International Relations of the Middle East Theories and Case Studies

Editors

• May Darwich, University of Birmingham

  May Darwich is Associate Professor in International Relations of the Middle East at the University of Birmingham. Her research engages Middle Eastern cases to advance debates in International Relations theory, focusing on themes such as threat perception, alliance politics, identity, and foreign policy. She is author of Threats and Alliances in the Middle East: Saudi and Syrian Policies in a Turbulent Region (Cambridge, 2019).

• Adham Saouli, University of St Andrews, Scotland

  Adham Saouli is Professor of International Relations and Middle East Politics at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Arab State: Dilemmas of Late Formation (2012), Hezbollah: Socialisation and its Tragic Ironies (2019) and editor of Unfulfilled Aspirations: Middle Powers in the Middle East (2020). His ongoing research explores the genealogy and contemporary political impact of the Arabo-Islamic concept of Fitna.