Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: +44-1133439207
School of Politics & International Studies
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
ABOUT
Dr James Worrall, is Associate Professor in International Relations and Middle East Studies, in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.
His research interests lie in the broad fields of Comparative Politics, Security Studies and International Relations with a primary geographical focus on both the Gulf and the Levant.
The thematic focus of his work explores Western relations with the Arab World, Gulf Politics, Society and Security, Regional International Organisations, Counterinsurgency, Rebel Governance, Civil Wars, Post Conflict Reconstruction, and Regime Stability and Legitimacy in non-democratic states.
He has published widely on these, and related, themes in journals such as: International Migration Review, Third World Quarterly, Journal of Strategic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East Policy, Small Wars & Insurgencies and Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
His previous volumes include: Statebuilding and Counterinsurgency in Oman: Political, Military and Diplomatic Relations at the End of Empire (2014/18), International Institutions of the Middle East: The GCC, Arab League, and Arab Maghreb Union (2017), and (with Simon Mabon and Gordon Clubb) Hezbollah: From Islamic Resistance to Government (2015).
Discipline
International Relations/Affairs
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Colonialism
Comparative
Conflict Resolution
Gulf Studies
Security Studies
State Formation
19th-21st Centuries
Historiography
Political Economy
Pedagogy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arabian Peninsula
Oman
All Middle East
Lebanon
UAE
Indian Ocean Region
Mashreq
Specialties
Oman
Sub-state Conflict
Regime Legitimacy And Security
Languages
English (native)
French (fluent)
Spanish (advanced)
Dutch (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Arabic (elementary)
Persian (elementary)
Education
DPhil
| 2008
| School of Politics & International Studies
| University of Leeds
MA (Hons)
| 2004
| School of Politics & International Studies
| University of Leeds
BA
| 2003
| History and Modern Languages
| University of Hull
Abstracts
The Gulf States New Military Adventurism: Nationalism, Regime Security and Coalitions of Identity
Reaction Norms? Understanding Arab League and GCC Interventionism in the Arab Spring
Cycles of Rebirth: Explaining the Survival and Growth of the Arab League
Cyclical Evolution: Explaining the Survival, Decline and Paradoxical Growth of the Arab League
