Biography:Abdul-Monem Al-Mashat

Abdul-Monem Al-Mashat
Nationality	Egypt
Alma mater	Cairo University
Scientific career
Fields	Political science National Security

Abdul-Monem Al-Mashat (Arabic: عبدالمنعم المشّاط) is an Egyptian political scientist and an expert on national security. He served on the Egyptian Embassy in Washington DC, the World Bank, Institute of International Education and as a director of several research institutions in addition to numerous academic positions.

Biography

Al-Mashat's publications, since 1977, covered the topics of national security, the Arab-Israeli conflict, foreign policy in the Arab World, Arab culture, educational reform, development in Arab World, Arab security, US foreign policy and political development in the third world among others.

Al-Mashat obtained his BA and MA in political science from Cairo University in 1970 and 1975 respectively, and his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982 with a title for his thesis as: "Considerations in the Analysis of National Security in the Third World".

Academic titles

• 2005–Present — Cairo University, Department of Political Science, professor of political science
• 1992-1995 — Cairo University, Department of Political Science, professor
• 1992-1993 — American University in Cairo, Department of Political Science, professor
• 1986-1992 — Al-Ain University, UAE, Department of Political Science, professor
• 1982-1986 — Cairo University, Department of Political Science, professor
• 1981-1982 — City University of New York (Images of Conflict Project), adjunct assistant professor.
• 1975 — Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy, the Socialist Republic of Romania, participant in the three months seminar on the “Third World Relations with the Advanced Nations."
• 1974-1977 — Cairo University, Department of Political Science, assistant lecturer

Career

• 2006 - present the dean of the faculty of economic and political science Future University in Egypt
• February 2010 – present — Director, Cairo Center for the Culture of Democracy, a research & training center.
• June 2006- August 2008 — Professor and Director, Center for Political Research and Studies, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
• December 2006 – present — Founder and CEO, Cairo Center for Civic Education and Development (CCCED), a research and training think tank.
• September 2005 – present — Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
• March 1998-August 2005 — Scholarships Administrator, the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP) and the Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program (RSMFP), the World Bank, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
• 2000-2005— Member of the reviewing committee of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program, Institute of International Education. Actively engaged in the selection of Hubert Humphrey Fellows by reviewing and evaluating applicants’ files.
• 1995- March 1998 — Cultural and Educational Counselor and Director, Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau (ECEB), the Embassy of Egypt, Washington, DC.
• 1994-1995 — Vice Dean, the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences (FEPS), Cairo University.

Awards

• Citation of Stewardship and Commitment to Field of International Development from Harvard University. (2002)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) award to participate in the Annual Convention in Washington DC, January. (1981)
• University of North Carolina Graduate School Award to study American Policy in Washington. (1978)
• Nasser’s Award for Excellence in High School Exam in Egypt. (1965)

Affiliations

• 2009–Present — Member, Board of Directors, Center for National Studies at National Council of Women.
• 2008–Present — Selected Member of the Economic and Political Science Accreditation and Quality Control National Commission.
• 2007–Present — Member of First Circuit of the Supreme Administrative Court for Political Parties, State Council which reviews appeals from rejected political parties.
• 2005 — Member of the Supreme Council of Culture, Egypt.
• 2004 — Member, Advisory Board, Association of Egyptian- American Scholars.
• 2000-2005 — Member, the Selection Committee for Hubert Humphrey Fellowships.
• 1997–Present — Member, Advisory Board, Al-Hewar Center, Vienna, Virginia, USA.
• 1987–Present — Member, Arab International Studies Association.
• 1985–Present — Member, Arab Political Science Association.
• 1985–Present — Member, Royal Institute of Strategic Studies, London.
• 1985–Present — Consultant to a number of Ministries/Agencies in Egypt
• 1983-1985 — Re-elect Member, the Executive Council of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA).
• 1982 — Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• 1981-1983 — Elect Member, the Executive Council of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA).

Publications

• 2015

- From Independence to Revolutions: The Fate of Arab States, Paper presented at International Conference on "Middle East Strategic Landscape: 100 Years after the First World War", Future University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, September 12- 14.
- Contemporary Changes in International System, Arab Strategic Report, Al-Ahram Center for Strategic and Political Studies, 2013-2014.
- Changes in US Foreign Policy and its Impact on International Relations, Al-Syassa Al-Dawleya, April.
- The International Alliance against ISIL: Goals and Contradictions, Al-Siyassa Al-Dawliya, January.

• 2014

- Egyptian National Security after June 30 Revolution, Al-Siyassa Al-Dawliya, October.
- The Middle East "System" at Stake, Lecture presented at NATO Defense College, Rome, Italy, September.

• 2013

- Keynote Speaker on: Civic Education in Transitional Democracy: The Case of Egypt Civic Education Conference in Egypt (CEC), Alexandria December 8-10, 2013.

• 2012

- Egypt’s Regional Security Policy after the January 25 Revolution, The Changing Middle East: Implications for Regional and Global Politics, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), New York, July 2012. http://www.fes.de/cgi-bin/gbv.cgi?id=09264&ty=pdf

• 2010

- Political Interactions between Canada & the Arab World, presented at Roundtable discussion on Canada & the Arab World: Partners for the Future, League of Arab States, Cairo, October 31- November 2.
- National Security and Human Safety, Paper presented at the Scientific Conference on "Comprehensive Arab National Security, Reality and Prospects", Amman, Jordon, July 12–14.

• 2009

- The Transformation of the International System Toward Conciliatory Multilateralism, International Politics, No. 178, October 2009, pp. 40– 49.
- Pirates Crisis in the Horn of Africa and its Impact on Egyptian and Arab National Security, Parliamentary Research Institute, People's Assembly, Egypt.

• 2008

- Political Finance Systems in Egypt- Regulation and Disclosure: The Way out, Paper presented at 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference, October 30 - November 2, Athens, Greece.
- National Security, Concepts, International Center for Future and Strategic Studies, June.
- Managing Natural Disasters through Water Dams: The Case of Tajikistan, paper presented at International Conference on Water Related Disasters Reduction, June 27–29, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
- The Palestinian Question and the Fate of Arab National Security (El Syassa El Dawliya), April.
- Politics of Constructive Engagement: The Foreign Policy of the United Arab Emirates, in Ali Dessouki and Bahgat Korany (eds.) The Foreign Policies of Arab States.
- Regional Foreign Policy of Egypt: Challenges to Moderation, in Paul Salem (ed.) Arab Regional Foreign Policies, Carnegie International Endowment for Peace (Forthcoming).

• 2007

- Regional Change in the Middle East, Paper Presented at the International Conference on Economic Transformation and Social Change in the Middle East, December 5, 2007 at Academy of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany.
- Towards Achieving the MDGs: A Holistic Approach to Development: The Experience of Egypt, Paper Presented at International Conference on: Poverty and Distribution Amidst Diversity: Options and Challenges for Development, 13–14 August 2007, Center for Poverty and Development Studies (CPDS), Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Malaysia.

• 2006

- Constitutional Reform or Change, paper presented at The 12th Annual Egyptian French Colloquial on Political Reform in the Arab World: Cultural and Political Debates, France, October 2006.

• 1998

- Zarif F. Bacilious, Barbara J. Nelson and Abdul-Monem Al-Mashat, Comparison of Selected Aspects of Commitment to Education, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of The American Economic Association, Jan. 3-5, 1998, Chicago, IL.

• 1997

- The Gulf War and the Environment (ed. by Farouk El-Baz and R. M. Makharita) book review, Environment and Nutritional Interactions.
-Cultural and Scientific Relations between Egyptian Universities and Foreign Universities: Future Perspective, presented at Cairo University Conference on the “Development of Cultural and Scientific Interactions”, October 19–21, 1997 (in Arabic).
-The Impact of Mars Findings: A Perspective from the Religion of Islam, in John M. Logsdon, Bridget R. Ziegelaar and Anne Marie Burns (ed.) Life on Mars: What Are the Implications? The Elliot School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, 1997.

• 1995

- Cultural Interactions between Egypt and USA, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (in Arabic).
- The Economic Summit in Casablanca, World Politics, January 1995 (in Arabic).
- The Egyptian Capabilities Qualifying for Regional Rule, in Abdul-Monem Al-Mashat (ed.) The Role of Egypt in the Middle East, Cairo, Center for Political Research and Studies, 1995 (in Arabic).

• 1994

- Peace as a Developmental Process in the Middle East, Political Science Research Papers, Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1994.
- Education Reforms in Egypt, paper presented at the Euro-Arab Dialogue Conference on Education, Educational Reforms and Social Change, Istanbul, June 1–5.
- The Regional Dimension of the Causes of Conflicts: The Middle East, paper presented at the Seminar on Conflict and Development, March 22–24, The Netherlands Institute of International Relations, The Hague.
- Repercusiones de la pas a’arabe-Israeli in Revista L’spanola de Defensa, April.
- The Structure of The New World Order, in M. Selim (ed.) The New World Order, Cairo, Center for Political Research and Studies, 1994 (in Arabic).

• 1993

- Theoretical Framework of Arab National Security in A. Al-Mashat (ed.) Arab National Security: Dimensions and Requirements, Cairo, Institute of Arab Research and Studies (in Arabic).
- The Impact of the Gulf War on the Concept of National Security, Journal of the Social Sciences, No. 314, Vol. 21, Autumn/Winter (in Arabic).
- Content Analysis of the Social Studies Textbooks, paper presented at the Seminar on: Education and Political Socialization in Egypt, December 16–18 (in Arabic).
- Foreign Policy Priorities of Clinton Administration, paper presented at the conference on, the New American Administration and the Middle East, Cairo University, April 14–15 (in Arabic).
- The International Regional Dimensions of the Oil Crisis, in Mona El-Boradie (ed.) Oil and Development in the Arab World in the 1990s, Cairo, Institute of Arab Research and Studies.

• 1992

- The Concept of Collective Security and the Institutional Aspects of the New World Order, Role and Impact on Japan and the Arab World, paper presented at the Arab-Japanese Dialogue III Amman, September 19–20.
- Arab National Security in Contemporary Stage, Journal of Arab Affairs, June 1992 (in Arabic).
- Education and Politics, Cairo, Dar Suad Al-Sabah, 1992 (in Arabic).

• 1991

- Education and Politics: A Study of the Relationship between two Political Processes, Journal of Social Affairs, No. 32, Winter 1991 (in Arabic).

• 1990

- Political Elite and Political Development, Al-Wahda, Year 6, March 1990 (in Arabic).
- The Origins of Underdevelopment in the Islamic World, World Politics, No. 99, January 1990 (in Arabic).

• 1989

- Contemporary Arab National Security Theory, Cairo (in Arabic).
- Political Development in the UAE, Journal of Social Affairs, September, 1989 (in Arabic).
- Teaching National Security in the Arab Universities, Arab Journal of Political Science, No. 3 and 4, September, 1989 (in Arabic).
- The Intellectual and Organizational Framework of Islamic Solidarity, Arab Journal of International Studies, Year 2, No. 2, 1989 (Washington). (in Arabic).

• 1987

- Political Development in the Third World, Al-Ain Publishing and Distributing Establishment (in Arabic).
- Arab National Security in the 1990s, Journal of Arab Affairs, March 1988 (in Arabic).
- National Security and Human Rights: Integration or Contradiction? Journal of Social Affairs, Winter 1988 (in Arabic).
- Three Chapters titled: The Evolution of the International System after WWII, Foreign Intervention in the Third World, and Arab National Security, in: T. Hassu et al.; Contemporary World Issues and Problems. Al-Ain, Al-Ain Publishing and Distributing Establishment, 1988. (in Arabic).
- The Military and Political Development in the Third World, World Politics, No. 92, April 1988 (in Arabic).
- The Concept of Arab National Security, in A. Hilal (ed.) The Arabs and the World, Beirut, Center for Arab Unity Studies, 1988 (in Arabic).
- Political Socialization in the UAE: Analysis of the Social Studies Books, Journal of Social Affairs, No. 19, Autumn 1988 (in Arabic).
- Thirty Years after the Egyptian-Syrian Unity: Reassessment of its Introductions, Al-Mustakbal Al-Arabi, No. 96, February, 1987 (in Arabic).

• 1986

- A Preliminary Design for the UN Institute for Crime Prevention, Public Security Journal, No. 112, January, 1986, pp. 40–42 (in Arabic).
- The UN and the Concept of Collective Security, World Politics, No. 84, April, 1986, pp. 88–95 (in Arabic).
- The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A View from Cairo in Mohammed Ayoob (ed.) Regional Security in the Third World. Kent: Great Britain, Croom Helm, 1986, pp. 137–151.
- Arab National Security in the 1980s: Threats and Strategies, International Interactions, No. 3, Vol. 12, 1986, pp. 245– 265.
- The Egyptian-Israeli Settlement, Journal of Arab Affairs, Spring 1986.
- The Security Dilemma, Who Gets What from the International System (The Afro-Latin Dialogue), Cairo, 1986.
- The Security Policies of the G.C.C. Members, presented at Symposium on Future Projection of Iran-Iraq War, Cairo, May 1986 (in Arabic).
- The Political Environment and the Egyptian-Arab Interactions in “Income Transfer Between Egypt and Arab World Projection”, Cairo University.

• 1984

- National Security in the Third World, Boulder, Co., Westview Press, USA, 1985.
- Stress and Disintegration in the Arab World: Journal of Arab Affairs, No. 1, Vol. 4, 1985 (in Arabic).
- The African Dimension of Egyptian National Security, Defense Journal, Cairo, January, 1985 (in Arabic).
- Non-Alignment and National Security in the Third World, World Politics, April 1985 (in Arabic).
- The Arab Dimension of Egyptian National Security, Defense Journal, April, 1985 (in Arabic).
- The Security Dimension of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Al-Manar, Paris, 1985 (in Arabic).
- The Strategic Dimensions of Camp David Accords, Al Fikr Al Istratigi Al Arabi, July 1985 (in Arabic).

• 1985

- The Arab World and the Third World in the Next Decade, World Politics, January, 1984, (in Arabic).
- Dimensions of the Study of Egyptian National Security Theory, Defense Journal, October 1984 (in Arabic).
- Toward an Arab Reformulation of National Security Theory, Al-Mustakbal Al-Arabi, No. 54 (in Arabic).
- The Contemporary Crisis of the Arab National Security, in A. Al-Mashat et al. Regional and International Dimensions of the Palestinian Question, Cairo, Dar Al-Mustakbal Al-Arabi (in Arabic).

• 1983

- Egyptian Attitudes Towards the Peace Process: Views of an Alert Elite, The Middle East Journal, Vol. 37, No. 3, Summer 1983.

• 1982

- Egypt and the Challenge of Integration in the Arab World: The Problem of Solution, Al-Mustakbal Al-Arabi, July 1982 (in Arabic).

• 1981

- Contradictions and Skepticism: How Egyptian Students View the Peace Process, International Interactions, Vol. 7, No. 4 (with Professor Edward Azar).

• 1977

- The Palestinian Entity, in “The Palestinians in the World”, Cairo, High Institute for Arab Research and Studies.

• 1970-1977

- Some Articles and Reports in World Politics (in Arabic).

External links

• Gouda, S. (Producer) (2011). Interview with dr. Abdul-monem Al-mashat [Television series episode]. In Red Light. Cairo: Dream TV.