{{Short description|American political scientist and scholar}} {{Multiple issues| {{notability|Academics|date=February 2013}} {{BLP primary sources|date=February 2013}} }} {{Proposed deletion/dated |concern = Tagged for notability concerns and for BLP primary sources for 13 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. Poorly sourced WP:BLP: all the sources are ''by'' him, not about him. |timestamp = 20260530093903 |nom = Bearian |help = }} '''Joshua A. Stacher''' (born 1975) is an American political scientist and scholar of Middle East politics, authoritarianism, and social movements.<ref name="kentbio">{{Cite web |title=Joshua Stacher |work=Kent State University - Department of Political Science |accessdate=2009-07-17 |year=2009 |url=http://www.kent.edu/polisci/People/stacher.cfm |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202203544/http://www.kent.edu/polisci/People/stacher.cfm |archivedate=2008-12-02 }}</ref><ref name="personal_research">{{Cite web |last = Stacher |first = Joshua |title = Research Interests and Areas |accessdate = 2009-07-17 |url = http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jstacher/Research.html |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100727224307/http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jstacher/Research.html |archivedate = 2010-07-27 }}</ref>
== Background and education ==
Joshua Stacher received his undergraduate degree at Washington and Jefferson College in 1998, having majored in History and English. He subsequently studied comparative politics and Middle Eastern Islamist movements at The American University in Cairo, there receiving his master's in Political Science in 2002.<ref name="personal_cv"> {{Cite web |last = Stacher |first = Joshua |title = Curriculum Vitae |accessdate = 2009-07-17 |url = http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jstacher/Cv.html |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100727224008/http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jstacher/Cv.html |archivedate = 2010-07-27 }}</ref>
In 2007 Stacher received his doctorate from the University of St. Andrews School of International Relations. His thesis was entitled “Adapting Authoritarianism: Institutions and Co-optation in Egypt and Syria”. He subsequently served as Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in Syracuse New York.<ref name="personal_cv" /> In 2008 Stacher became Associate Professor of Political Science at Kent State University, Ohio.<ref name="personal_cv" />
Stacher speaks Arabic (Modern Standard, as well as Egyptian and Syrian dialects) at the advanced to fluent level.<ref name="personal_cv" />
== Published research ==
Stacher's peer-reviewed literature focuses on Egyptian politics and the relationship between authoritarianism, opposition parties and social movements, and political culture. Stacher has taken issue with the idea that deep-seated cultural or historical factors give Egyptians an inherently anti-democratic political culture. Instead he has attempted to show that Egypt's political culture is characterized by public apathy caused by the authoritarian nature of the state.<ref>{{Cite journal | volume = 23 | issue = 3 | pages = 83–99 | last = Stacher | first = Joshua | title = A Democracy with Fangs and Claws and its Effect on Egyptian Political Culture | journal = Arab Studies Quarterly | year = 2001 }}</ref> Stacher has illustrated various ways in with the Egyptian government has acted to repress or frustrate opposition parties in order to retain power, while nominally allowing electoral choice.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1080/135301904042000268222 | issn = 1353-0194 | volume = 31 | issue = 2 | pages = 215–233 | last = Stacher | first = Joshua | title = Parties over: the demise of Egypt's opposition parties | journal = British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies | year = 2004 | s2cid = 145021477 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1080/03056240802196807 | issn = 0305-6244 | volume = 35 | issue = 2 | pages = 301–314 | last = Stacher | first = Joshua | title = Egypt: The Anatomy of Succession | journal = Review of African Political Economy | year = 2008 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.503.7046 | s2cid = 153425801 }}</ref>
Stacher is currently at work on a book "that compares institutions and co-optation to explain authoritarian durability in Egypt and Syria".<ref name="kentbio" />
== Public views == {{BLP unsourced section|date=February 2013}}
=== The Arabist ===
In 2005 Stacher was a frequent contributor to the Middle Eastern politics blog ''The Arabist'', publishing over a hundred articles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kent.edu/polisci/People/stacher.cfm/ |title=Joshua Stacher |website=www.kent.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202203544/http://www.kent.edu/polisci/People/stacher.cfm |archive-date=2008-12-02}} </ref>
=== Muslim Brotherhood ===
In March 2007 Stacher, along with Professor Samer Shehata, wrote an op-ed that was published in the Boston Globe entitled "Hear out the Muslim Brotherhood" which criticized the United States government for refusing to deal with the organization.<ref>{{Cite web | last = Stacher | first = Joshua |author2=Samer Sehata | title = Hear out the Muslim Brotherhood | work = The New York Times | accessdate = 2009-07-17 | date = 2007-03-26 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/opinion/26iht-edstach.1.5028488.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=joshua%20stacher&st=cse }}</ref> They argued that the group was "the most popular and organized political movement in Egypt" and that it had "demonstrated a commitment to working peacefully ... despite years of repression". As the oldest and most important Islamist group in the Middle East, an engagement with the Brotherhood would demonstrate a willingness on the part of the United States to talk to moderate Islamist groups, and signify a genuine commitment to "promoting democracy - not just to supporting those who are friendly to U.S. interests".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://education.mei.edu/profile/joshua-stacher|title = Joshua Stacher | Middle East Institute}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081202203544/http://www.kent.edu/polisci/People/stacher.cfm Joshua Stacher at Kent State University] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090325090543/http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jstacher/index.html Dr. Stacher's personal website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090717052832/http://arabist.net/archives/2009/07/13/podcast-josh-stacher-on-gamal-mubarak/ Interview on The Arabist podcast]. Focuses on the rise of Gamal Mubarak and the ongoing succession of power within Egypt's National Democratic Party.
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