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Sectarian Power-Sharing in Lebanon: Perils and Appeals, Professor Aytuğ Şaşmaz, Bryn Mawr College
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Aytuğ Şaşmaz is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College, specializing in the comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa. His research focuses on secular-religious electoral competition, political parties and organizations, youth political and civic engagement, and democratic decline. He also studies social policy in contexts of ethnic and organizational diversity, as well as the role of international organizations in managing refugee movements.
His current book project examines why secular parties in the Middle East and North Africa struggled to build a strong electoral alternative to Islamist parties following the 2011-2013 popular uprisings. His dissertation, which forms the basis of this book, was awarded the Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation on a subject related to the promotion of world peace by Harvard University's Department of Government. His work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Governance, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Development Economics, and World Development.
Before joining Bryn Mawr, Aytuğ was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University (2021-22) and a Pre-doctoral Fellow at the Middle East Initiative (MEI) at Harvard Kennedy School. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 2021. He also holds M.A. and M.Sc. degrees from Brown University and the London School of Economics. He is a proud alumnus of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey.
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