Alasdair Drysdale

Alasdair Drysdale (born 1950) is professor emeritus of geography and formerly associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of New Hampshire.[1][2]

Education

Drysdale was educated at Strathallan School near Perth, Scotland.[3] He studied at Durham University gaining a BA (Hons) in modern middle eastern studies (geography and Arabic) in 1971 and an MA in geography in 1972.[4] In 1977 he was awarded a PhD in geography from the University of Michigan.[4]

Research

Drysdale's expertise encompasses human geography, political geography, and population and development in the non-western world, specifically, Syria and the Middle East.[4] His early research focused on Syria and its internal complexities as well as its external relationships with its neighbours in the Middle East and countries further afield. More recently, his research has centred on the rapid ageing of the population in the Middle East, and responses to that growth in Oman and Jordan.

In 1990 he gave a prepared statement on Syria to the United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East regarding The Middle East in the 1990s.[5]

Drysdale serves on the editorial board of The Northeastern Geographer (2007–)[6] and the Arab World Geographer (1998–), for whom he was also the North American book review editor (1998–2007).[7] He also served on the international advisory board of the journal Geopolitics (1996–2007).[8]

Publications

Drysdale has authored books, book chapters and articles.[9] He has provided country profiles for inclusion in various encyclopaedias, yearbooks and atlases. Entries include: Syria and Libya in the Colliers Yearbook from 1980 to 1997, Compton's Encyclopedia, Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Middle East, Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and Earth: The Comprehensive Atlas.

Books

  • Clive Schofield; David Newman; Alasdair Drysdale; Janet Allison Brown, eds. (2002). The Razor's Edge: International Boundaries and Political Geography. London: Kluwer Law International. ISBN 978-9041198747.
  • Alasdair Drysdale and Raymond A Hinnebusch (1991). Syria and the Middle East Peace Process. New York: Council on Foreign Relations. p. 1. ISBN 978-0876091050. syria and the middle east peace process.
  • Alasdair Drysdale and Gerald Blake (1985). The Middle East and North Africa: A Political Geography. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195035384.

Book chapters

References

  1. "New Associate Dean Named". University of New Hampshire. 13 August 2013. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  2. "Emeriti". University of New Hampshire. 2017. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  3. "A D Drysdale" (PDF). The Strathallian. Vol. 14 no. 5. 1988. p. 68. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  4. "Alasdair Drysdale". University of New Hampshire. 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  5. "The Middle East in the 1990s". United States Government Publishing Office. 1991. pp. 205–230. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  6. "Editorial Advisory Board" (PDF). The Northeastern Geographer. 4 (2): 1. 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  7. "International Editorial Advisory Board". Arab World Geographer. 18 July 2011. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  8. "International Advisory Board". Geopolitics. 5 (2): ebi. 2000. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.476.8765. doi:10.1080/14650040008407674.
  9. List of publications from Microsoft Academic
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