Professor Choucri works in international relations and international political economy with a special focus on conflict, connectivity, and the global environment. Her current research is on the power of knowledge in the global economy, and the political and strategic implications of e-development, e-knowledge, and e-politics. As Director of the Global System for Sustainable Development(GSSD), she manages a distributed multilingual e-knowledge networking system (including Arabic and Chinese) designed to facilitate the provision and uses of knowledge in transitions to sustainability. The intellectual foundations and implementation strategy are reported in a co-edited book entitled Mapping Sustainability:Knowledge e-Networking and the Value Chain.
Professor Choucri continues her research on interconnections among population, politics, and environment extending work reported in three of her earlier books, namely Population Dynamics in International Violence; International Energy Interdependence; and International Energy Futures, and her edited volume on 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.
Professor Choucri is Associate Director of the MIT Technology and Development Program, and as Head of the Middle East Program at MIT. Her current research interests focus on innovations in global knowledge networking and implications for the global economy. She is the founding Editor of the MIT Press Series on Global Environmental Accord and the former General Editor of the International Political Science Review. Dr. Choucri has been involved in the technical aspects of as well as follow-up for, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED 1992). During this period she directed the MIT study which was published as Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses, (1993), and established the MIT Press Series on Global Environmental Accords: Strategies for Sustainability.
In addition to her international experience of research, advising and consulting in over 25 countries, Professor Choucri has served as an 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 a large number of national agencies. She currently is in her second term as the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Management of Transformation (MOST) Program of UNESCO. Professor Choucri is an elected member of the European Academy of Science.
