Dr. Anne Marie Baylouny
Associate Professor
1411 Cunningham Rd, GL-393, Monterey, CA 93943
Biography
Anne Marie Baylouny is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the
Naval Postgraduate School.
Her book,
Privatizing Welfare in the Middle East: Kin Mutual Aid Associations in Jordan
and Lebanon
(Indiana University Press, 2010), analyzes institutional creation and grassroots
organizing resulting from new economic policies, including their effects on the
political sphere. Baylouny’s current projects include Hizbullah's media and the
influence of constituencies in Hizbullah, and the relationship between
protesters and the military. She focuses on grassroots influence in
organizations and social movements.
Research Interests
Protest, Islamism, and the influence of constituencies; Framing and
emotions in mobilizing; Military change and decision-making vis-à-vis
protesters; Middle East and North Africa; Social
movements
Recent articles include:
§ "Hizbollah’s Women: Internal Transformation in a Social Movement and Militia," chapter in Social Movements, Mobilization and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa, eds. Joel Beinin and Frédéric Vairel, 163-180. Stanford University Press, 2011.
§ "Authority Outside the State: Non-State Actors and New Institutions in the Middle East." In Ungoverned Spaces? Alternatives to State Authority in an Era of Softened Sovereignty, edited by Anne L. Clunan and Harold Trinkunas, 136-52. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
§ "Not Your Father's Islamist TV: Changing Programming on Hizbullah's al-Manar," Arab Media & Society (Issue 9, Fall 2009). http://www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=728
§ “Building a National Army in Multi-Ethnic Societies: The Case of Post-Civil War Lebanon,” Thomas Bruneau and Cristiana Matei eds., Handbook on Civil-Military Relations, Routledge, forthcoming.
Anne Marie Baylouny received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards—Fulbright, the Social Science Research Council, and the Mellon Foundation, among others. Before entering academia, she was spokesperson on discrimination and human rights for a national Arab American organization. Baylouny travels extensively in the Arab East, living in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan for long periods. She speaks Arabic, classical and Levantine dialects, Italian, French, and some Spanish.
Classes
Refugees and Diasporas: Conflict, Repatriation, and Assimilation (NS 4300)
Social Mobilization and Conflict in the Middle East (NS 4326)
Politics and Security in the Levant (NS 3361)
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