Section: Staff Profiles

Adham Saouli

Name
Dr Adham Saouli
Title
Lecturer; Programme Director, MSc International Relations of the Middle East
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
4.20 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0) 131 650 4245
E-Mail
Research Interests
IR and Middle East,State formation
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/adham_saouli

Office Hours

Fridays: 2:00-4:00

Qualifications

  • PhD (University of St Andrews, 2009)
  • MA (American University of Beirut, 2002)
  • BA (Notre Dame University, Lebanon, 1999)

Personal Biography

Adham Saouli joined the department of Politics and International Relations in September 2009. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University College Dublin (2008-2009). Prior to that Adham was a teaching and a research assistant at the University of St Andrews, where he received his PhD in June 2009.

Research Interests and Teaching

Adham’s disciplinary interests are International Relations and Comparative Politics, with a regional focus on the Middle East. He studies processes of state formation and state foreign behaviour in the Middle East, Historical Sociology, and the politics of state-like organisations. Adham's current research addresses themes of state survival in the Middle East, IR theory and foreign policy in the Middle East, and the political behaviour of Hizbullah.

Adham teaches the undergraduate module on ‘Politics of the Middle East’ and the post-graduate course on the ‘International Relations of the Middle East’. He also contributes to the ‘Comparative Politics’ and ‘Social and Political Enquiry’ modules. 

Publications

Books

The Arab State: Dilemmas of Late Formation (Routledge, 2012)

Articles and Book Chapters

‘The Foreign Policy of Fragmented States: Iraq and Lebanon’ in Raymond Hinnebusch and Anoushiravan Ehteshami (eds.) The Foreign Policies of Middle East States, 2nd edition, (Forthcoming 2011)

'Hizbullah in the Civilising Process: anarchy, self-restraint and violence', Third World Quarterly, Vol. 32 No. 5 (2011) pp. 925-942

‘Stability Under Late State Formation: The Case of Lebanon’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol.19 No.4 (December, 2006) pp.701-717

‘Lebanon’s Hizbullah: The Quest for Survival’, World Affairs, Vol.166 No.2 (Fall 2003), pp. 71-80

‘Arab Political Organisations within the Israeli State’, The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol.26 No.2 (Summer 2001), pp. 443-460

Other Publications

'Lebanon', The Middle East and North Africa, The Europa Regional Surveys of the World, Routledge, 2009-2011

Gareth Stansfield (2007) Iraq, reviewed for Political Studies Review (May, 2008), pp. 253-4

Jeremy Jones (2007) Negotiating Change: The New Politics of the Middle East, reviewed for Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 13 No. 1 (March 2008), 121–123

Charles Tilly (2006) Regimes and Repertoires, reviewed for Political Studies Review (September, 2007), pp. 473-4

‘The Iraqi Quagmire and the Post-Saddam Middle East: Reflections on Lebanon’, Tribune-Libanaise (March 2003)

Topics interested in supervising

I welcome proposals on topics in the field of Middle East politics. I am particularly interested in state formation; foreign policy behaviour; political development; politics of divided states (Lebanon and Iraq); and Hizbullah.

If you are interested in being supervised by Adham Saouli, please see the links below for more information:

PhD in Politics

This page was published on 27 October 2011


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