Master Peace: On War by Other Means in Western Asia (Middle East)

Short biography

Nikolas Kosmatopoulos is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies. He is the co-founder of the research networks "FLOATS" (Floating Laboratory of Action and Theory at

Sea) the research collective "Decolonize Hellas” and founding director of the Critical Ecologies Lab in the Mediterranean East (AUB). He researches and teaches global politics and political anthropology, international political economy (esp. in the oceans), with a particular interest in the Mediterranean East and the Global South. His recent book "Master Peace: Lebanon's Violence and the Politics of Expertise"

(University of Pennsylvania Press 2024) examines the politics of expertise in the application of metropolitan theories of violence and practices of peacemaking in post–civil war Lebanon. His  research has been published in leading peer review journals such as Public Culture,

Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Social Analysis, Social Anthropology, Peacebuilding, Third World Quarterly, South Atlantic Quarterly, Comparative Studies of Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Environment and Planning D: Society and Place, Antipode: A Radical Journal for Geography, among others. He is currently writing a book on maritime insurgencies.