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Frederic Volpi

Senior Lecturer

Room: 142

Office Hours

Tel: 2939

Email: fv6st-andrews.ac.uk

About

Dr Frédéric Volpi (Cantab) held positions at the Universities of Sussex and Bristol before joining St Andrews University in 2005. Between 2004 and 2006 Dr. Volpi was an ESRC award holder for a research project on European responses to North African Islamism. Since 2007 he is the coordinator of the research network sponsored by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies on domination and resistance in the Middle East. Dr Volpi's research focuses on the interaction between Islamism, democratization and civility. He investigated the construction of political Islam in pseudo-democratic contexts in North Africa and its implication for European foreign and multicultural policy. Dr Volpi's latest monograph is an examination of the 'western' social sciences' approaches to political Islam, and their policy implications. He also recently worked on the modes of construction of civility between Islamic and non-Islamic civil society associations in the Middle East. He is currently working on a new book on the causes and significance of regime change in North Africa during the 2011 'Arab Spring'

Teaching

Dr Volpi teaches the following undergraduate modules:

  • Political Islam and International Relations
  • Democracy and Democratization

He also teaches the MLitt module:

  • Global and Transnational Islamism

Books

  • 2011 Political Civility in the Middle East, editor (Routledge)
  • 2010 Political Islam Observed: Disciplinary Perspectives (Columbia University Press and Hurst) amazon
  • 2010 Political Islam: A Critical Reader, editor (Routledge) amazon
  • 2007 Democratization in the Muslim World: Changing Patterns of Authority and Power, editor with F. Cavatorta (Routledge) amazon
  • 2006 Transnational Islam and Regional Security: Cooperation and Diversity between Europe and North Africa, editor (Routledge) amazon
  • 2003 Islam and Democracy: The Failure of Dialogue in Algeria (Pluto Press) amazon

Articles

  • 2011 ‘Framing Civility in the Middle East: Alternative Perspectives on the State and Civil Society’, Third World Quarterly 32 (5), pp.827-843
  • 2010 ‘Normative and Technical Power at the EU-Moroccan Interface: The Islamization of the North as a Response to the Democratization of the South’, European Foreign Affairs Review 15 (5), pp.681-696
  • 2010 ‘Framing Islamism: Understanding the Dynamics of Globalized Violence and Politics’ International Studies Review 12 (2), pp.430-436
  • 2009 ‘Political Islam in the Mediterranean: The View from Democratization Studies’, Democratization 16 (1), pp.49-76
  • 2007 ‘The European transnational Islamic nexus: The North-African 'umma' between exit, voice, loyalty’, Government and Opposition, 42 (3), pp.451-470,
  • 2007 ‘Making Islamic Authority Matter’ (with B.S. Turner), Theory, Culture and Society 24 (2), pp.1-19
  • 2006 ‘Forgetting democratization? Recasting power and authority in a plural Muslim world’ (with F. Cavatorta), Democratization 13 (3), pp. 363-372
  • 2006 ‘Algeria’s Pseudo-democratic Politics: Lessons for Democratization in the Middle East’, Democratization 13 (3), pp.442-455
  • 2006 ‘Strategies for Regional Cooperation in the Mediterranean: Rethinking the Parameters of the Debate’, Mediterranean Politics 11 (2), pp.119-135
  • 2004 ‘Regional Community Building and the Transformation of International Relations: The Case of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership’, Mediterranean Politics 9 (2), pp.145-164.
  • 2004 ‘Pseudo-Democracy in the Muslim world’, Third World Quarterly 25 (6), pp.1061-1078.

Book Chapters

  • 2011 ‘Pathways of Islamist Mobilisation against the State in the Middle East and Central Asia’ in S. Cummings and R. Hinnebusch (eds.) Sovereignty after Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
  • 2009 ‘L’Islam, la nation et la politique : le passé de bien plus d’une illusion’, in N. Kessous, C. Margerrison, A. Stafford and G. Dugas (eds.), Algérie: Vers le cinquantenaire de l’Indépendance. Paris: L’Harmattan
  • 2007 ‘Forgetting democratization? Recasting Power and Authority in a Plural Muslim World’ (with F. Cavatorta), in F. Volpi and F. Cavatorta (eds.), Democratization in the Muslim World: Changing Patterns of Authority and Power. New York and London: Routledge
  • 2006 ‘The Algerian Islamic Revolt’, in J. Defronzo (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Modern Revolutions, Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO
  • 2004 ‘Liberalisation and Securitisation: Irreconcilable Objectives in the Post 9/11 Order?’ in J. Kalpakian, D. Kaissi and A. Rami (eds.), Africa After 9/11: Strategies for Engagement and Co-operation, Ifrane: Al-Akhawayn University Press
  • 2003 ‘Democratisation and its Enemies: The Algerian Transition to Authoritarianism’’, in R. Luckham and G. Cawthra (eds.), Governing Insecurity, London: Zed Books

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