Shana Marshall
Associate Director & Assistant Research Professor, Institute for Middle East Studies,
George Washington University (website)
email: smarshall [at] gwu [dot] edu
phone: (202) 994-7916
Associate Director & Assistant Research Professor, Institute for Middle East Studies,
George Washington University (website)
email: smarshall [at] gwu [dot] edu
phone: (202) 994-7916
Middle East | corruption | defense industry | arms sales
Shana Marshall is Associate Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and Assistant Research Faculty member at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. She is an active member of several research collectives and projects, including the Middle East Research & Information Project, the Political Economy Project, and Security in Context. Her current research focuses on the role of venture capital and private equity in driving expanded weapons development, as well as the growth of domestic military industries in the Arab states. Prior to coming to George Washington University, Marshall was a research fellow at The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University.
Shana Marshall is Associate Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and Assistant Research Faculty member at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. She is an active member of several research collectives and projects, including the Middle East Research & Information Project, the Political Economy Project, and Security in Context. Her current research focuses on the role of venture capital and private equity in driving expanded weapons development, as well as the growth of domestic military industries in the Arab states. Prior to coming to George Washington University, Marshall was a research fellow at The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University.
Recent publications:
- "Every Killchain starts with the Money - and 20 other unhinged comments heard at an AI conference in DC", Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, June 5, 2024.
- "How Venture Capital is Busting the Military Industrial Complex – for its own benefit", Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, January 15, 2024. (webinar)
- “The Defense Industry’s Role in Militarizing US Foreign Policy,” Middle East Report 49(294), Summer 2020,
- “Middle East Armies and the Global Military-Industrial Complex,” in Joel Beinin, Bassam Haddad, and Sherene Seikaly (eds), A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa, Stanford University Press, December 2020,
- “Scholars, Spies and the Gulf Military Industrial Complex,” Middle East Report, September 2019.