Prof. Tim Nimblock

Prof. Tim Nimblock, an eminent scholar of international relations and Vice-President, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, has been nominated to the K.P.S. Menon Chair for Diplomatic Studies, School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University for the academic year 2010-11. Prof. Tim was the second Visiting Scholar and Honorary Professor of the KPS Menon Chair. Currently, he is Emeritus Professor and Chair, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK.

Research interests of Prof. Niblock cover a wide range of areas related to the politics, economics and international relations of the Arab and Islamic worlds, the political economy of Arab and Islamic states, with particular reference to Sudan, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia and the smaller Arab states of the Gulf. Specific attention is focused on the social and political effects of economic liberalisation in these states.