Ewan Stein
Job Title
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
Room number
4.27Building (Address)
Chrystal Macmillan BuildingStreet (Address)
15a George SquareCity (Address)
EdinburghCountry (Address)
UKPost code (Address)
EH8 9LDResearch interests
Research interests
Political Islam, Middle East politics, Egyptian politics, Arab political thought, Arab-Israeli conflict, State-society relations, International relations of the Middle East
My research interests include the international relations of the Middle East, particularly the role of ideology and intellectual dynamics, political Islam, and the politics and foreign policy of Egypt.
Topics interested interested in supervising
I am interested in supervising PhD projects in any area of Middle Eastern politics or international relations, particularly topics related to Egypt, political Islam, foreign policy and the role of ideas.
If you are interested in being supervised by Ewan Stein, please see the link below for more information:
Background
Qualifications
PhD, International Relations (London School of Economics)
MA, Arab Studies (Georgetown University)
MA (Hons), Arabic (University of Edinburgh)
Selected publications
Books
International Relations in the Middle East: Hegemonic Strategies and Regional Order, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2021)
Intellectual dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa, London: Routledge (2015).
Ewan Stein and Elisabeth Kendall eds., Twenty-First Century Jihad: Law, Society and Military Action, London: IB Tauris (2015).
Representing Israel in Modern Egypt: Ideas, Intellectuals and Foreign Policy from Nasser to Mubarak, London: IB Tauris (2012)
Articles and Chapters:
Ewan Stein and Neil Russell, "Islam and Islamic Movements in MENA Politics" in Raymond Hinnebusch and Jasmine Gani eds., State, Revolution And War: Conflict and Resilience in MENA’s States and States System. Routledge (2019)
"Historical sociology and Middle East international relations" in Shahram Akbarzadeh ed., Routledge Handbook of International Relations in the Middle East. Routledge, (2019)
"Modalities of Jihadist Activism in the Middle East and North Africa", IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2015, Institut Europeu de la Mediterrania, Barcelona (2015)
Ewan Stein and Elisabeth Kendall, 'Contextualising 21st Century Jihad' in Ewan Stein and Elisabeth Kendall eds., Twenty-First Century Jihad: Law, Society and Military Action, London: IB Tauris (2015)
"Jihad discourse in Egypt under Muhammmad Mursi" in Ewan Stein and Elisabeth Kendall eds., Twenty-First Century Jihad: Law, Society and Military Action, London: IB Tauris (2015)
Ewan Stein and Frederic Volpi, "Islamism and the State after the Arab Uprisings", Democratization 22(2): 276-293 (2015)
"Studying Islamism after the Arab Spring," Journal of Mediterranean Politics, Volume 19 Issue 1 (2014)
Ewan Stein and Frederic Volpi, "Islamism and Regime Change in the Middle East and North Africa: Looking beyond the Arab Uprisings", in Ewan Stein and Frederic Volpi, eds. Islamism and the Arab Uprisings. Policy paper published by the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, July 2014.
"Intellectuals and Political Change in the Modern Middle East and North Africa," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 41 Issue 1 (January 2014)
Ewan Stein and W.J Dorman, "Informality Versus the State? Islamists, Informal Cairo and Political Integration by Other Means" , Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, Volume 12 Issue 4 (Winter 2013)
"Revolution or Coup? Egypt's Fraught Transition," Survival, Volume 54, Issue 4 (July 2012).
"Revolutionary Egypt: Promises and Perils" in Nicholas Kitchen ed., After the Arab Spring: Power Shift in the Middle East, LSE IDEAS Special Report (2012).
"The Gama'a Islamiyya: from Impasse to Opportunity", in Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing eds., The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest and Social Change in Egypt, 1999-2011. London: Verso (2012).
"Beyond Arabism vs. sovereignty: relocating ideas in the international relations of the Middle East," Review of International Studies. Volume 38 Issue 4 (October 2012).
"The Camp David Consensus: Ideas, Intellectuals and the Division of Labour in Egypt’s Foreign Policy toward Israel,” International Studies Quarterly. Volume 55 Issue 3 (September 2011).
"An Uncivil Partnership: Egypt’s Jama’a Islamiyya and the State after the Jihad,” Third World Quarterly. Volume 33 Issue 5 (June 2011).
“What Does the Gama’a Islamiyya Want Now?” Middle East Report, 254 (Spring 2010).
Other publications
“Islamists and Liberal Values in the Middle East.” Current History 115 (785): 363–65. December, 2016. (Review of Shadi Hamid, Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World)
Review of Saikal, A. and Acharya, A. (Eds), Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia: Social Protest and Authoritarian Rule after the Arab Spring, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Volume 26, Issue 4, 2015
"Beyond 'geosectarianism': political systems and international relations in the Middle East", Project on Middle East Political Science, 13 August, 2015
“The Islamic State and Al Qaeda: the Return of Jihad to the Middle East”, Global Justice Academy Blog, 16 September 2014
“La renaissance du ‘jihad’ au Proche-Orient”, Afkar/Idees, Autumn 2014
Ewan Stein and Frederic Volpi, ed. Islamism and the Arab Uprisings. Policy paper published by the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, July 2014.
"'One Hand', Many Heads: the Role of the Army in Egypt," The Conversation, 8 July 2013
"Fate of Muslim Brotherhood tied into web of circumstances and ambitions", The Scotsman, 5 July, 2013
"Calling Time on the January Revolution?", Open Democracy, 3 June 2011 (http://www.opendemocracy.net/ewan-stein/calling-time-on-january-revolut…)
"The Egyptian Revolution and Israel: the Sum of all Fears?", Leviathan. Vol. 1 Issue 2 (2011)
“Yusuf Qaradawi’s Jihad”, The Guardian, 17 August 2009.
Review of Jonathan Cook, Israel and the Clash of Civilisations, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, August 2009.
Works within
Staff Hours and Guidance
By appointment