This article unpacks the phenomenon of identity-based stacking in armed forces to lay the
groundwork for a next generation of scholarship, proposing three sets of extensions with …

Based on in-depth fieldwork, this article explores protest movements in Iraq drawing on
theorizations on NGOization, civil society and social movements. I situate the protests within …

This article proposes theorising contemporary uprisings through an analytical lens that
considers the discursiveness, spatiality and materiality of protests and protesters, and the …

The wars in Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen—for all their devastation—have hastened
regional transformations in international collaborations and domestic institutions. Wars in the …

This article analyses the nature of the legitimacy deficits of the post‐2003 Iraqi state and the
grounds upon which alternative political orders have been proposed. The theoretical …

The Syrian conflict has often been described as a clash of identities between minority
Alwaites and majority Sunnis (Balanche, 2018: xi; Lesch, 2012: 101). Today there is a …

Amidst violent contestation across the Middle East leaving regimes facing–or fearing–
popular protests, the regulation of political life became increasingly important. Across the …

The 2011 popular uprisings left an indelible mark on the politics of identity in the Middle
East. Minority-based regimes, such as Bahrain's Sunni monarchy and Syria's Alawi-led …

This chapter looks at the emergence of a politically and socially salient sense of Sunni
sectarian identity in Iraq and beyond. To understand this phenomenon, one first has to …

This thesis explores the formation of the leftist-Sadrist alliance that won Iraq's May 2018
national elections. It argues that this cross-ideological social movement coalition was neither …