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IR in the Middle East: Foreign Policy Analysis in Theoretical Approaches (2019)
Journal Article
Darwich, M., & Kaarbo, J. (2020). IR in the Middle East: Foreign Policy Analysis in Theoretical Approaches. International Relations, 34(2), 225-245. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117819870238

Research on international relations of the Middle East (IRME) has suffered from a schism between International Relations (IR) theory and regional particularities. To address this, scholars have offered corrective accounts by adding domestic factors t... Read More about IR in the Middle East: Foreign Policy Analysis in Theoretical Approaches.

Saudi Arabia and the Syrian Crisis (2019)
Book Chapter
Darwich, M. (2019). Saudi Arabia and the Syrian Crisis. In R. Hinnebusch, & A. Saouli (Eds.), The war for Syria : regional and international dimensions. Routledge

The Saudi Intervention in Yemen: Struggling for Status (2018)
Journal Article
Darwich, M. (2018). The Saudi Intervention in Yemen: Struggling for Status. Insight Turkey, 20(2), 125-141. https://doi.org/10.25253/99.2018202.08

On March 26, 2015, Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes on Yemen with the aim of restoring the rule of President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi and destroying the Houthi movement. Scholars and policy analysts moved quickly to examine the Yemen war as a sectarian... Read More about The Saudi Intervention in Yemen: Struggling for Status.

Creating the Enemy, Constructing the Threat: The Diffusion of Repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East (2017)
Journal Article
Darwich, M. (2017). Creating the Enemy, Constructing the Threat: The Diffusion of Repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East. Democratization, 7(2), 1289-1306. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2017.1307824

On 25 December 2013, the military-backed government in Egypt declared the Muslim Brotherhood to be a terrorist organization. A few months later, the Saudi Kingdom followed suit and attempted to build a regional coalition to counter this constructed e... Read More about Creating the Enemy, Constructing the Threat: The Diffusion of Repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East.

The international politics of authoritarian resilience and breakdown in the Middle East (2017)
Journal Article
Darwich, M. (2018). The international politics of authoritarian resilience and breakdown in the Middle East. Mediterranean Politics, 23(3), 418-426. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2017.1305509

The hope and disappointment that accompanied the 2011 Arab uprisings have demonstrated the centrality of international factors in affecting regime change and shaping transitions in the Middle East and North Africa. Although the impact of internationa... Read More about The international politics of authoritarian resilience and breakdown in the Middle East.

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.

Machtprestige als Motiv des saudischen Krieges im Jemen [Power Prestige and the Origins of the Saudi War in Yemen] (2015)
Digital Artefact
Darwich, M. (2015). Machtprestige als Motiv des saudischen Krieges im Jemen [Power Prestige and the Origins of the Saudi War in Yemen]. [[Media unknown]]

Am 26. März 2015 begann Saudi-Arabien, Luftangriffe auf den Jemen zu fliegen mit dem Ziel, die Herrschaft des geflohenen Präsidenten Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi wiederherzustellen. Die tatsächlichen Beweggründe für den saudischen Kriegseintritt bleiben b... Read More about Machtprestige als Motiv des saudischen Krieges im Jemen [Power Prestige and the Origins of the Saudi War in Yemen].

The Ontological (In)security of Similarity: Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi Foreign Policy (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper
Darwich, M. (2014). The Ontological (In)security of Similarity: Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi Foreign Policy

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 confli... Read More about The Ontological (In)security of Similarity: Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi Foreign Policy.