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Dr. Karim Kniou is an Associate Professor in the field of International Political Economy at the Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He holds the position of academic coordinator for the Erasmus Mundus Master’s program in Public Policy (Mundus MAPP). Dr. Kniou’s research interests are centered on political economy governance with a particular emphasis on regionalism, trade, varieties of capitalism, institutional analysis, and crisis management. He specifically investigates the dynamics of EU democracy promotion programs and Lebanese politics. His academic contributions include publications in several peer-reviewed journals, as well as books focusing on themes related to neoliberalism and economic pedagogy. Dr. Kniou teaches several courses related to governance and development, exploring the intersections between crisis dynamics and theoretical perspectives in political economy. He is also engaged in supervising PhD students in topics ranging from gas extraction in the Mediterranean basin to new institutional analyses of public policy and critical realism.
Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam • Rotterdam, Netherlands
Teaching and research in International Political Economy, governance, and related fields.
Department of Econometrics / MSc Econometrics and Management Science.