Lucy Abbott
- Name
- Dr Lucy Abbott
- Title
- Career Development Fellow
- Address
- 3.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 131 6508254
- Lucy.Abbott@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- IR and the Middle East, Regionalism, Public Sphere, The Gulf States, Jordan, Process Tracing
- URL
- http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/people/academic_staff/lucy_abbott
Guidance and Feedback Hours
- From Sept 10th 2018: Wednesdays, 10:00 - 12:00
Programme Director MSc International Relations of the Middle East
Programme Director MSc International Relations of the Middle East with Advanced Arabic
Research Day
Research day will be on TUESDAYS during Autumn Semester 2018
Teaching (2018-19)
- Gulf Politics (Course Organiser)
- Middle East in International Relations (Lecturer)
- Comparative Politics in a Globalised World (Lecturer)
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Modern Languages, University College, University of Durham
MA International Relations, Ustinov College, University of Durham
PhD, St. Chad's College, University of Durham
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Personal Biography
Lucy joined Politics and IR in 2017 from the University of Oxford where she lectured in Middle East Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations. During her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted fieldwork in the Middle East.
Publications
- (2018) "Civil Resistance and the Arab Spring" International Affairs Vol. 94 No.1 January
- (2017) “International Democracy Promotion and Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa" Democratization Pre-published online 9th Feb 2017
- (2016) "The Conceptual Public Sphere and its Problems: Habermas, Political Action and the Arab States" Journal of International Political Theory Vol. 12 (3): 365-379
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