Department of Development Studies

Mr Joshua Rogers

Key information

Roles
Department of Development Studies Graduate Teaching Assistant
Email address
jr51@soas.ac.uk

Biography

Joshua Rogers is a Doctoral candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at SOAS, where he works on dynamics of state formation under conditions of conflict and external intervention and teaches and lectures on the political economy of violence, conflict and development. Joshua’s regional expertise is in the Middle East and North Africa and other research interests include protest and mobilisation and war to peace transitions. He has published on the mechanisms linking conflict and state-formation, Egypt’s statebuilding in Yemen, youth demands in Yemen’s change squares, and a range of other topics. Joshua  holds a BA from Oxford University and completed his MA at the Free University in Berlin and Sciences Po Paris. He has done work for Saferworld, DfID, the OECD, and the EU Delegation in Sana’a.

Research interests

Political economy of conflict; Middle East and North Africa; Yemen; state-formation and state-building in conflict settings

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