REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Accepted The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: Navigating Sectarianism in the International Relations of the Middle East. Politics & Religion. Co-authored with Lujain Al-Meligy.
2026 Still… Balancing What? The Study of Threat Perception and Alliances in the Middle East. Middle East Law and Governance, 18(1):41-49.
2026 The Erosion of the Arab State in Regional and Global Contexts (in Arabic). Siyasat Arabiya 14(78): 78-93. https://doi.org/10.31430/MXAJ6765
2025 Alexander Wendt Meets the Middle East: The Construction of Difference within Collective Identities (in Arabic). Siyasat Arabiya, 73(13): 101-119. https://doi.org/10.31430/IBNZ2669
2025 Port Infrastructures and the Making of Historical Time in the Horn of Africa: Urban Narratives of Modernity in Djibouti and Berbera (Somaliland). Cities 159: 105781 (Co-authored with Jutta Bakonyi). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105781
2024 Forward to the Past: Regional Repercussions of the Gaza War. Middle East Policy, 31(3): 3-17. (co-authored with Morten Valbjorn and Andre Bank). https://doi.org/10.1111/mepo.12758
2024 Infrastructure and International Relations Theory: A New Research Agenda. International Studies Review 26(4) (co-authored with Jutta Bakonyi). https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viae046
2024 Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East. International Studies Review, 26(3): viae038_1. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viae038.01
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).https://doi.org/10.31430/CIRL1108
2021 Foreign Policy Analysis and Armed Non-State Actors in World Politics: Lessons from the Middle East. Foreign Policy Analysis, 17(4): orab030. https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orab030
2021 Alliance Politics in the post-2011: Advancing Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Mediterranean Politics, 26(5): 635-656. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2021.1889300
2020 Escalation in Failed Military Interventions: Saudi and Emirati Quagmires in Yemen. Global Policy. 11(1): 103-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12781
2020 IR in the Middle East: Foreign Policy Analysis in Theoretical Approaches, International Relations, 34(2): 335-245. (co-authored with Juliet Kaarbo) https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117819870238
2018 The Saudi Intervention in Yemen: Struggling for Status. Insight Turkey, 20(1): 125-141. https://doi.org/10.25253/99.2018202.08
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
2017 Creating the Enemy, Constructing the Threat: The Diffusion of Repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East. Democratization, 24(7):1289-1306. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2017.1307824
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). https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2016.1259231
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
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. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogw005
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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