Dr. Albadr Alshateri is a professor at the UAE National Defense College in Abu Dhabi. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in comparative politics, international relations, and political economy as well as two master’s degrees in political science and in Middle Eastern and North African Studies. He holds a BA from Indiana University, where he studied political science, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and a certificate in African studies.

Dr. Alshateri has received numerous awards, including a prize for his dissertation entitled “The Political Economy of State Formation: The United Arab Emirates in Comparative Perspective”, from the Society for Arab Gulf Studies (USA). Dr. Alshateri has contributed articles to Al Ittihad Newspaper (Abu Dhabi), Al Khaleej Newspaper (Sharjah), The National (Abu Dhabi), American Diplomacy, and Gulf News (Dubai), Asas Media (Beirut), The Diplomat (Amsterdam), Modern Diplomacy (London). Dr. Alshateri is working on a book on US relations with the Arab Gulf in the new millennium. Dr. Alshateri is from Abu Dhabi where he lives with his family.