Fred H. Lawson

Fred H. Lawson is Rice Professor of Government at Mills College, where he teaches international relations and Middle East politics. He first visited Syria in 1979, and later spent a year at the University of Aleppo, Syria as a Fulbright lecturer in International Relations. He is the author of Demystifying Syria (Saqi Books), Constructing International Relations in the Arab World (Stanford University Press) and Why Syria Goes to War (Cornell University Press).