Sean Yom is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University and Senior Fellow in the Middle East Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is a specialist on regimes and governance in the Middle East, especially in Arab monarchies like Jordan, Kuwait and Morocco. His research engages topics of authoritarian politics, democratic reforms, institutional stability and economic development in these countries, as well as their implications for U.S. foreign policy.
He is the author of From Resilience to Revolution: How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2016) and most recently co-edited The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research since the Arab Uprisings, with Marc Lynch and Jillian Schwedler (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022). He has contributed to many academic journals, including Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of International Relations, Studies in Comparative International Development and the Journal of Democracy, and written widely for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and The Washington Post's Monkey Cage, among other outlets.
He also advises country-level work with international NGOs, law firms and sovereign clients. Yom holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University and an A.B. in Political Science from Brown University.
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