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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

William B. Quandt is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences and the arts and humanities, with particular engagement in history, sociology and political science, and political science and international relations.

Their work broadly covers topics such as historical and contemporary political dynamics, conflicts in the Middle East and Rwanda, Jewish and Middle Eastern studies, intelligence, security, and war strategy, as well as historical geopolitical and social dynamics.

Quandt has contributed to several academic publications. Their recent papers include:

  • Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s (2021, Journal of Cold War Studies)
  • Issue Information (2021, Middle East Policy)
  • A Lost Peace: Great Power Politics and the Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1967-1979 by Galen Jackson (2023, Journal of Cold War Studies)

Frequent publication venues for Quandt's research include the Journal of Cold War Studies and Middle East Policy.

Co-authors who have collaborated with Quandt include Anne Joyce, Veronica Lademan, Graham E. Fuller, Simon Fraser, and Ian S. Lustick.

William B. Quandt was awarded the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

Best Publications

  • The Arab world : society, culture, and state

    William B. Quandt;Halim Barakat

  • The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System

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  • Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World

    William B. Quandt;Rex Brynen;Bahgat Korany;Paul Noble

  • The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development

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  • Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967

    William B. Quandt

  • The Failure of Political Islam

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  • The Gulf Conflict, 1990-1991 : diplomacy and war in the new world order

    Lawrence Freedman;Efraim Karsh

  • War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan

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  • Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World

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  • Jordan's Inter-Arab Relations: The Political Economy of Alliance Making

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  • The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years

    Bernard Lewis

  • Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics

    William B. Quandt;Ann Elizabeth Mayer

  • The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel

    William B. Quandt;Nachman Ben-Yehuda

  • Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics

    William B. Quandt

  • Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World

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  • Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel

    William B. Quandt;Yaron Ezrahi

  • Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad

    William B. Quandt;Ziad Abu-Amr

  • Civil Society in the Middle East, Vol. 1

    William B. Quandt;Augustus Richard Norton

  • Between Ballots and Bullets: Algeria's Transition from Authoritarianism

    William B. Quandt

  • Parliamentary politics in revolutionary Iran : the institutionalization of factional politics

    William B. Quandt;Bahman Baktiari

  • Islams and Modernities

    William B. Quandt;Aziz Al-Azmeh

  • The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy

    William B. Quandt;Daniel Pipes

  • Saudi Arabia in the 1980s: Foreign Policy, Security, and Oil

    William B. Quandt

  • The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization

    William B. Quandt;Marshall G. S. Hodgson

  • The comparative study of political elites

    William B. Quandt

  • Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939

    William B. Quandt;Albert Habib Hourani

  • The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global

    William B. Quandt

  • The Politics of Palestinian Nationalism

    Ibrahim Abu-Lughod;William Quandt;F. Jabber;Ann Mosely Lesch

  • Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics

    John C. Campbell;William B. Quandt

  • Decade of Decisions: American Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1967-1976

    John C. Campbell;William B. Quandt

  • The Iranians: Persia, Islam, and the Soul of a Nation

    William B. Quandt;Sandra Mackey

  • Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought

    William B. Quandt;Daniel Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Campbell
John C. Campbell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bernard Lewis
Bernard Lewis Princeton University
Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer BlackRock (United States)
Fred Halliday
Fred Halliday London School of Economics and Political Science
Mark Tessler
Mark Tessler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ian S. Lustick
Ian S. Lustick University of Pennsylvania
L. Carl Brown
L. Carl Brown Princeton University

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