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Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy

Dr Richard Al-Qaq

BSc (Birmingham), MSc (LSE), PhD (SOAS)

Overview

Richard Al Qaq
Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD)

Research Associate

Name:
Dr Richard Al-Qaq

Biography

Richard Kareem Al-Qaq holds a PhD in Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Between 2002 and 2007, Dr. Al-Qaq taught post-graduate International Relations at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy.

Research

The United Nations, Peace Operations, Conflict and Intervention in Sub-Sahara Africa, US Foreign Policy, The International Relations of Emerging Powers.

Publications

Academic Books
  • Richard K Al-Qaq Managing World Order: United Nations Peace Operations and the Security Agenda (London: I.B. Tauris, 2009).
Review of Books
  • Forthcoming: David Chandler (ed.) Statebuilding and Intervention: Policies, Practices and Paradigms in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2011.
  • Marcus Franda, The United Nations in the Twenty-First Century: Management and Reform Processes in a Troubled Organization in International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London), volume 83 number 3, 2007.
  • Adam LeBor, Complicity with Evil: the UN in the Age of Modern Genocide in International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London), volume 83, number 2, 2007, pp.355-356.
  • Michael Barnett, Eyewitness to a Genocide: the United Nations and Rwanda in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, volume 72, number 4, 2002, p.658;
  • Paul Hare, Angola’s Last Best Chance For Peace in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, volume 71, number 2, 2001, p.321.
Open-Ed Pieces and Commentary
  • “Difícil manter a ditadura de um só partido”
    Folha de Sao Paulo, February 5, 2011 Authors: Richard Kareem Al-Qaq
    OP-ED piece for the Folha de Sao Paulo, page 3
    http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/2011/2/5/2
  • “Analise: Novo doutrina põe entidade em função não é a sua”
    Folha de Sao Paulo April 6, 2011 Authors: Richard Al-Qaq
    Analysis of the use of force by UN peacekeeping in the Ivory Coast page A14
    http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/2011/4/6/2
  • “Analise: Mundo deve ter cautela para nao forcar Assad a vai military”
    Folha de Sao Paulo August 4, 2011 Authors: Richard Al-Qaq
    Analysis on Syria for Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil, Page A15
    http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/2011/08/04/2
  • “Analise: Acao da Otan na Libia revive espectro da Guerra Fria”
    Folha de Sao Paulo October 23, 2011 Authors: Richard Al-Qaq
    Analysis of end of Nato's operation in Libya
    http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/2011/10/23/2