Andrew Flibbert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science.  A Middle East regional specialist, he teaches international relations and comparative politics, and he writes primarily about international security and foreign policy.  He is the author of Iraq: Power, Institutions, and Identities (2023), and his research has addressed the Iraq war, state failure, WMD proliferation, civilian suffering, and human rights in the Middle East.  He has written for H-Diplo, contributed to edited volumes, and published articles in Political Science Quarterly, Middle East Policy, Security Studies, Middle East Journal, and PS: Politics and Political Science.

His early work addressed the political economy of cultural production, and he is the author of Commerce in Culture: States and Markets in the World Film Trade, as well as a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies.   A former Fulbright fellow at Egypt’s Higher Institute of Cinema and a CASA fellow in Arabic, he has lived and traveled widely in the Middle East and North Africa.  His career began with the U.S. Department of State.

Prof. Flibbert teaches students to use theoretical insights from the social sciences to explain and understand the political world.  He encourages open conversation, thoughtful listening, and risk-taking in the classroom, while cultivating a welcoming environment for all points of view.

curriculum vitae

Books

• Flibbert, Andrew. Iraq: Power, Institutions, and Identities. New York: Routledge, 2023.
• Flibbert, Andrew. Commerce in Culture: States and Markets in the World Film Trade. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Flibbert, Andrew. “The Consequences of Forced State Failure in Iraq.” Political Science Quarterly 128, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 67-95.  Featured under Editor's Spotlight: Iraqi Sectarian Violence at http://www.psqonline.org
• Flibbert, Andrew. “The Arab World: Grappling with Multiple Consequences.” In Assessing the War on Terror, edited by Mohammed Ayoob and Etga Ugur (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013).
• Flibbert, Andrew. “Ideas and Entrepreneurs: A Constructivist Explanation of the Iraq War.” In Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? edited by Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall (New York: Routledge, 2011).
• Flibbert, Andrew. “The Gaza War: Instrumental Civilian Suffering?” Middle East Policy 18, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 54-77.  Also http://www.mepc.org/journal/middle-east-policy-archives/gaza-war-instrumental-civilian-suffering
• Flibbert, Andrew. “The Globalization of Filmmaking in Latin America and the Middle East.” In The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies, edited by Robert Kolker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) and Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford, 2012. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195175967.013.0018
• Flibbert, Andrew. “The Road to Baghdad: Ideas and Intellectuals in Explanations of the Iraq War.” Security Studies 15, no. 2 (April - June 2006): 310-352.
• Flibbert, Andrew, and Sonia Cardenas. “National Human Rights Institutions in the Middle East.” Middle East Journal 59, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 411-436.
• Flibbert, Andrew. “State and Cinema in Pre-Revolutionary Egypt, 1927-52.” In Re-Envisioning Egypt, 1919-1952, edited by Arthur Goldschmidt, Amy J. Johnson, and Barak A. Salmoni (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2005).
• Flibbert, Andrew. “After Saddam: Regional Insecurity, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Proliferation Pressures in Postwar Iraq.” Political Science Quarterly 118, no. 4 (Winter 2003-04): 547-567. Reprinted in American Hegemony: Preventive War, Iraq, and Imposing Democracy, edited by Demetrios James Caraley (New York: Academy of Political Science, 2004); and Terrorist Attacks and Nuclear Proliferation: Strategies for Overlapping Dangers, edited by Demetrios James Caraley and Loren Morales Kando (New York: Academy of Political Science, 2007).
• Flibbert, Andrew. “The Art of the ‘Impossible’: Writing Peace Agreements During War.” PS: Political Science and Politics XXXVI, no. 4 (October 2003): 765-768.  Also http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/PSOct03Flibbert.pdf

• Summit Award, “Best Lecturer,” Student Government Association, Trinity College, May 2007.

• Faculty Seminar on Global Security, U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C., July 2006.
• Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 2000-2001.
• President’s Fellow, Columbia University, 1998-2000.
• Fulbright/ I.I.E. Fellow, Cairo University and Higher Cinema Institute, Egypt, 1997-1998.
• Ford Foundation, Summer Research Grant in Mexico City, Columbia University, 1996.
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Grants: Arabic (1994-1995); Spanish (1996), Columbia University.
• Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) Fellow, American University in Cairo, 1992-1993.
• Governor’s, Du Pont, and Mobil Fellowships, University of Virginia, 1990-1992.