School of Social and Political Science

Background

Roles and Responsibilities

Programme Co-Director, MSc International Relations

Cohort Lead, MSc International Relations

Academic Committee Member, Edinburgh University Press

Senior Fellow, Advance HE

Teaching 2425

The Persian Gulf in International Relations

Gulf Politics

Survey in Middle East Politics

Polities of the Middle East

Comparative Politics in a Globalised World

Publications 

(2021) "Entrusted Norms: Security, Trust and Betrayal in the Gulf Cooperation Council Crisis" European Journal of International Relations (with Vincent C. Keating) 

(2020) "The States of the Persian Gulf: From Protectorates to Independent Countries" in The Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics edited by Mehran Kamrava. Abingdon, Routledge.

(2018) "Civil Resistance and the Arab Spring" International Affairs Vol. 94 (1)

(2018) “International Democracy Promotion and Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa" Democratization Vol 25 (1): 178-184

(2016) "The Conceptual Public Sphere and its Problems: Habermas, Political Action and the Arab States" Journal of International Political Theory Vol. 12 (3): 365-379

Current Doctoral Students

Zeineb Alsabeegh

Yusuf B. Topaloglu

Dandan Liu

Completed Doctoral Students

Alexis Montambault-Trudelle 

PhD supervision

I welcome PhD proposals on topics that lie within the areas of International Relations of the Middle East; international political economy of the Gulf states.

If you are interested in being supervised by Lucy Abbott, please see the links below (open in new window) for more information:

• PhD in Politics

*My PhD group has already reached capacity for 2425 - I am currently considering PhD proposals to start from 2526 onwards.