Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif is an assistant professor of politics in the Department of Political and Administrative Sciences at the School of Law and Political Sciences (SLPS). Having joined USEK in 2021 as an assistant professor, he currently serves as a member in the Research Committee in the SLPS.

He is an expert in the politics of deeply divided societies, with extensive publications in this field providing thorough cross-disciplinary analysis. His work examines institutional and constitutional provisions of power-sharing dynamics, identity politics in deeply divided societies, civil-military relations, collective memory and trauma. Aboultaif is also interested in Middle East politics, maritime borders in the Eastern Mediterranean, and minorities in the region.

Aboultaif is the sole author of two books, Power Sharing in Lebanon: Consociationalism since 1820 (Routledge, 2019), and Armed Forces in Deeply Divided Societies: Militaries and Power Sharing in Lebanon, Bosnia, Iraq and Burundi (Brill, 2024). He is also a co-editor of the book Power-Sharing in the Global South – Patterns, Practices and Potential (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2023), and has over fifteen publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Prior to joining USEK, Aboultaif taught in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and at different universities in Lebanon. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Druze Studies Journal, and is an investigator in the project “Power-Sharing for Peace? Between Adoptability and Durability in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq”, funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies.

EDUCATION

• PhD in Politics, University of Otago – New Zealand
• MA in Political Science, American University of Beirut – Lebanon
• BA in Political Science, American University of Beirut – Lebanon