Power, Resistance, Ideology and the State

Charles Tripp is Emeritus Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. From 2018 to 2022, he was Vice-President (British International Research Institutes) of the British Academy. From 1995 to 2008 Professor Tripp was also the General Editor of the Cambridge Middle East Studies Series. He is the author of numerous books and articles including 1996: Iran-Saudi Arabia Relations and Regional Order (1996), Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism (2006), A Short History of Iraq (2007), and The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East (2013).



Toby Dodge is Professor of International Relations and Kuwait Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His works include Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and History Denied and Iraq: from War to a New Authoritarianism.



Daniel Neep is non-resident fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University. He is the author of Occupying Syria under the French Mandate: Insurgency, Space and State Formation. His research has been published in International Affairs, New Political Economy, and The Journal of Historical Sociology.



Ali M. Ansari is Professor of Modern History with reference to Iran at St Andrews University. He is the author of works including Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change and The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran.







Contributors:



Hannes Baumann, Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool



Louise Fawcett, Professor of International Relations and Fellow of St Catherine's College, University of Oxford.



Toby Matthiesen, Senior Lecturer in Global Religious Studies at the University of Bristol.



Jamil Mouawad, Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute.



Evaleila Pesaran, College Lecturer and Fellow in Politics and International Relations, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.



Aurora Sottimano, Senior Fellow, Centre for Syrian Studies, St Andrews University.



Benjamin Schuetze, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Freiburg.