First Book Project
Nasir Almasri. The Rise and Fall of Radical Movements in the Middle East (Learn more).
Working Papers
Nasir Almasri. “The Pendulum Effect: Shifting Dominance between Moderate and Radical Factions in Opposition Groups” (Under Review).
Nasir Almasri. “Islam, the War on Terror, and the Pitfalls of the Moderate-Radical Dichotomy” (Under Review).
Nasir Almasri, Dana El Kurd, and Alexei Abrahams. “Social Media, Transnational Activism, and Demobilization” (Under Review).
Nasir Almasri, Dana El Kurd, and Alexei Abrahams. “Mobilization without Organization.”
Work in Progress
Nasir Almasri and Marsin Alshamary. “The New Political Class: The Rise of Madani Parties in the Middle East.”
Nasir Almasri and Ameni Mehrez. “Conspiracy or Incompetency? Why Islamist Parties Fail in Office.”
Nasir Almasri. “Rich City, Poor State: The Dubai Model and Economic Instability.”
Nasir Almasri. “Communist Extermination: Long-Term Consequences of American Policy in the Global South.”
Nasir Almasri. “A Third Lebanon War? Technological Advancement, Civilian-Centric-Warfare, and Israel’s Ground-Air War Dilemma.”
The Discipline
Nasir Almasri, Blair Read, and Clara Vandeweerdt. 2021. “Mental Health and the PhD: Insights and Implications for Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics.
Nasir Almasri and Dana El Kurd. 2022. “Mental Health and Well-Being in Grad School.” In Strategies for Navigating Grad School and Beyond, the American Political Science Association, edited by Kevin Lorentz II, Daniel J. Mallinson, Julia M. Hellwege, Davin Phoenix, and J. Cherie Strachan.
Nasir Almasri and Amirah Aly. “When Work is Personal: Closeness to Research and Its Effect on Productivity and Well-Being.” In Academic Chutes and Ladders: How the Hidden Curriculum Makes or Breaks Academic Careers, edited by Kerry Crawford and Leah Windsor.
Second Project: Regional Power Competition and the Palestinian National Movement
This second book-length project explores how Arab regimes in the colonial and early post-colonial periods resolved tensions between their interests in advancing their regional power position while supporting Palestinian resistance to Israel, and how they managed this tension while maintaining support at home. The project draws on three original datasets to explain how these tensions shaped Arab states’ relationships with the Palestinian national movement – a movement repeatedly referenced by all Arab regimes and opposition groups in the region as central to their cause. The first dataset codes the relationships between Middle Eastern regimes and factions within the Palestinian National Movement from the 1920s until the Oslo Accords in 1993 at the year-dyad level. The second records relationships between Israel and other Middle Eastern states since its founding in 1948, also at the year-dyad level. The third dataset codes the consequences of events in Palestine for the relationships between Arab states and domestic opposition movements that challenge them. The project leverages these datasets to narrate the historical and contemporary impetuses for stances on Palestine and to explain the consequences of regional power struggles for the Palestinian situation.