science at the George Washington University, where he recently completed a six-year term as director of the Institute for Middle East Studies. He is the director of the Project on Middle East Political Science, an international network of scholars, and a contributing editor of the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. He received a B.A. from Duke University and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and previously taught at Williams College. His newest book, The New Arab Wars, was published by Public Affairs in 2016; other recent books include The Arab Uprising (Public Affairs, 2012) and The Arab Uprisings Explained (Columbia University Press, 2014). In 2016, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow to conduct research on the legacies of post-Arab uprising violence.


All work from Marc Lynch

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In the Media
Expect a Tumultuous 2020 in the Middle East

Usually, when the U.S. government changes hands, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East remains steady and consistent. No more.

· January 1, 2020
Washington Post
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Up Without Arms

The Arab uprisings of 2019 are stages in a political struggle that is likely to continue.

· December 16, 2019
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The Stability Story

Authoritarian Arab regimes are reshaping the message from recent protests in Algeria and Sudan to their own advantage.

· May 6, 2019
In the Media
Does the Decline of U.S. Power Matter For the Middle East?

As priorities diverge and the United States is dragged into peripheral battles, the deterioration of its Middle East alliance system can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

· March 19, 2019
Washington Post
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Changing the Story

Why Arab satellite channels have not watched recent protests in the same way that they did in 2011.

· March 13, 2019
commentary