All Outputs (3)

Discursive challenges: Power, state legitimacy and counter‐narratives in the Arab world (2023)
Journal Article
Walsh, T., & Dogan‐Akkas, B. (2023). Discursive challenges: Power, state legitimacy and counter‐narratives in the Arab world. Global Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13221

The three articles in this special section address several processes of legitimisation in the contemporary Arab World. They provide compelling insights into why Islamist movements moderate, how alternative political orders arise in response to issues... Read More about Discursive challenges: Power, state legitimacy and counter‐narratives in the Arab world.

Securitisation imperatives and the exaggeration of Iranian involvement with the Houthi movement by international actors (2023)
Journal Article
Walsh, T. (2023). Securitisation imperatives and the exaggeration of Iranian involvement with the Houthi movement by international actors. Global Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13204

Through examination of elite-level discourse between 2014 and 2015, this paper argues that the exaggeration of Iranian involvement with the Houthis served to justify the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen. Ironically, this had the effect of benefiting I... Read More about Securitisation imperatives and the exaggeration of Iranian involvement with the Houthi movement by international actors.

How to analyze visual propaganda in the Middle East: An analysis of imagery in the “Saudi Strike Force Movie” (2022)
Journal Article
Walsh, T. (2022). How to analyze visual propaganda in the Middle East: An analysis of imagery in the “Saudi Strike Force Movie”. Digest of Middle East Studies, 31(2), 96-112. https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.12262

This paper provides an innovative approach to visual analysis in the Middle East. It addresses a fundamental problem in the fields of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Securitization Theory (ST): they largely ignore the visual. This project devel... Read More about How to analyze visual propaganda in the Middle East: An analysis of imagery in the “Saudi Strike Force Movie”.