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Marwan Kabalan
Dr Marwan J. Kabalan is the director of political studies at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) in Doha, Qatar. He is also head of the Diplomatic Studies Program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Dr Kabalan chairs the Gulf Studies Forum (GSF) and is a board member of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. Kabalan served as dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Kalamoon University in Damascus, Syria. He taught international political theory at the University of Manchester, UK and at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Damascus University. He was a member of the board of directors at the Damascus University Center for Strategic Studies and Research. Kabalan’s research interests include theory of international politics and foreign and security policy in the Middle East. Select publications include Qatar Foreign Policy: Strategy Versus Geography (2021) and Syrian Foreign Policy and the United States, from Bush to Obama (ed.) (2009) and Turkey-Syria Relations: Between Enmity and Amity (ed.) (2013).