Frederic Wehrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4383300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederic Wehrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederic |
| FAMILY NAME | Wehrey |
| SIGNATURE | WEHREY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Salafism in the Maghreb: Politics, Piety, and Militancy
This volume explores the growth and transformation of a particular variant of Islamism—Salafism—in the Maghreb region. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and from previous scholarship on Salafi typologies—specifically, quietist, political, and jihadist variants—it seeks to understand the socioeconomic and political drivers between the growth or diminishing of each trend. The volume pays particular attention to exploring how state-sponsored Salafists …
Beyond Sunni and Shia: The Roots of Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East
The Authoritarian Resurgence: Saudi Arabia’s Anxious Autocrats
Since the 2011 Arab uprisings, Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy in the Middle East has been nonideological, realist, and defensive in intent, but negative in its implications for democracy. To contain Iran, quarantine the Muslim Brotherhood, and combat jihadism, Riyadh has backed local actors that are mostly authoritarian and antiliberal—and the net effect has been damaging for political pluralism and civil society. While the succession to King Salm…
Sectarian Politics In The Gulf From The Iraq War To The Arab Uprisings
The Saudi Thermidor
Saudi Arabia has emerged as the most vigorous stalwart of what can best be described as the reactionary period of the Arab uprisings—their ‘Thermidorian’ phase
Perilous Desert: Insecurity in the Sahara
The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the region's most fragile states, exploiting widespread corruption, weak government capacity, crushing poverty, and entrenched social and ethnic tensions. The unrest spills over borders and aggravates protracted regional crises. This insecurity raises urgent concerns for the broader Sahara and the …
Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings
Libya's Revolution at Two Years: Perils and Achievements
More than two years after its Revolution, Libya is a country caught in the throes of troubling challenges – and remarkable achievements. Western commentary on its status often varies wildly, betwee
Perilous Desert: Insecurity in the Sahara
The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the region's most fragile states, exploiting widespread corruption, weak government capacity, crushing poverty, and entrenched social and ethnic tensions. The unrest spills over borders and aggravates protracted regional crises. This insecurity raises urgent concerns for the broader Sahara and the …
Bahrain’s Decade of Discontent
Sparked by the protests in Tunis and Cairo, the 2011 Pearl Roundabout uprising was a watershed in the political life of Bahrain—an unprecedented challenge to the tiny island kingdom’s ruling bargain and, ultimately, its social fabric. And while the dramatic events unfolding in Tunis and in Tahrir Square may have sparked the Pearl Roundabout uprising, the seeds of dissent were sown much earlier, as Bahrain’s post-2001 parliamentary experiment came…
Coping with a Nuclearizing Iran
Some time in the coming decade, Iran will probably acquire nuclear weapons or the capacity to quickly produce them. This monograph provides a midterm strategy for dealing with Iran that neither begins nor ends at the point at which Tehran acquires a nuclear weapon capability. It proposes an approach that neither acquiesces to a nuclear-armed Iran nor refuses to admit the possibility — indeed, the likelihood — of this occurring.
Uprisings Jolt the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry
Saudi and Iranian meddling aggravates a divisive, dangerous form of identity politics in fragile, vulnerable states
Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics: (526362012-001)
The Islamic Republic of Iran is now perceived by many as a rising power in the Middle East and a long-term challenge to U.S. regional interests. The fall of Iran's archenemy, Saddam Hussein, has enabled it to expand its influence in Iraq and beyond. Its nuclear program continues relatively unabated, with the Islamic Republic defying international condemnation and sanction to pursue an ostensibly civilian nuclear program -- a program that could, t…
Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads: An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics
The U.S. ability to “read” the Iranian regime and formulate appropriate policies has been weakened by lack of access to the country and by the opacity of decisionmaking in Tehran. To improve understanding of Iran's political system, the authors describe Iranian strategic culture; investigate Iran's informal networks, formal government institutions, and personalities; assess the impact of elite behavior on Iranian policy; and summarize key trends
Containing Iran: Avoiding a Two-Dimensional Strategy in a Four-Dimensional Region
The Rise of the Pasdaran: Assessing the Domestic Roles of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
Founded by a decree from Ayatollah Khomeini shortly after the victory of the 1978 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has evolved well beyond its original foundations as an ideological guard for the nascent revolutionary regime. Today, the IRGC functions as an expansive socio-political-economic conglomerate whose influence extends into virtually every corner of Iranian political life and society. Bound togeth…
More Freedom, Less Terror: Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World
A key tenet of U.S. foreign policy has been that promoting democracy reduces terrorism; however, scant empirical evidence links democracy to terrorism, positively or negatively. This study explores the relationship between the two by examining the effects of liberalization processes on political violence in six Arab cases
A Nuclear Iran: The Reactions of Neighbours
A Clash of Wills: Hizballah's Psychological Campaign Against Israel in South Lebanon
This article analyzes Hizballah's war against Israel in south Lebanon as a psychological contest where public opinion, perception, and persuasion were the real determinants of victory. Hizballah successfully mobilized popular support for its war by communicating nationalist and religious themes to different sectarian groups in Lebanon. At the same time, it used classic guerrilla warfare as a carefully calibrated psychological tool to erode the mo…
Bahrain’s Decade of Discontent
Sparked by the protests in Tunis and Cairo, the 2011 Pearl Roundabout uprising was a watershed in the political life of Bahrain—an unprecedented challenge to the tiny island kingdom’s ruling bargain and, ultimately, its social fabric. And while the dramatic events unfolding in Tunis and in Tahrir Square may have sparked the Pearl Roundabout uprising, the seeds of dissent were sown much earlier, as Bahrain’s post-2001 parliamentary experiment came…
The Authoritarian Resurgence: Saudi Arabia’s Anxious Autocrats
Since the 2011 Arab uprisings, Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy in the Middle East has been nonideological, realist, and defensive in intent, but negative in its implications for democracy. To contain Iran, quarantine the Muslim Brotherhood, and combat jihadism, Riyadh has backed local actors that are mostly authoritarian and antiliberal—and the net effect has been damaging for political pluralism and civil society. While the succession to King Salm…
Libya's Revolution at Two Years: Perils and Achievements
More than two years after its Revolution, Libya is a country caught in the throes of troubling challenges – and remarkable achievements. Western commentary on its status often varies wildly, betwee
A Nuclear Iran: The Reactions of Neighbours
A Clash of Wills: Hizballah's Psychological Campaign Against Israel in South Lebanon
This article analyzes Hizballah's war against Israel in south Lebanon as a psychological contest where public opinion, perception, and persuasion were the real determinants of victory. Hizballah successfully mobilized popular support for its war by communicating nationalist and religious themes to different sectarian groups in Lebanon. At the same time, it used classic guerrilla warfare as a carefully calibrated psychological tool to erode the mo…
Containing Iran: Avoiding a Two-Dimensional Strategy in a Four-Dimensional Region
A Clash of Wills: Hizballah's Psychological Campaign Against Israel in South Lebanon
This article analyzes Hizballah's war against Israel in south Lebanon as a psychological contest where public opinion, perception, and persuasion were the real determinants of victory. Hizballah successfully mobilized popular support for its war by communicating nationalist and religious themes to different sectarian groups in Lebanon. At the same time, it used classic guerrilla warfare as a carefully calibrated psychological tool to erode the mo…
A Nuclear Iran: The Reactions of Neighbours
The Rise of the Pasdaran: Assessing the Domestic Roles of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
Founded by a decree from Ayatollah Khomeini shortly after the victory of the 1978 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has evolved well beyond its original foundations as an ideological guard for the nascent revolutionary regime. Today, the IRGC functions as an expansive socio-political-economic conglomerate whose influence extends into virtually every corner of Iranian political life and society. Bound togeth…
More Freedom, Less Terror: Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World
A key tenet of U.S. foreign policy has been that promoting democracy reduces terrorism; however, scant empirical evidence links democracy to terrorism, positively or negatively. This study explores the relationship between the two by examining the effects of liberalization processes on political violence in six Arab cases
Containing Iran: Avoiding a Two-Dimensional Strategy in a Four-Dimensional Region
Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics: (526362012-001)
The Islamic Republic of Iran is now perceived by many as a rising power in the Middle East and a long-term challenge to U.S. regional interests. The fall of Iran's archenemy, Saddam Hussein, has enabled it to expand its influence in Iraq and beyond. Its nuclear program continues relatively unabated, with the Islamic Republic defying international condemnation and sanction to pursue an ostensibly civilian nuclear program -- a program that could, t…
Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads: An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics
The U.S. ability to “read” the Iranian regime and formulate appropriate policies has been weakened by lack of access to the country and by the opacity of decisionmaking in Tehran. To improve understanding of Iran's political system, the authors describe Iranian strategic culture; investigate Iran's informal networks, formal government institutions, and personalities; assess the impact of elite behavior on Iranian policy; and summarize key trends
Coping with a Nuclearizing Iran
Some time in the coming decade, Iran will probably acquire nuclear weapons or the capacity to quickly produce them. This monograph provides a midterm strategy for dealing with Iran that neither begins nor ends at the point at which Tehran acquires a nuclear weapon capability. It proposes an approach that neither acquiesces to a nuclear-armed Iran nor refuses to admit the possibility — indeed, the likelihood — of this occurring.
Uprisings Jolt the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry
Saudi and Iranian meddling aggravates a divisive, dangerous form of identity politics in fragile, vulnerable states
Perilous Desert: Insecurity in the Sahara
The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the region's most fragile states, exploiting widespread corruption, weak government capacity, crushing poverty, and entrenched social and ethnic tensions. The unrest spills over borders and aggravates protracted regional crises. This insecurity raises urgent concerns for the broader Sahara and the …
Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings
Libya's Revolution at Two Years: Perils and Achievements
More than two years after its Revolution, Libya is a country caught in the throes of troubling challenges – and remarkable achievements. Western commentary on its status often varies wildly, betwee
Perilous Desert: Insecurity in the Sahara
The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the region's most fragile states, exploiting widespread corruption, weak government capacity, crushing poverty, and entrenched social and ethnic tensions. The unrest spills over borders and aggravates protracted regional crises. This insecurity raises urgent concerns for the broader Sahara and the …
Bahrain’s Decade of Discontent
Sparked by the protests in Tunis and Cairo, the 2011 Pearl Roundabout uprising was a watershed in the political life of Bahrain—an unprecedented challenge to the tiny island kingdom’s ruling bargain and, ultimately, its social fabric. And while the dramatic events unfolding in Tunis and in Tahrir Square may have sparked the Pearl Roundabout uprising, the seeds of dissent were sown much earlier, as Bahrain’s post-2001 parliamentary experiment came…
Sectarian Politics In The Gulf From The Iraq War To The Arab Uprisings
The Saudi Thermidor
Saudi Arabia has emerged as the most vigorous stalwart of what can best be described as the reactionary period of the Arab uprisings—their ‘Thermidorian’ phase
The Authoritarian Resurgence: Saudi Arabia’s Anxious Autocrats
Since the 2011 Arab uprisings, Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy in the Middle East has been nonideological, realist, and defensive in intent, but negative in its implications for democracy. To contain Iran, quarantine the Muslim Brotherhood, and combat jihadism, Riyadh has backed local actors that are mostly authoritarian and antiliberal—and the net effect has been damaging for political pluralism and civil society. While the succession to King Salm…
Beyond Sunni and Shia: The Roots of Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East
Salafism in the Maghreb: Politics, Piety, and Militancy
This volume explores the growth and transformation of a particular variant of Islamism—Salafism—in the Maghreb region. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and from previous scholarship on Salafi typologies—specifically, quietist, political, and jihadist variants—it seeks to understand the socioeconomic and political drivers between the growth or diminishing of each trend. The volume pays particular attention to exploring how state-sponsored Salafists …
Political science (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Islamic Studies and History (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · politics and government (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (6 works)