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Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 5 (Uysal)
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 5 (Uysal) 15th Jan 2024 The State, exception and Turkey Gönenç Uysal Lecturer in International Political Economy, Lancaster University.  g.uysalwhittingham@lancaster.ac.uk There is a burgeoning academic interest in the notion of exception to discuss the state and its... Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 4 (Mabon)
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 4 (Mabon) 11th Dec 2023 Re-Imaging Sovereignty and the State  “We are at war with one another; a battlefront runs through the whole of society, continuously and permanently, and it is this battlefront that puts us all on one side or the other. There is no such thing as... Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 3 (Teti)
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 3 (Teti) 7th Dec 2023 Simulacra of Sovereignty and Statehood: The Biopolitics of Deferral, Simulation and Subalternity Andrea TetiDepartment of Political and Communication Sciences (DISPC) University of Salerno, Italy Email:         gteti@unisa.it The... Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 2 (Delatolla)
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 2 (Delatolla) 4th Dec 2023 Colonialism and the State   Andrew Delatolla, University of Leeds  The modern state as a concept is elusive; just when you think you have some formulation, some definition, or some working theoretical grounding, the rug is pulled out from... Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 1 (Baumann)
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 1 (Baumann) 28th Nov 2023 Sovereignty and international political economy: The Middle East’s role in the uneven geography of money (This contribution is part of a SEPAD report into the interplay of state and sovereignty) Sovereignty concerns not just security but also economy.... Read More
كلمة الأب.. كلمة الرب
كلمة الأب.. كلمة الرب 26th Oct 2023 لطالما كتبتُ من خلال قصائدي عن قضايانا اليومية الواقعية كنساء وعني أنا كإمرأة, لقد سخّرتُ ملَكتي الأدبية من أجل ذلك, بكل ما تحمله حياتنا... Read More
PROSPECTS FOR REFORM AND REVOLUTION ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
PROSPECTS FOR REFORM AND REVOLUTION ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 6th Oct 2023 The echoes of cries for ‘bread, freedom and social justice’ that dominated the 2011 Arab Uprisings linger only faintly in 2023. Popular calls for better economic prospects and political change across Tunisia, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain... Read More
قراءة استراتيجية للمشهد الإقليمي بعد الاتفاق السعودي-الإيراني: الإختبار الأول. 9th Jun 2023 قراءة استراتيجية للمشهد الإقليمي بعد الاتفاق السعودي-الإيراني: الإختبار الأول. مقدمة: غاب مشهد القادة المتنازعين حول الخلافات الإقليمية... Read More
India's Role in the Persian Gulf 24th Apr 2023 Guest post: Saloni Kapur. This is part of our series reflecting on external powers in the Middle East.  In this report, I address the question of whether India’s relationship with the Persian Gulf states has gone through a paradigm shift since... Read More
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