Dr James Worrall

Dr James Worrall is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Studies in the School of Politics & International Studies, University of Leeds.

Research Interests

Dr Worrall’s research interests lie in the fields of Security Studies and International Relations and include: Western relations with the Arab World, Gulf Politics and Security, Regional International Organisations, Decolonisation, Counterinsurgency Strategy, Security Sector Reform: particulalrly Policing, Regime Stability and Legitimacy in non-democratic states and Diplomatic theory and practice.

He also has an interest in sub-state conflict and is currently reviews editor for the academic journal Civil Wars.

Teaching:

Current Undergraduate Courses

2nd year International Organisations & World Order, 3rd year Dirty War: Insurgency, The State & Cities, 3rd year Political Corruption, 3rd year Political Violence.

At Postgraduate Level

Conflict, Complex Emergencies and Global Governance, Insurgency, Policing Post Conflict Cities, Contemporary Politics of the Middle East, Hezbollah: From Islamic Resistance To Government, and Contemporary Issues in Nuclear Non-Proliferation and WMD.

Publications:

Books

Worrall, J.E., Statebuilding and Counterinsurgency in Oman: Political, Military and Diplomatic Relations at the End of Empire (London: IB Tauris, 2014).

Worrall, J.E., Mabon, S.P. and Clubb, G.C., Hezbollah: From Islamic Resistance To Government (Santa Barbara, CA.: Praeger, 2015).

Worrall, J.E., International Institutions of the Middle East: The GCC, Arab League and Arab Maghreb Union (London: Routledge, 2017).

Journal Articles

Worrall J.E. and Duyvesteyn IGBM., ‘Global Strategic Studies: A Manifesto’, Journal of Strategic Studies (2017)

Worrall J.E., ‘The Missing Link? Police and Statebuilding in South Arabia’, Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 53, No. 1, (2017), pp.19-34.

Worrall J.E. and Assi A.F., ‘Stable Instability: The Syrian Conflict and the Postponement of the 2013 Lebanese Parliamentary Elections’, Third World Quarterly Vol. 36, No. 10, (2015), pp.1944-1967.

Worrall, J.E. and Saleh, A.B., ‘Between Darius and Khomeini: Exploring Iran’s National Identity Problematique’ National Identities Vol. 17, No.1 (2015), pp.73-97.

Worrall, J.E., ‘Reading Booth In Beirut: Is Hizbollah An Emancipatory Actor?’, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism Vol. 36, No. 3 (2013), pp.235-254.

Worrall, J.E., ‘Oman: The ‘Forgotten Corner’ of the Arab Spring’, Middle East Policy Vol. 19, No. 3 (2012), pp.98-115.

Book Chapters

Worrall J.E., ‘The Model Counterinsurgency: Dhofar, 1962-1975′, In Freemont-Barnes, G. (ed.) A History of Counterinsurgency – Two Volumes (Santa Barbara, CA.: Praeger, 2015).

Worrall J.E., ‘Protest and Reform: The Arab Spring in Oman’, In The Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring: Rethinking Democratisation (London: Routledge, 2015).

Worrall J.E., ‘Transitioning In and Out of COIN: Efficiency, Legitimacy and Power in Oman’, In Johnson, R. and Clack T. (eds.) At the End of Military Intervention: Historical, Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Transition, Handover and Withdrawal (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Worrall, J.E., ‘Bringing The Soil Back In: Control and Territoriality in Western and Non-Western COIN’ in Celeste Ward Gventer, David Martin Jones and M.L.R Smith (eds.) The New Counter-insurgency Era in Critical Perspective (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Worrall J.E., ‘The Evolution of Non-Traditional Approaches to Security’ In Zengeni, K. (eds.) International Relations (Pearson Longman, 2013).

Worrall, J.E., ‘The British Historical View of Oman and Ibadism’ in Michaela Hoffman-ruf and Abdulrahman Al Salimi (eds.) Oman and Overseas (New York/Zurich: Olms, 2013).

Worrall, J.E., ‘Britain’s Last Bastion In Arabia: The End Of The Dhofar War, The Labour Government And The Withdrawal From RAF Salalah And Masirah, 1974-1977’ Tore T. Petersen (ed.) Challenging Retrenchment In The Middle East, 1950-1980 (Rostra Series, Trondheim: Tapir Academic Press, 2010), pp.115-140.