Understanding Sectarianism successfully accomplishes its important purpose of replacing
the unhelpful term 'Sectarianism'with more restrictive and descriptive terms like 'sectarian …

Shia/Sunni sectarianism figures prominently in post‐Arab uprising claims that the Middle
East is witnessing a darker kind of authoritarianism drawing on exclusionary and …

Post-uprisings Middle East politics is frequently described as a 'regional cold war'involving
proxy warfare that emphasises the role of shared identities linking external and local actors …

Informed by a decoloniality lens and referencing motifs such as coloniality of power,
knowledge, and being, this theoretical article analyses and problematises conflict, and …

The purpose of this Special Issue is to examine the nature, causes, and consequences of
the Middle East's current sectarian surge. Specifically, how might sectarianism and regime …

Lebanon is frequently referred to as a model of a plural and stable democracy in the Middle
East: a multi-ethnic and pluri-religious society that guarantees political representation …

The uprisings connected to the Arab Spring have thus far failed to produce social change.
The dynamics of these uprisings instead generated a number of trends that are likely to …

Hostile relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia are a major contributing factor to political
instability in the Middle East. This book argues that rapprochement between Tehran and …

This data study provides the first comprehensive empirical overview of organised violence
across the Shia and Sunni Muslim divide, 1989–2017. We present a conceptual framework …

This article examines key questions of citizen-state, citizen-citizen, and citizen-expatriate
relations in the Arab Gulf states through the lens of the 2017 Qatar blockade. It utilizes …