May Darwich's guest appearances

May Darwich

POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast

Richardson Institute

Chris Phillips

Fanar Haddad

Nader Hashemi

Justin Gengler

Lisel Hintz

Hiba Bou Akar

Jonathan Fulton

Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Wendy Pearlman

Bassel Salloukh

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Sean Yom

Salwa Ismail

Janine Clark

Nathan Brown

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On this week's POMEPS podcast, May Darwich discusses her new book, Threats and Alliances in the Middle East: Saudi and Syrian Policies in a Turbulent Region, with Marc Lynch."The book focuses on how threat perceptions for some states led to particular alliance decisions," said Darwich. "It looks at some historical cases ,but also some more recent cases.""In particular, it's looking at how identity and power into plays in shaping threat perception.""So over time the book also gives an idea of how these processes of identity change. They are very they are very slow in that change, but over time we could see that this interaction between material and identity— it's shaping both how the identity is developing over time, but also the alliance choices made based on threats to identity also shapes how actors evolve and how their roles evolve in the region."Darwich is an assistant professor in International Relations of the Middle East in the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA) at Durham University.Music for this season's podcast was created by Feras Arrabi. You can find more of his work on his Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ferasarrabimusic)and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/feras.arrabi/)page.

On this week's POMEPS podcast, May Darwich discusses her new book, Threats and Alliances in the Middle East: Saudi and Syrian Policies in a Turbulent Region, with Marc Lynch. "The book focuses on how threat perceptions for some states led to particular alliance decisions," said Darwich. "It looks at some historical cases ,but also some more recent cases." "In particular, it's looking at how identity and power into plays in shaping threat perception." "So over time the book also gives an idea of how these processes of identity change. They are very they are very slow in that change, but over time we could see that this interaction between material and identity— it's shaping both how the identity is developing over time, but also the alliance choices made based on threats to identity also shapes how actors evolve and how their roles evolve in the region." Darwich is an assistant professor in International Relations of the Middle East in the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA) at Durham University. Music for this season's podcast was created by Feras Arrabi. You can find more of his work on his Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ferasarrabimusic)and" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ferasarrabimusic)and</a> Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/feras.arrabi/)page" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/feras.arrabi/)page</a>.

Threats and Alliances in the Middle East: A Conversation with May Darwich (S. 8, Ep. 2)

On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with May Darwich, Lecturer in the International Relations of the Middle East at the University of Birmingham. May is the author of Threats and Alliances in the Middle East: Saudi and Syrian Policies in a Turbulent Region, published by Cambridge University Press in 2019, along with a range of articles on contemporary regional politics. On this episode, Simon and May talk about studying IR in Cairo, the French influence, a move to Edinburgh and an extensive discussion about her book, focussing on ideas of 'ontological security'.

SEPADPod with May Darwich