Research
My research is concerned broadly with the political economy of development in the global South. Specifically, I investigate how states and indigenous social forces produce, manage, and contest ‘development’ projects in the Middle East and North Africa. My earlier archival research on the historical sociology of capitalist development explored this puzzle by documenting how nation-state building projects were shaped not only by the expansion of the capitalist world market and ‘great power imperialism’, but also by the changing forms of domestic property and class relations in the fin de siècle Middle East.
Most recently, I completed a multi-year project on authoritarian neoliberalism in the Middle East, whereby I mapped out the ways in which economic liberalisation policies in Turkey and Egypt have strengthened authoritarian rule. I documented that the two states have increasingly relied on ‘executive centralisation’, and on coercive state apparatuses to marginalise popular mobilisations and socio-economic grievances produced by liberalisation policies.
My current focus is on investigating the subaltern politics of energy transitions and infrastructure development in the Middle East and North Africa, and mapping out the ways in which state-led climate mitigation and adaptation strategies are contested by social forces.
Books ↑
- 2019
[ed.] · Routledge · With Ian Bruff
- 2017States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of Capitalist Order
[ed.] · Rowman & Littlefield International
Research Articles ↑
- 2024
Review of International Studies · Vol. 50, No. 3 · pp. 514–533 · With Lisa Tilley
- 2021
International Political Sociology · Vol. 15, No. 3 · pp. 415–439 · With Sabrina Axster, Ida Danewid, Asher Goldstein, Matt Mahmoudi & Lauren Wilcox
- 2020
New Political Economy · Vol. 25, No. 5 · pp. 791–812
- 2019
Globalizations · Vol. 16, No. 3 · pp. 320–335
- 2019
South Atlantic Quarterly · Vol. 118, No. 2 · pp. 287–305
- 2018
South European Society and Politics · Vol. 23, No. 2 · pp. 197–217
- 2016
Journal of International Relations and Development · Vol. 19, No. 3 · pp. 420–447 · With Andreas Bieler, Sümercan Bozkurt, Max Crook, Peter Cruttenden, Ertan Erol, Adam David Morton & Elif Uzgören
- 2016
Review of International Studies · Vol. 42, No. 3 · pp. 492–512
- 2015
European Journal of International Relations · Vol. 21, No. 1 · pp. 76–100
Special Issues & Symposia ↑
- 2021
[ed.] · International Relations · Vol. 35, No. 1
- 2019
[ed.] · Globalizations · Vol. 16, No. 3 · With Ian Bruff
- 2018
[ed.] · Review of African Political Economy · Vol. 45, No. 155 · With Brecht de Smet
- 2018
[ed.] · South European Society and Politics · Vol. 23, No. 2
Review Articles & Symposium Contributions ↑
- 2021
International Relations · Vol. 35, No. 1 · pp. 147–152
- 2019
Globalizations · Vol. 16, No. 3 · pp. 233–244 · With Ian Bruff
- 2018
Review of African Political Economy · Vol. 45, No. 155 · pp. 85–90 · With Brecht de Smet
- 2018
Review of African Political Economy · Vol. 45, No. 155 · pp. 115–124
- 2015
Development and Change · Vol. 46, No. 3 · pp. 570–584
- 2013
Capital & Class · Vol. 37, No. 2 · pp. 299–307
Book Chapters ↑
- 2026
IPSA Companion to Political Science · eds. D. Stockemer, S. Sawyer & A. Gagnon · Springer · With Rosa Maryon
- 2023
Global Political Economy · ed. N. Phillips · Oxford University Press
- 2018
Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East: Political Encounters after the Arab Spring · eds. H. Işıksal & O. Göksel · Springer · pp. 65–79
- 2017
States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of Capitalist Order · ed. C. B. Tansel · Rowman & Littlefield International · pp. 1–28
- 2017
Tarihsel Materyalizm ve Uluslararası İlişkiler: Temel Tartışmalar ve Kavramlar · ed. F. Yalvaç · İmge
Essays & Commentary ↑
- 2021
Progress in Political Economy
- 2019
Dissent
- 2018
Progress in Political Economy
- 2016
Progress in Political Economy
- 2016
Progress in Political Economy
- 2016
SPERI · With Joe Turner
- 2015
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014
Progress in Political Economy
- 2013
Policy Reports ↑
- 2023
Bond International · With Kipp Mann Benn, John Davies, Neil Gumbs, Gabrielle Joyce, Graham Long & Ayush Poolovadoo