Rate My Professor Benjamin MacQueen

Previously, Associate Professor MacQueen served as an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where he examined US democracy promotion policy in the Middle East and North Africa as part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP0770266). His major publications include the book An Introduction to Middle East Politics (second edition, SAGE Publications, 2018), Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab World: Lebanon and Algeria (2009), and Islam and Human Rights in Practice: Perspectives Across the Ummah (co-edited with Shahram Akbarzadeh, 2008). Key articles encompass 'Democratization, elections and the ‘de facto state dilemma’: Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government' (2015), 'Lebanon’s Electoral System: Is Reform Possible?' (Middle East Policy, 2016), 'The Saudi State as an Identity Racketeer' (Middle East Critique, 2017), 'Lebanon’s Parliament System as a Form of Institutionalized Hybridity' (Middle East Law and Governance, 2021), and 'Hezbollah: between nationalism and Islamism' (Routledge Handbook of Political Islam, 2021). He has also co-authored works on refugees and political stability in Lebanon (2014) and organized events such as the Australian Political Science Association Conference in 2017.