Faculty

Email Address

salam.alsaadi@mail.utoronto.ca

Education

  • B.A., York University
  • M.A., University of Toronto
  • Ph.D. in progress, University of Toronto

Salam Alsaadi

Course Instructor

Biography

Salam Alsaadi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and a recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada doctoral scholarship (2020-2023), and the 2020 Canada Graduate Scholarship to Honour Nelson Mandela. His research focuses on authoritarian politics and democratization, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa. In his dissertation, Salam examines the survival of minority-dominated autocracies, utilizing a mixed-methods approach
Publications
– Salam Alsaadi. “International Competitive Involvement During Democratic Transitions and State Repression.” Comparative Politics. (Forthcoming).
– Salam Alsaadi. “Russia’s Military Involvement in Syria: An Integrated Realist and Constructivist Approach”. The International Journal of Law, Humanities & Social Science”. October, 2017. Volume 1 – Issue 5.

Research Interests
Authoritarian regimes, repression, military coups, democratization, civil wars and revolutions, protests, Middle East and North Africa.