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Casting the Other as an Existential Threat: The Securitisation of Sectarianism in the International Relations of the Syria Crisis (2016)
Journal Article
Darwich, M., & Fakhoury, T. (2016). Casting the Other as an Existential Threat: The Securitisation of Sectarianism in the International Relations of the Syria Crisis. Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, 6(4), 712-732. https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2016.1259231

With the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, the Sunni–Shiite divide came back to the fore in regional politics. In this context, sectarian identities have now acquired a security dimension, as actors have started framing each other as existential thre... Read More about Casting the Other as an Existential Threat: The Securitisation of Sectarianism in the International Relations of the Syria Crisis.

Ideational and Material Forces in Threat Perception: The Divergent Cases of Syria and Saudi Arabia During the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) (2016)
Journal Article
Darwich, M. (2016). Ideational and Material Forces in Threat Perception: The Divergent Cases of Syria and Saudi Arabia During the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988). Journal of Global Security Studies, 1(2), 142-156. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogw005

How do states perceive threats? Why are material forces sometimes more prominent in shaping threat perceptions, whereas ideational forces are the motivator in other instances? This article aims to move beyond the task of determining whether material... Read More about Ideational and Material Forces in Threat Perception: The Divergent Cases of Syria and Saudi Arabia During the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988).

The Ontological (In)security of Similarity: Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi Foreign Policy (2016)
Journal Article
Darwich, M. (2016). The Ontological (In)security of Similarity: Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi Foreign Policy. Foreign Policy Analysis, 12(3), 469-488. https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orw032

It has long been argued that identity matters in international relations. Yet how identity impacts enmity and conflict among states remains the subject of debate. The existing literature asserts that differences in identity can be a source of conflic... Read More about The Ontological (In)security of Similarity: Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi Foreign Policy.