ANDREW LEBER

I am an Assistant Professor at Tulane University, with appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Middle East & North African (MENA) Studies program at Tulane University. I am also a Nonresident Scholar at the Middle East Program within the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

​

My research covers policymaking and media dynamics within non-democracies, with a geographic focus on the MENA region and the Arab Gulf monarchies especially. I utilize archival evidence, interviews, public-opinion polling, and cross-national data to study how leaders within these countries make foreign and domestic policy decisions, and how citizens in these countries both react to and influence these decisions. I also study the drivers of U.S. foreign policy decisions towards the MENA region.

​

My work has been supported along the way by the National Science Foundation, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University's Center for Middle East Studies, the Harvard Kennedy School's Evidence for Policy Design Program, the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, the Office of the Provost at Tulane University, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the ByWater Institute.