Stephen Zunes has been at USF since 1995, teaching courses on
the politics of Middle East and other regions, nonviolence,
conflict resolution, U.S. foreign policy, and globalization for the
Politics department, the International Studies major, and the Peace
& Justice Studies minor, as well as the Middle Eastern Studies
minor, for which he serves as program director. He received his
B.A. from Oberlin College, his M.A. from Temple University, and his
Ph.D. from Cornell University. Prior to coming to USF, Dr. Zunes
served on the faculty at Ithaca College, Whitman College and the
University of Puget Sound. Professor Zunes serves as a writer and
senior analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus, an associate editor for
Peace Review, and the chair of the academic advisory committee for
the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
A prominent specialist on U.S. Middle East policy, Professor Zunes
has presented numerous lectures and conference papers in the United
States and over a dozen foreign countries. He has traveled
frequently to the Middle East and other conflict regions, meeting
with prominent government officials, scholars and dissidents. He
has served as a political analyst for local, national, and
international radio and television and as a columnist for the
National Catholic Reporter, Huffington Post, Truthout, Alternet and
Common Dreams. He has published scores of articles in academic
journals, anthologies, magazines, and newspaper op-ed pages on such
topics as U.S. foreign policy, Middle Eastern politics, Latin
American politics, African politics, human rights, arms control,
social movements and nonviolent action. He is the co-editor of
Nonviolent Social Movements (Blackwell, 1999) and Consistently
Opposing Killing (Praeger, 2008), the author of Tinderbox: U.S.
Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage,
2003) and the co-author (along with Jacoby Mundy) of Western
Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict, Irresolution Syracuse
University Press, 2010).
For more biographical information and to access a variety of
Professor Zunes' publications, please visit
http://www.stephenzunes.org/
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