Author
Peter Mandaville
Professor of international affairs at George Mason University
Peter Mandaville is professor of international affairs at George Mason University and has twice served at the US State Department, on the policy planning staff and as senior adviser on religion and global affairs. That combination gives his academic work an unusual grounding in how policy actually gets made.
Global Political Islam is a standard text on Islamist movements, treating them as varied political actors responding to local conditions rather than as a single phenomenon.
