School of Social and Political Science

Background

Roles and Responsibilities

Director of PGT Programmes for Politics and International Relations

Academic Committee Member, Edinburgh University Press

Senior Fellow, Advance HE

Teaching 2526

Comparative Politics in a Globalised World (UG)

The Persian Gulf in International Relations (UG)

Politics of the Middle East (UG)

Gulf Politics (PG)

Survey in Middle East Politics (PG)

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

PhD supervision

Current Doctoral Students

Dandan Liu

Kazuto Matsuda

Completed Doctoral Students

Alexis Montambault-Trudelle 

Yusuf B. Topaloglu

Zeineb Alsabeegh

*My PhD group has now reached capacity for 26/27 and 27/28.