Mohammed Ayoob

Mohammed Ayoob is a University Distinguished Professor of International Relations, Michigan State University, and Adjunct Scholar, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. He is also the author of The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World (University of Michigan Press, 2008)

Turkey’s interim passage to anarchy

The current mayhem, if it continues, is likely to once again tempt the military top brass to stage a coup and take power in the name of restoring order as it has done several times earlier.

By Mohammed Ayoob

/ 22 Oct 2015

Implications of the preliminary Iranian nuclear deal

Recognition has dawned that the potential pre-eminent state in the region, Iran, and the globally pre-eminent state, the United States, need each other.

By Mohammed Ayoob

/ 4 Apr 2015

Endgame: the United States and Iran

What stands in the way of Iran and the US cooperating openly to meet twin threats of Sunni extremism and state failure is any failure to resolve the nuclear deadlock.

By Mohammed Ayoob

/ 22 Nov 2014

Palestine, Israel, and the United States: Reframing the dominant narrative

It is time that this Palestinian narrative is given equal weight with the Israeli narrative in the American consciousness, especially the consciousness of American policy makers engaged in finding a resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and in protecting and enhancing American interests in t

By Mohammed Ayoob

/ 11 Jul 2011

What Iran must learn from Turkey

What the Iranian elite needs to learn from Turkey is how to rescue Islam from the state

By Mohammed Ayoob

/ 29 Jun 2011