The Art of Not Governing: Local Politics and Democratic Decline in Lebanon
hosted by Professor
Sarah E. Parkinson
Christiana Parreira
Assistant Professor, International Relations/Political Science
The talk will be based on Christiana Parreira's book project, discussing local governance during and after the Lebanese civil war.
CHRISTIANA PARREIRA
Christiana Parreira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute. Her research focuses on the role of local political institutions and actors in governance, looking primarily at post-conflict contexts in the Middle East and North Africa. Her forthcoming book project examines how local governments and elections facilitated predatory state-building practices in Lebanon. In other research, she examines determinants of governance quality and distributive outcomes in Lebanon, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Global South. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2020. Before joining the Graduate Institute, she served as a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and a pre-doctoral associate at the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative.
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