Michael C. Hudson directs the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore, and is honorary professor in the Department of Political Science. He is Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University, where he was Professor of International Relations since 1979 and the Seif Ghobash Professor of Arab Studies since 1980. He directed the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown intermittently from 1979 to 2010.

Research Interests & Academic Specialization
Comparative Politics; International Politics; Politics of the Developing Areas; Development Theory; Information Technology, Ethnosectarian Conflict; Democratization and Liberalization; U.S. Foreign Policy; Middle East Politics; Lebanon; the Palestinians; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Security; Telecomputing Applications in Teaching Middle East Politics

Education
Yale University, 1964, Ph.D. in Political Science
Princeton University, 1961, Certificate in Arabic
Yale University, 1960, M.A. in Political Science
Swarthmore College, 1959, B.A. (honors)

Contact Information
Email Address: meidir@nus.edu.sg
Telephone: +65-6516 2380
Institute Website: www.mei.nus.edu.sg

The header image on this site depicts Yaffa Port. Photograph by Anny Gaul.