Dr Lise Storm
BA, MA (Copenhagen), PHD (Exeter)
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Telephone: 01392 725255
Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics
My research agenda over the past few years has been heavily dominated by North African politics. In 2007, I published a monograph Democratization in Morocco, which analyzed the struggles for power within the political elite in the era following independence from France in 1956. During the academic years 2007-8 and 2008-9, I held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in Comparative Politics, which focused on party system institutionalization in the Maghreb, and its impact on the prospects for democracy in the countries of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. This research was further strengthened by my participation in a collaborative grant awarded by the ESRC to a group of Exeter academics, as this award enabled me to explore the relationship between political parties, party systems, and Islamic radicalization in the Maghreb. The research carried out for both projects has resulted in a series of journal articles (see publications), and I am currently in the process of finalizing a monograph manuscript on the prospects for democracy in the Maghreb following the Arab Spring. Once the monograph manuscript has been completed, the intention is to continue my research on party system institutionalization and democratization, but expanding to include additional cases, particularly Egypt and Turkey. Finally, I will also be undertaking some research on Latin America as one of my core objectives is to do some comparative work on the region and the Middle East.
