Paul Kingston

Paul Kingston

First Name: 
Paul
Last Name: 
Kingston
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Professor
Phone : 
416-287-7305
Office Location : 
HL 424
Biography : 

Kingston's research interest include state formation and development, historical institutionalism and the political economy of the Middle East. He has a recent book entitled Reproducing Sectarianism: Advocacy Networks and the Politics of Civil Society in Postwar Lebanon (SUNY, 2013). Other selected publications include “Minorities, Civil Society, and the State in the Contemporary Middle East: A Framework for Analysis” in Routledge Handbook on Minorities in the Middle East, ed. Paul Rowe, forthcoming; “Challenging the Gatekeepers: Disability Rights Advocacy and the Struggle for Self-Representation within Lebanon’s Postwar Sectarian Democracy”, in (eds.) Bettina von Lieres and Lawrence Piper, Mediating States and Citizens: Representing the Marginalised in the Global South, New York: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2015; and “The Pitfalls of Peace-Building “From Below”: Governance Promotion and Local Political Processes in Post-Conflict Lebanon” in International Journal, Spring 2012, 67, 2, p. 333-350; “

Education: 
MESc, University of Toronto
MA, University of London
MPhil, University of Oxford
DPhil, University of Oxford

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  • Illusions of Opportunity: Associational Networks, and the Politics of Advocacy in Postwar
  • The Anti-Poltics of Peacebuilding: Civil Society and Governance Promotion in Postwar Lebanon
  • Religious ‘Centres’ and Religious ‘Edges’: Conceptualising Islamic Violence in Contemporary Egypt
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UTSC Department of Political Science: 
https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/polisci/paul-kingston

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