Dr. Imad Salamey is a senior Middle East policy advisor and associate professor of political science and international affairs at LAU. He serves as a monitoring and evaluation consultant for various international and regional organizations on issues related to development, humanitarian and political assistance.

Dr. Salamey is the author of The Decline of Nation-States after the Arab Spring: the Rise of Communitocracy (Routledge, 2017), The Government and Politics of Lebanon (Peter Lang, 2021), co-editor of Post-Conflict Power-Sharing Agreements: Options for Syria (Palgrave, 2018) and editor of The Communitarian Nation-State Paradox in Lebanon (Nova Science Publishers, 2021)

Research Interests

Dr. Salamey’s research examines Middle East and North African topics of political economy, communitarian politics, conflict resolution, power sharing and governance.

SDGs Research Mapping

Dr. Imad Salamey conducts research relevant to the following SDGs:

Selected Publications

• Salamey, Imad. “The Unmelting Lebanese National Pot,” Canopy Forum, 2022.
• Salamey, Imad. “Democracy and Development in the Middle East,” In: G. Crawford & A. Abdulai, eds. Research Handbook on Democracy and Development, 2021, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 250-262.
• Salamey, Imad. “Hezbollah, Communitarianism, and Anti-Imperialism,” The Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, 2020, 2 eds. Cope, Zak and Ness, Immanuel. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Salamey, Imad. “Mitigating MENA communitarian conflicts through power-sharing options,” Orient, 2019, 60(2): 43-50.
• Salamey, Imad. “The Double Movement & Post-Arab Spring Consociationalism,” The Muslim World, 2016, 105(3):187-203.
• Salamey, Imad. “Post-Arab Spring: changes and challenges,” Third World Quarterly, 2015, 36(1): 111-129.
• Salamey, Imad and Tabar, Paul. “Democratic transition and sectarian populism,” Contemporary Arab Affairs, 2012, 5(4): 37-41.
• Salamey, Imad and Pearson, Frederic. “The Collapse of Middle Eastern Authoritarianism: breaking the barriers of fear and power,” Third World Quarterly, 2012, 33(5): 931-948.
• Salamey, Imad and Othman, Zanoubia. “Shia Revival and Welayat Al-Faqih in the Making of Iranian Foreign Policy,” Politics, Religion & Ideology, 2011, 12(2): 197 – 212.
• Salamey, Imad and Copeland, Gary. “How exceptional are Islamists? Comparing support for Hezbollah and the Lebanese Forces,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 2011, 13(2): 157 - 175.
• Salamey, Imad. “Failing Consociationalism in Lebanon & Integrative Options,” International Journal of Peace Studies, 2009, 14(2): 83 - 105.
• Salamey, Imad. “Middle Eastern Exceptionalism: Globalization and the Balance of Power”, Journal of Democracy and Security, 2009, 5(3): 249 - 260.
• Salamey, Imad and Payne, Rhys. “Parliamentary Consociationalism in Lebanon:  Equal Citizenry vs. Quotated Confessionalism”, Journal of Legislative Studies, 2008, 14(4): 451-473.
• Salamey, Imad and Tabar, Paul. “Consociational Democracy and Urban Sustainability:  Bridging the Confessional Divides in Beirut”, Journal of Ethnopolitics, 2008, 7(2): 239-263.
• Salamey, Imad and Pearson, Frederic. “Hezbollah: A Proletarian Party with an Islamic Manifesto - A Sociopolitical Analysis of Islamist Populism in Lebanon and the Middle East”, Journal of Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2007, 18(3): 416-438.

Academic Degrees

• PhD in Political Science, 2003, Wayne State University, USA.