Paul S. Rowe is Associate Professor of Political and International Studies at Trinity Western University and coordinator of the Political and International Studies programmes. He completed his PhD in Political Science at McGill University in 2003. He teaches in the areas of international and developing world politics with a specialty in the Middle East and South Asia. He has lived and worked in the Middle East and travels frequently throughout the region. His research interests lie in the politics of religion in the Middle East/South Asia and at the global level. He is the author of Religion and Global Politics (Oxford University Press, 2012).