2025. Non-state actors and regional disorder in the Middle East. POMEPS Studies.
2025. Egypt on Edge: Finding a Delicate Balance between Gaza and Trump The Conversation (french version)
2025. Israel’s Wars and the Siege of Arab Regimes. APSA MENA Newsletter, 8(1): 21-23
2024. Sudan is burning and foreign powers are benefiting – what’s in it for the UAE The Conversation.
2023. Alliances in the Post-2011 Middle East, Aula Mediterrania, 137, 3p.
2023 . Sudan: the longer the conflict lasts, the higher the risk of a regional war. The Conversation.
2023. Chire, Darwich, Bakonyi, Ismail, Djibouti Fiddles amid the Scramble for the Red Sea, African Arguments
2022. Ali, Bakonyi, Darwich, The Making of a Global Port and the Unmaking of a People, African Arguments
2022. Darwich & Bakonyi, Waiting for Ethiopia, The Conversation
2022. Ibrahim, Bakonyi, and Darwich. Somalia: Puntland state port is getting a revamp The Conversation
2020. ‘Saudi-Iranian Rivalry from the Gulf to the Horn of Africa: Changing Geographies and Infrastructures’. POMEPS Studies 38. Sectarianism and International Relations, ed. Marc Lynch and Simon Mabon.
2019. ‘Great and Regional Powers in the Middle East: The Evolution of Role Conceptions’. POMEPS Studies 34. Shifting Global Politics in the Middle East, ed. Marc Lynch and Amaney Jamal.
2018. ‘The Concept of Escalation in IR’, Mafaheem Series [in Arabic]. Future Centre for Advanced Research and Studies.
2018. ‘The Yemen War: A Proxy Sectarian War?’, in Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Struggle to Shape the Middle East, edited by Simon Mabon. The Foreign Policy Centre.
2018. ‘Saudi Arabia’s Dark Role in the Syria Crisis’ [in German], FriedensForum Magazine, 4/18.
2018. ‘Analytical Eclecticism: Appraising the Study of Middle East International Relations’, International History and Politics APSA Newsletter, 3(2): 6-8.
2017. ‘The Concept of Offshore Balancing’, Mafaheem Series [in Arabic]. Future Centre for Advanced Research and Studies.
2016. ‘To Intervene or Not to Intervene? The Use of Military Force as Coercive Mechanism of Autocratic Diffusion’. POMEPS Studies 21. Transnational Diffusion and Cooperation in the Middle East, ed. Marc Lynch.
2015. ‘Machtprestige als Motiv des Saudi Krieges im Jemen’ [Power Prestige and the Saudi Intervention in Yemen], GIGA Focus Nahost, 6/2015.
2015. ‘The Challenge of Bridging IR and Area Studies in Middle East International Relations Teaching’, LSE Middle East Center Blog.
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