MIT World Speakers

Nazli Choucri

Nazli Choucri works in international relations and international political economy with a special focus on conflict, connectivity, and the global environment. As Director of the Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD), she manages a distributed multilingual e-knowledge networking system designed to facilitate the provision and uses of knowledge in transitions to sustainability. She continues her research on interconnections among population, politics, and environment extending work reported in three of her earlier books" Population Dynamics in International Violence; International Energy Interdependence; and International Energy Futures, and her edited volume, Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Population and Conflict. She is co-author of Nations in Conflict, and the companion book on The Challenge of Japan Before World War II and After.

Choucri also serves as director of the Middle East Program at MIT. She is the founding editor of the MIT Press Series on Global Environmental Accord has just completed service as General Editor of the International Political Science Review. Choucri established the MIT Press Series on Global Environmental Accords: Strategies for Sustainability.

Choucri has served as advisor to numerous international organizations --including the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Environment Program, and the United Nations Fund for Population, among others -- as well as to a large number of national agencies.