{"id":14154,"date":"2025-05-22T11:13:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=14154"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:57:09","slug":"yasir-kuoti","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/profile\/yasir-kuoti\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasir Kuoti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Yasir Kuoti is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science specializing in international relations and comparative politics with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Substantively, his research interests include Iraqi politics and security, regime politics, religion and politics, <\/span><em>and<\/em><span>\u00a0terrorism and political violence, with relevant publications in the\u00a0<\/span><em>Journal of International Affairs<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>Small Wars Journal<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>World Policy Journal<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>War on the Rocks<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>Jamestown Foundation Terrorism Monitor<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>Middle East Research Institute<\/em><span>, among others. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program in fall 2024, Yasir held several policy and research positions in both the United States and Iraq. A native Arabic speaker, he holds a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (Magna Cum Laude) and M.A. in International Affairs from Marquette University. To learn more about Kuoti\u2019s research and publications, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/profile\/yasir-kuoti\/\">his\u00a0webpage<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In Spring 2025, Sam received a CISS Summer mini-grant to train in critical research methods essential for ensuring the methodological rigor of his research which examines how authoritarian regimes use political rhetoric as a precursor to state repression; how such repression fuels the emergence of armed groups; and why some of these armed groups transition to politics while others do not<\/span><span>.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Learn more in<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/2025\/05\/20\/ciss-announces-2025-faculty-and-graduate-student-summer-mini-grant-recipients\/\">our\u00a0featured article<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22310,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14200,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14154\/revisions\/14200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}