Academic publications

I am a PhD-trained researcher with a general interest in politics and international relations, especially of the Middle East and Latin America regions and rising powers like the BRICS.

I am also interested in political leadership and the role and impact that leaders have had in their countries.

Below you’ll find links to all those publications and their abstracts.

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2020

Rising powers and the Gulf monarchies during the COVID-19 pandemic, Global Discourses (2020).

Political Time and Leadership in the Middle East: An analysis of 22 prominent leaders, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2020)

2019

What Influence do Advisory Assembles Have? A Print Media Analysis of the UAE’s Federal National Council, 2011-15, Journal of Arabian Studies (2019)

China and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Confluences Mediterranee (2019)

Chinese Conflict Management in Libya, Syria and Yemen after the Arab Uprisings, Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (2019)

2016

Building Ties across the Green Line: The Palestinian 15 March youth movement in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territory in 2011, Third World Quarterly (2016)

Assessing Palestinian economic exchange across the Green Line, Middle East Critique (2016)

Explaining Beijing’s shift from active to passive engagement in relation to the Arab-Israeli conflict, Sociology of Islam (2016)

2014

Bringing the Centre ‘Centre-Stage’: Defining the Centre in Ideological, Organisation and Policy Terms, Journal of Comparative Politics (2014)

Theorising the State and Globalisation in Education Politics and Policy, Praxis Educativa (2014)

2013

An end to poverty in Brazil? An assessment of the Lula and Rousseff governments’ poverty reduction and elimination strategies, Journal of Policy Practice (2013)

Inclusion or Transformation? An early assessment of an empowerment project for disabled people in occupied Palestine (with Imad Sayrafi and Shatha Abu Srour), Disability & Society (2013)

2012

Hegemony and Frustration: Education policy making in Chile under the Concertación, 1990-2010, Latin American Perspectives (2012)

Flaying Freire? The Workers’ Party and education policy in Brazil 1980-2007, International Review of Education (2012)

The use and limitations of conflict analysis: The case of the UNDP in the occupied Palestinian territory, Conflict, Security & Development (2012)

Hamas and its Vision of Development, Third World Quarterly (2012)

Constraints on Aid Conditionality: The case of the European Commission and the Palestinian Authority, Journal of Global Analysis (2012)

Towards Technocracy? Current education policy in Brazil, Jornal de Politicas Educacionais (2012)

2010

Brazil’s Lost Decade in Education, 1985-1994: How to Account for Reform in the New Republic? Jornal de Politicas Educacionais (2010)

2008

A Textbook for the Left? Providing a framework for left-wing education policies in Latin America, Revista Enfoques Educacionales (2008)

Building Social Democratic Education: Brazilian Governments and Education Policies Since 1985, International Journal of Contemporary Sociology (2008)