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Accepted, With Engin Koch, “Turkey’s ‘Active Neutrality’ in the Ukraine War: The Black Sea Grain Initiative from July 2022 to July 2023”, Insight Turkey, 2026.
“The Power of Capital: How GCC Sovereign Wealth Funds are Shaping Defence Industries,” Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Policy Report, 27 August 2026.“EU Policy Towards the Sahel in the “Post-West” Era,” New Perspectives, 5 July 2026, With Ali Bakir, Ash Rossiter, and Tobias Muller, “Beyond Import Dependence: Defence Industry localisation Strategies in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States” , Defence and Security Analysis , October 2025.
“From ‘Relative Autonomy’ to ‘Relational Autonomy’? A Reappraisal of GCC State-Building and Foreign Policy” , Journal of Arabian Studies , May 2025.“President Trump’s Return to “Maximum Pressure” Against Iran” ORIENT, Vol. II, 2025.“Power and Competition in the Transitions towards Post-Rentierism: The Cases of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates “, Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES), 33(3), Summer 2024. “Small State Adaptation: The Case of the United Arab Emirates and South America” , with Paulo Cesar Rebello, Global Policy , April 2024. “Challenges of Transnational Education in the Global South: The Case of Egypt” , Contemporary Arab Affairs., March 2024. “Urbanism, Climate Change and the Public Utility of Greening Cairo,” Middle East Journal , 2023. “UK Policy towards the GCC States Post-Brexit: Influence, Adaptations, Impact” , Gulf Monographic Series at Qatar University, March 2023.
“Germany – GCC Relations: Continuities, Priorities and Atlanticism, ORIENT, Vol. II, 2022.
“Strategic Depth Through Enclaves: Iran, Syria and Hezbollah” , Middle East Policy, Fall 2021.Guest editor for special issue “Greater Mediterranean as a Regional Security Complex” , Vestnik RUDN, International Relations (Russian scientific journal in IR) of RUDN University (Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia), Vol. 3, 2021.
“Russia in Syria: An Unequivocal Return to the Middle East? “, Middle East Policy, Winter 2018/19.
“The Syria Conflict and the Euro-Med Refugee Crisis: An Opportunity to Enhance the Common Foreign and Security Policy” , European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 23, Issue 1, February 2018.“Breaking the Mould of Small State Classification? The Broadening Spheres of UAE Foreign Policy through Effective Military and Bandwagoning Strategies” , Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Vol. 24, 2018. “Enhancing South Sudan’s Prospects Through Advancing an Ambitious National Security – Development Agenda”, Africa Policy Journal, Vol. XIII, Harvard Kennedy School.
“A Reassessment of the European Neighbourhood Policy: Extending the Limits of Regional Conceptualisation and Approach”, ORIENT, Vol. I, 2018, pp. 31-39.
“ Caution Gives Way to Increasingly Assertive Policies in Saudi Arabia but to What End?” , Harvard Journal of Middle East Politics and Policy, (November 2016)“Egypt’s Future: Status Quo, Incremenal Growth or Regional Leadership?” , Middle East Policy , Vol. XXIII, No. 2, (June 2016)“China’s Impact on the International Relations of Sub-Sahara Africa: What Lessons for Other Non-Traditional Actors?” , Third World Quarterly, (February 2016): 84-96“US, EU and Russian Middle East Policy: Failures, Interests and Reconciliation” , German Journal for Politics, Economics and Culture of the Middle East (ORIENT), Vol. IV, (2015)“Patterns and Consequences of Economic Engagement Across Sub-Sahara Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese, British and Turkish Policies” , LSE Working Paper (2015)“Back to Realism for the Promise of an Enduring US – Saudi Relationship” , Middle East Policy, Vol. XXI, No. 4, (Winter 2014)“Security and Development in Afghanistan: Rivalry, Reconciliation and Reconstruction” , Journal of Central Asian & Caucasian Studies, Vol. 9 (17), Summer 2014, (English and Turkish)“The Omani Pursuit of a Large Peninsula Shield Force: A Case Study of a Small State’s Search for Security”, British Journal of Middle East Studies, (October 2014): 355-367 “The Price of Peace: A Re-evaluation of the Economic Dimension in the Middle East Peace Process” , Middle East Journal, Vol. 67, No. 3, (summer 2013): 405-425“Russian Middle East Policy: A Function of “Reset” with the US or a New Cold War? ” The Maghreb Review , Vol. 37, No. 3-4, (2012)
