Promoting Insecurity: Western policy and the degradation of the state-society relationship in the Middle East and North Africa

The School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University presents this free public lecture with Dr. Hugh Roberts, the 2015-16 Simons Visiting Chair in Dialogue on International Law and Human Security.

Promoting Insecurity: Western policy and the degradation
of the state-society relationship in the Middle East and North Africa

September 24, 2015
6:00pm
Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre Campus, Room 1400
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

This event is free and open to the public but reservations are required.  Click here for more information and to register.

Dr. Hugh Roberts is the Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History at Tufts University in Massachusetts.  He previously held the position of Director of the North Africa Project of the International Crisis Group.  He is the author of The Battlefield: Algerial 1988-2002, Studies in a Broken Policy (Verso, 2003), Berber Government: the Kabyle polity in pre-colonial Algeria (I.B. Tauris, 2014), and Algérie-Kabylie: Études et Interventions (Éditions Barzakh, 2014).

The Simons Foundation endowed the SFU School for International Studies Visiting Chair in Dialogue on International Law and Human Security in 2009 to help raise public profile and debate on key international issues.