Senior Non-Resident Fellow – Université Grenoble-Alpes

Daniel Meier

Daniel Meier received his PhD in political science from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and his Habilitation (HDR) in political science from the Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA. He recently won a Junior-Professor Chair at Sciences Po Grenoble leading a research program on the Geopolitics of Borders in the Middle East. Since 2001, he conducted extensive fieldwork research in Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus and Iraq. Member of the Association of Borderland Studies, “regional editor” for the Journal of Borderlands Studies, his scientific interest focuses on identity and spatial issues, with a special dedication for border conflicts and borderland issues in the Middle East. His last monograph (in English) titled Shaping Lebanon’s Borderlands: Armed Resistance and International Intervention in South Lebanon (IB Tauris, 2016). He is also the editor of In-between border spaces in the Levant (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor with Rosita Di Peri of Mediterranean in (dis)order: Space, Power and Identity (Michigan U Press, 2023).

Daniel Meier