Albadr Al Shateri is a professor at the National Defense College of the United Arab Emirates and he has held various posts in the UAE military. Al Shateri received his bachelor’s from Indiana University in Bloomington, where he studied political science and Middle Eastern languages and cultures, as well as a certificate in African studies. He earned master’s degrees in political science and Middle Eastern and North African studies and a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Al Shateri was awarded the Richard P. Mitchell Memorial Prize from the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies; the Top Student’s Prize from the UAE Ministry of Education; and the Sheikh Rashid Award from the Culture and Science Symposium in Dubai. He also won a prize for his dissertation, “The Political Economy of State Formation: The United Arab Emirates in Comparative Perspective,” from the Society for Arab Gulf Studies.