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About Lamis Abdelaaty
Lamis Abdelaaty is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute. Her interests include international relations, human rights and humanitarianism, and asylum and migration. Her book, Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees (Oxford University Press, 2021), asks why countries open their borders to some refugees while blocking others, and why a number of countries have given the United Nations control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory. Abdelaaty holds a doctoral degree in politics from Princeton University.NBN Episodes hosted by Lamis:
May 5, 2024
Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War
Decisions to go to war are often framed in cost-benefit terms, and typically such assessments do not factor in longer term costs. However, recent dram…
April 9, 2024
Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers
Despite expectations that the deeply held political and religious organizing principles at the heart of the Muslim Brotherhood would prove incompatibl…
March 14, 2024
Governing the Displaced
Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism (Cornell UP, 2024) answers a straightforward question: how are refugees governed un…
February 15, 2024
Politics in the Crevices
In Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul (Duke UP, 2023), Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into …
December 7, 2023
Violent Exceptions
Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics (Ohio State UP, 2021) turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril i…
November 16, 2023
Sex Trafficking and Human Rights
Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women a…
November 2, 2023
We, the Data
Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In We…
October 9, 2023
Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics
The idea of “hybrid sovereignty” describes overlapping relations between public and private actors in important areas of global power, such as contrac…
September 28, 2023
Monitors and Meddlers
Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, a…
September 18, 2023
We're Here Because You Were There
What are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? In We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire …
May 8, 2023
Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era
Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era (Oxford UP, 2022) explores the role of digital advocacy organizations, a major new addition to the internati…
April 27, 2023
Humanitarianism and Security
Humanitarianism and Security: Trouble and Hope at the Heart of Africa (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) contends that the search for stability and peace rema…
April 10, 2023
Bargaining in the UN Security Council
Even after seventy-five years, the UN Security Council meets nearly every day. They respond to a range of threats to international peace and security,…
March 6, 2023
Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp
Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains dif…
February 27, 2023
Beyond Piety and Politics
How do ordinary men and women in Muslim-majority societies create religion-informed views of political topics such as democracy and economics? Beyond …
December 12, 2022
Ascending Order
Why do rising powers sometimes challenge an international order that enables their growth, and at other times support an order that constrains them? A…
November 7, 2022
Undesirable Immigrants
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 officially ended the explicit prejudice in American immigration policy that began with the 1790 restrictio…
October 31, 2022
Delegating Responsibility
Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union (U Michigan Press, 2022) explores the politics of migration in…
October 24, 2022
Citizenship in Hard Times
What do citizens do in response to threats to democracy? Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat (Cambridge UP, 20…
October 17, 2022
Global Norms and Local Action
In Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa (Oxford UP, 2020), Peace A. Medie studies the domestic impleme…
October 3, 2022
Marketing Democracy
For nearly two decades, the United States devoted more than $2 billion towards democracy promotion in the Middle East with seemingly little impact. To…
September 26, 2022
Governing Abroad
From Austria to New Zealand, coalition governments often pave the road to foreign policy. In Western Europe, nearly 90 percent of postwar governments …
September 19, 2022
Desertion
Desertion: Trust and Mistrust in Civil Wars (Cornell UP, 2020) examines the personal and political factors behind soldiers' choices to stay in their u…
May 30, 2022
Committed to Rights
International treaties are the primary means for codifying global human rights standards. However, nation-states are able to make their own choices in…