Andrew Flibbert is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science.  He teaches and writes about international security and American foreign policy, with a regional specialization in the Middle East and North Africa.  His research has addressed the Iraq war, WMD proliferation, human rights in the Middle East, and the political economy of cultural production.  He has published articles in Security Studies, Middle East Journal, Political Science Quarterly, and PS: Politics and Political Science, and he is the author of Commerce in Culture: States and Markets in the World Film Trade.  His current book project uses new theoretical work in international relations to explain American involvement in Iraq.

Before coming to Trinity, Prof. Flibbert taught at Connecticut and Williams Colleges, as well as at Columbia, NYU, and Brown.  A former Fulbright and CASA Fellow, he worked from 1988 to 1991 for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, and Africa Bureau.  With a strong interest in active learning and innovative pedagogy, Prof. Flibbert challenges his students with assignments like the writing of peace agreements and the staging of debates and simulations.  He encourages risk-taking and argument in the classroom while cultivating a comfortable environment for all points of view.