2006 Campagna-Kerven Lecture Series

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Speaker Bio - GRAHAM E. FULLER

Graham Fuller delivered a nuanced, engaging and comprehensive talk on Turkey in the Middle East. You may also wish to look at his timely OPED in the International Herald Tribune on April 15, 2006.

Graham E. Fuller is currently an independent writer, analyst, lecturer and consultant on Muslim World affairs and Adjunct Professor of History at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

He received his BA and MA at Harvard University in Russian and Middle Eastern studies. He served 20 years in the Foreign Service, mostly the Muslim World, working in Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, North Yemen, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong. In 1982 he was appointed the National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia at CIA, and in 1986 Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council at CIA, with overall responsibility for all national level strategic forecasting.

In 1988 Mr. Fuller left government and joined the RAND Corporation where he was a Senior Political Scientist for 12 years. His research focused primarily on the Middle East, Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and problems of ethnicity and religion In politics. His studies for RAND include a provocative 1991 study on the geopolitical implications of the Palestinian “Intifada”; a series of studies on Islamic fundamentalism in Turkey, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Algeria; the survivability of Iraq; the “New Geopolitics of Central Asia” after the fall of the USSR; and problems of democratization and Islam. He is author of the following books:

  • The Center of the Universe: the Geopolitics of Iran , Westview, 1991;
  • The Democracy Trap: Perils of the Post-Cold War World, Dutton, 1992;
  • The New Foreign Policy of Turkey: From the Balkans to Western China , (with Ian Lesser), Westview, 1993;
  • A Sense of Siege: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West , (with Ian Lesser), Westview, 1994;
  • Turkey ’s Kurdish Question (with Henri Barkey), Rowman and Littlefield, 1997;
  • The Arab Shi’a: the Forgotten Muslims (with Rend Francke), St. Martin’s, 1999;
  • The Future of Political Islam , (Palgrave, May 2003).

Published articles include:

  • Foreign Affairs : “Moscow and the Gulf War,” Summer 1991; “The Fate of the Kurds,” Spring 1993; “Persian Gulf Myths,” May 1997, “Russia’s Ruinous Chechen War,” Foreign Affairs, March-April 2000;and "The Future of Political Islam," March 2002.
  • Foreign Policy : "The Next Ideology," 1994.
  • The National Interest , “The Breaking of Nations,” Winter 1991/92;
  • World Policy Journal , “Redrawing the World’s Borders,”Spring 1997;

Many other articles appeared in Orbis, Current History, Middle East Insight, The Middle East Journal, Mediterranean Quarterly,. Mr. Fuller is a regular op-ed contributor to The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor. He has appeared frequently on ABC’s “Nightline,” ABC Evening News, CNN, PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and Fox Television News; and comments regularly for BBC radio, Voice of America and other news stations. He has an extensive knowledge of foreign languages including Russian, Turkish, Arabic, and Chinese, and is the author of the popular book How to Learn a Foreign Language.

2006 was the tenth anniversary of the lecture.

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