• The Arab spring is not lost: Moral protest as the embodiment of a new politics 

      Sadiki, Larbi; Saleh, Layla ( Taylor & Francis , 2019 , Book chapter)
      This chapter explores the “Arab Spring” popular Uprisings sweeping the MENA region since late 2010 to posit moral protest as a dynamic of new politics “from below.” It begins with a conceptualization of bottom-up “protest ...
    • Crisis of Democratisation in the Maghreb and North Africa 

      Sadiki, Larbi; Saleh, Layla ( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Other)
      Democratisation in revolutionary times matters to academia and to our social world. Reflecting on the urgent scholarly need among students of Arab and Middle Eastern politics to address the crisis of democratisation is ...
    • Degeneration and the demos in North Africa: towards a ‘critical’ study of democratisation? 

      Sadiki, Larbi; Saleh, Layla ( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Article)
      This article frames the problematic explored in the Special Issue, namely, the Maghreb and North Africa's ‘crisis of democratization.' Across cases, the crisis is multi-layered, involving first, counter-revolution since ...
    • The GCC in Crisis: Explorations of ‘Normlessness’ in Gulf Regionalism 

      Sadiki, Larbi; Saleh, Layla ( Taylor & Francis , 2020 , Article)
      In a field that is so loosely theorised, an investigation into intra-GCC conflict is both apposite and challenging. Empirically, interventions by Gulf states have proliferated across the GCC and MENA since 2011. This Special ...
    • (Muslim) Woman in Need of Empowerment: US foreign policy discourses in the arab spring 

      Saleh, Layla ( Routledge , 2016 , Article Review)
      Why, in the current geo-political and strategic context seemingly in stark contrast to the "War on Terror," does the emphasis on women in US foreign policy persist? Why the repeated references to the vulnerability of women ...
    • Re-visioning Germany's democracy promotion in the Arab World 

      Sadiki, Larbi; Saleh, Layla ( GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies , 2022 , Article)
      This article briefly investigates German democracy promotion in the Arab world since the 2011 popular uprisings and revolutions. It seeks a parsimonious discourse analysis, looking at Germany's "democracy-promotion speak" ...
    • Rethinking unsustainability in Tunisia's sustainable development 

      Sadiki, Larbi; Saleh, Layla ( GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies , 2020 , Article)
      This article problematises sustainable development in Tunisia through the lens of regional (under)development. Decades of accumulated imbalances between the country's coastal (Sahel) and southern/interior regions stand as ...
    • The Tunisian experience post-2011: The crisis of democratization 

      Sadiki, Larbi; Saleh, Layla ( Taylor and Francis , 2023 , Book chapter)
      Offering a critical counter-narrative that upends the received wisdom about Tunisia’s fledgling democracy, the analysis here challenges existing literature on Tunisia’s democratization since the 2011 revolution, eschewing ...
    • US hard power in the Arab world: Resistance, the Syrian uprising and the war on terror 

      Saleh, Layla ( Taylor and Francis , 2016 , Book)
      Neither stability nor change in the post-colonial Arab world can be fully understood without considering the international context, and American Foreign policy in particular. However, the exact nature of America's presence ...
    • ‘Writing’ small states: contextualizing the construct in the Arab Gulf 

      Sadiki, Larbi; Saleh, Layla ( Springer Nature , 2021 , Article)
      How do IR scholars ‘write’ the Arab Gulf? In attempting to address this question, the focus is twofold: first, the ‘small state’ as a construct and second, its application to the study of Gulf small states. The article ...