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Al-Kassimi Khaled

Contract and Sessional Faculty Department of Political Science

Education

Ph.D., McMaster University (2016-2020)

M.A., McMaster University (2015-2016)

B.A. (Hons), University of Toronto (2009-2013)

Research

Books

— "Jus Gentium & the Arab as Muselmänner: the 'Islamist Winter' is the Pre-emptive (Creative) Chaos of the 'Arab Spring' Multiplying Necropolises" (Forthcoming)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

—  "Sanctioning Arabia through the Caesar Act: Economic Violence and Imperial Anxieties in the Middle East", Asian Institute of Research, Journal of Political and Social Sciences, pp. 789-799, (2020)

      Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3674773

—  “The Logic of Resilience as Neoliberal Governmentality Informing Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey – is Cuban Resilience Strategy (CRS) an Alternative?” Centre for International Policy Studies’ (CIPS), Potentia Journal, pp.8-35, (2019)

      Link: https://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ottawa/index.php/potentia/article/view/4509

— “Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS): (State) (Sponsored) Terrorism Identified in the (Militarized) Pedagogy of (U.S.) Law Enforcement Agencies” in Cogent Social Science Journal, pp. 1-27, (2019)

      Link https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2019.1586813

— “ALBA: A Decolonial Delinking Performance Towards (Western) Modernity – An alternative to development Project” in Cogent Social Science Journal, pp. 1-35, (2018)

     Link https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/23311886.2018.1546418?scroll=top&needAccess=true

— “U.S. Informal Empire and AFRICOM: Securitising Africa Using Exceptional Speech Acts to Protect America's Economic-Frontier” in African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, pp. 301-316, (2017) 

     Link https://academicjournals.org/journal/AJPSIR/article-abstract/B7E109666514

— “The Obsolescence of the Westphalian Model and the Return to a Maximum State Of Exception” - M.A thesis, Supervised by Nyers, P.,  McMaster University Library Press, pp.1-71 (2016) 

     Link https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375/18673

Secondary News Article Publication

2019- September         Arab League: Burying the Hatchet With Syria https://sputniknews.com/radio_trendstorm/201901121071405403-arab-league-burying-the-hatchet-with-syria/

2018- September         S-300s in Syria: A New Line in the Sand https://sputniknews.com/radio_trendstorm/201809291068421594-s-300-syria-russia-israel/

2018- August               MESA: Trump's Arab NATO https://sputniknews.com/radio_trendstorm/201808041066889182-mesa-trump-arab-nato/

2018- August               The Israeli Buffer Zone On Syrian Territory Will Have To Wait https://orientalreview.org/2018/08/04/the-israeli-buffer-zone-on-the-syrian-territory-will-have-to-wait/

2018 – May                 Syria: The Drama in Daraa https://sputniknews.com/radio_trendstorm/201806301065894641-syria-daraa-deescalation-zone/