REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
2025. Darwich, M. et. al. ‘Asphalt, Water, and Power: The Politics of Infrastructure in the MENA Region’. Middle East Law and Governance.
2025. Darwich. Alexander Wendt Meets the Middle East: The Construction of Difference within Collective Identities (in Arabic). Siyasat Arabiya.
2025. Darwich & Bakonyi, Port Infrastructures and the Making of Historical Time in the Horn of Africa: Urban Narratives of Modernity in Djibouti and Berbera (Somaliland). Cities.
2024. Valbjorn, Bank, and Darwich. Forward to the Past: Regional Repercussions of the Gaza War. Middle East Policy, 31(3): 3-17.
2024. Bakonyi & Darwich. Infrastructure and International Relations Theory: A New Research Agenda. International Studies Review (in Press).
2024. Darwich. Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East. In Chenoweth et al. Forum: Real Struggles, High Stakes of Doing International Studies in the Global South. International Studies Review, 26(3): viae038_1.
2023. Teaching International Relations in the Arab World: Theoretical Approaches and Knoweldge Production. In Arabic. Siyasat Arabiya, 11(61): 78-93 (co-authored with Bassel F. Salloukh).
2021. Foreign Policy Analysis and Armed Non-State Actors in World Politics: Lessons from the Middle East. Foreign Policy Analysis, 17(4): orab030.
2021. Alliance Politics in the post-2011: Advancing Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Mediterranean Politics,26(5): 635-656.
2021. Darwich et al. The Politics of Teaching International Relations in the Arab World: Reading Walt in Beirut, Wendt in Doha, and Abul-Fadl in Cairo. International Studies Perspectives, 22(4): 407-438.
2020. Escalation in Failed Military Interventions: Saudi and Emirati Quagmires in Yemen. Global Policy. 11(1): 103-12.
2020. IR in the Middle East: Foreign Policy Analysis in Theoretical Approaches’, co-authored with Juliet Kaarbo. International Relations, 34(2): 335-245.
2018. The Saudi Intervention in Yemen: Struggling for Status. Insight Turkey, 20(1): 125-141.
2018. The International Politics of Authoritarian Resilience and Breakdown in the Middle East. Mediterranean Politics, 23(3): 418-426.
2017. Creating the Enemy, Constructing the Threat: The Diffusion of Repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East. Democratization, 24(7):1289-1306.
2016. Casting the Other as Existential Threat: The Securitization of Sectarianism in the International Relations of the Syria Crisis. Global Discourse, 6(4): 712-732. (co-authored with T. Fakhoury)
2016. The Ontological (In)security of Similarity: Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi Foreign Policy. Foreign Policy Analysis, 12(3): 469-488.
2016. Ideational and Material Forces in Threat Perception: The Divergent Cases of Saudi Arabia and Syria during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). Journal of Global Security Studies, 1(2): 142-156.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2026. Bakonyi, J. & Darwich, M. ‘Port Infrastructures as Prisms: Unpacking Capitalism, Territoriality and Geopolitical Power’. In Cities, Infrastructure and International Relations, Simon Curtis et al., eds. De Guryter Handbook.
2026. Darwich, M. and Saouli A. International Relations of the Middle East: An Introduction. In International Relations of the Middle East: Theories and Cases. May Darwich and Adham Saouli, eds. Cambridge University Press.
2026. Darwich, M. Classical Realism: Saudi Foreign Policy in the Post-2011 Middle East. In International Relations of the Middle East: Theories and Cases. May Darwich and Adham Saouli, eds. Cambridge University Press.
2026. Sallouk, Darwich, and Shamaileh. Introduction. In The Arab State After the Uprisings: Theoretical and Empirical Reverberations, Salloukh, Darwich, and Shamaileh.
2026. Darwich, M. ‘Regimes in Disguise and the Post-2011 International Relations in the Arab World’. In The Arab State After the Uprisings, Salloukh, Darwich, and Shamaileh. Manchester University Press.
2025. Bakonyi & Darwich. ‘Capitalism and Infrastructural Ordering: (Re)Crafting of Statehood and Territorial Power’. In Transnational Infrastructures and the Transformation of Global Orders, eds. Bieling & Futterer. Springer.
2024. Darwich & Bakonyi. Port Infrastructure, Contested Narratives, and State-Building in the Horn of Africa.Global Policy e-book.
2024. ‘Foreign Policy of Armed Non-State Actors’, in Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis, Juliet Kaarbo and Cameron Thies (eds.). Oxford University Press
2022. Foreword. In O. Topak, M. Mekouar & F. Cavatorta (eds), New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa. Edinburgh University Press.
2022. May Darwich, F. Gregory Gause III, Waleed Hazbun, Curtis Ryan, and Morten Valbjorn, ‘International Relations and Regional (In)security’. In The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research since the Arab Uprisings, eds. Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom. Oxford University Press.
2022 . ‘The View from Riyadh: A Neoclassical Realist Perspective of Saudi Foreign Policy toward Iran’. In Saudi Arabia and Iran: the Struggle to Shape the Middle East, eds. Simon Mabon and Edward Wastnidge, Manchester University Press.
2020. ‘Middle Power Theory at the Regional Level: An Analytical Framework for the Middle East’, in Adham Saouli ed. Unfulfilled Aspirations: Middle Power Politics in the Middle East. Hurst and OUP.
2019. ‘Saudi Policies toward the Syria Crisis’, in Adham Saouli and Raymond Hinnebusch (eds.) The Syrian Uprising: Regional and International Dimensions. London: Routledge.
2016. ‘Organization of Islamic Cooperation’, in The Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Martin, Richard C. et al, eds. Macmillan Reference USA, 824-825.
2013. ‘The Arab Uprisings: National Demands and Supranational Implications’ [in Arabic]. In Nadia Moustafa & Amal Hamada (eds.) The Arab Uprisings and the Study of Political Science [in Arabic] (Cairo: Cairo University), 416-442.
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