Larbi Sadiki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larbi Sadiki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larbi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sadiki |
| SIGNATURE | SADIKI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Supreme Council Of Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3777-7046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Interview with Professor Kevin Clements
Professor Kevin Clements is the Director of the Toda Peace Institute and former Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin New Zealand. Prior to taking up these positions he was Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland. He has held many academic peace research and practice appointments around the w…
Interview with Social Activist Shabnam Hashmi
Towards a Critical Democracy Promotion Agenda? Liminal Allyship in EU–Tunisian Relations
This article reflects on the EU's thought and practice of democracy promotion in its Southern neighbourhood through a critical approach to allyship. This approach centres the demos', or Arab publics', yearnings for emancipation and their aspirations to dignified lives. The article proposes the notion of ‘liminal allyship’, neither taken for granted nor stable, but shaped by inequalities of power and resources within (post)colonial settings such a…
Conversation with Prof. Lee Artz, Purdue University Northwest
Since Israel’s war on Gaza in the aftermath of the October 2023 attacks, protests have virtually exploded across the world. We see them in Western countries as much as in the ‘Global South’ and the Arab world. In the US, university campuses have become one site of intense protest activity. For this issue’s Protest Voices section, editors Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh interviewed Professor Artz about his reflections on the pro-Palestine campus enca…
The Gaza War: The Tie that Binds Global Protest
Protest Interview with Prof. Richard Youngs
Protest Interview with Prof. Keiko Sakai, Chiba University
This past spring, Protest editors Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh interviewed Prof. Sakai about how she came to research the politics of the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the changes she has observed in the modes and content of Iraqi protests over the past decades. Prof. Sakai also shared some suggestions for young scholars embarking on the study of the Middle East region and told us a bit about her latest projects on comparative studies and the …
Protest Interview with Nimmi Gowrinathan
Global Protest: A ‘Hunch’ Worth Exploring
Protest Interview with Prof. George Lawson, anu
Degeneration and the demos in North Africa: Towards a 'Critical' Study of Democratisation
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 2011 (and 2019) uprisings and revolutions; second, the breakup of states, particularly those mired in violence (e.g. Libya); and third, setbacks even among states that have to an extent transcended the democratic threshold (e.…
Crisis of Democratisation in the Maghreb and North Africa
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 imperative. A line-up of social scientists comes together to do just that: a focused and in-depth engagement with the problematic of the crisis of democratisation. To this end, the contributors in this Special Issue offer a ‘soft’ …
The Covid-19 pandemic and possibilities for Arab ‘risk society’
Writing’ small states: Contextualizing the construct in the Arab Gulf
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 tries to grapple with issues inherent in such an enterprise by providing a critical assessment of recent scholarship on the topic, with special reference to Qatar and the UAE. The problematic comes to the fore in a context of these…
Tunisia's Peripheral Cities: Marginalization and Protest Politics in a Democratizing Country
This article investigates Tunisia's southern "periphery within the periphery," drawing on original interviews to examine marginalization and center-periphery relations in the country since the 2011 revolution. Comparisons are drawn between the informal economy of cross-border smuggling in Ben Guerdane and the jobless youth of Tataouine being left behind as corporate elites and companies become wealthy from the natural resources extracted from the…
Routledge Handbook of Middle East Politics: Interdisciplinary Inscriptions
"Drawing on various perspectives and analysis, the Handbook problematizes Middle East politics through an interdisciplinary prism, seeking a melioristic account of the field. Thematically organized, the chapters address political, social and historical questions by showcasing both theoretical and empirical insights, all of which are represented in a style that ease readers into sophisticated induction in the Middle East. It positions the didactic…
Routledge Handbook of Middle East Politics
Regionalism in Crisis: GCC Integration without Democracy
At the core of “disembedded regionalism” in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is an incapacity to foster more representative forms of politics that are responsive to citizens. Instead, elite-to-elite relations are a salient feature that characterises Gulf politics. A radical re-reading of Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls, applied to the GCC in the first two decades of the 21st century, confirms that top-down management of politics is conducive to …
The GCC in Crisis: Explorations of ‘Normlessness’ in Gulf Regionalism
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 Issue seeks to fill a void in scholarship by looking at the ongoing crisis through the lens of norms. A hypothesised ‘normlessness’ has taken root: a collapse of (local) guiding principles, some even laid down by member state…
Media-ting democratic literacies
Writing democracy: An end of author ‘turn’?: From ‘fake news’ to ‘fake democratization
This article problematizes questions of ontology and epistemology in the context of the study of norm-making primarily within academia (with special reference to democratization) and secondarily within media. It showcases this via description of an ongoing QNRF-funded project on democratic learning in seven Muslim countries. Through these examples, it pitches the discussion to elaborate the utility of concepts and ideas drawn from post-structural…
Shari‘ah Law and Capitulations Governing the Non-Muslim Foreign Merchants in the Ottoman Empire
Muslim-non-Muslim relations have a long and checkered history. The concept of Siyar (Muslim code governing international-interfaith relations) developed by early Muslim jurists, provided the legal basis for coexistence with ‘foreignness’ and ‘foreigners. Yet, the classical norms of Siyar were seldom strictly implemented by Muslim rulers. Thus, Capitulations, governing the presence and movement of foreign merchants and diplomats in the Ottoman emp…
The Arab Spring: The ‘People’ in International Relations
This chapter examines the Arab Spring and its outcomes from an international relations (IR) perspective by offering a revisionist interpretation that emphasizes the importance of the interactions of civic (peaceful/ruly) and non-civic (violent/unruly), top-down and bottom-up, state and non-state, local and global manifestations of political behaviour. The Arab Spring is generally regarded as a local phenomenon of ‘street politics’ with no connect…
Democratic Knowledge' and Knowledge Production: Preliminary Reflections on Democratisation in North Africa
The Post Arab Spring Reform: The Maghreb at a Cross Roads
The Arab Spring, which was launched in Tunisia, took the Arab Middle East by storm. Its results, to varying degrees, have been felt in every country in the region. In the Maghreb, three scenarios have been unfolding. Tunisia has seen the greatest changes with the country maneuvering its transition to democracy. Algeria - whose aims have not necessarily been a genuine transition to democracy, but to keep the status quo - has continued its process …
The Search for Citizenship in Bin Ali's Tunisia: Democracy versus Unity
Commitment to unity can hinder democracy, rendering the search for pluralism into an exercise in political singularity. I contest the thesis within the theory of democratic transition that national cohesion and ethnic homogeneity are essential preconditions for democracy. Tunisia is an ethnically homogeneous society, but seems to be unable to seize on the opportunity to transcend the threshold of democracy. The Tunisian example suggests that demo…
Political Liberalization in Bin Ali's Tunisia: Façade Democracy
In considering political liberalization in post-Bourguiba Tunisia since 1987, it is hard to argue the case for the reforms initiated by his successor, President Bin Ali, without noticing their limitations and even contradictions. In a world characterized by increasing democratization, the Tunisian example seems to buck the global trend, despite several noteworthy achievements - periodic elections, licensed political parties, sustained economic gr…
Popular Uprisings and Arab Democratization
This paper proposes that domestic political conflict presents opportunities for positive change with long-term effects despite the “inherent plausibility” of its harmfulness. This position is tested using examples of Arab bread riots in the context of the wave of Arab democratizations over the past twenty years. Although generally guided and controlled, Arab political liberalizations (especially those of Sudan, Algeria, and Jordan) have their roo…
Bin Ali's Tunisia: Democracy by Non-Democratic Means
The article tackles one principal question: Can the current dicing with democracy in Tunisia serve as a harbinger for good governance when it is founded on exclusionary political practices. It argues that Bin Ali's reforms represent yet another phase in the reproduction of hegemonic political practice which is about control not democratic power sharing. The article's analytical agenda is two-fold. Firstly, it will critically assess the nature of …
Towards a 'democratic knowledge' turn? Knowledge production in the age of the Arab Spring
This contribution (and the special issue as a whole) marks a modest attempt to initiate an investigation into what is called here ‘democratic knowledge’. This is done with special reference to the Arab Maghrib (in this instance Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt). This focus is deliberate. In the wake of the Arab Spring it is apposite to shed light on the potentiality of a ‘democratic turn’. Perhaps no other phenomenon equals the emerging…
Tunisia's Peripheral Cities: Marginalization and Protest Politics in a Democratizing Country
This article investigates Tunisia's southern "periphery within the periphery," drawing on original interviews to examine marginalization and center-periphery relations in the country since the 2011 revolution. Comparisons are drawn between the informal economy of cross-border smuggling in Ben Guerdane and the jobless youth of Tataouine being left behind as corporate elites and companies become wealthy from the natural resources extracted from the…
Reframing resistance and democracy: Narratives from Hamas and Hizbullah
There is no model of politics without violence and no violence without a vision of the political, democratic and non-democratic. This article investigates how this claim applies to the case studies of Hamas and Hizbullah. More specifically, it looks at the archaeology of violence practised by both organizations in the name of Islamic resistance (muqawamah), examining its moral and politico-religious foundation and lineage as well as demotic impul…
Writing’ small states: Contextualizing the construct in the Arab Gulf
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 tries to grapple with issues inherent in such an enterprise by providing a critical assessment of recent scholarship on the topic, with special reference to Qatar and the UAE. The problematic comes to the fore in a context of these…
The Post Arab Spring Reform: The Maghreb at a Cross Roads
The Arab Spring, which was launched in Tunisia, took the Arab Middle East by storm. Its results, to varying degrees, have been felt in every country in the region. In the Maghreb, three scenarios have been unfolding. Tunisia has seen the greatest changes with the country maneuvering its transition to democracy. Algeria - whose aims have not necessarily been a genuine transition to democracy, but to keep the status quo - has continued its process …
Towards Arab liberal governance: From the democracy of bread to the democracy of the vote
In most theoretical treatments civil strife and domestic political conflict are commonly thought to be deconstructive and negative. As Gurr points out 'most Western students of conflict from Burke to Sorokin to Huntington have assumed that widespread violent conflict is intrinsically undesirable'.' Yet no messengers (from Christ to Muhammad), no leaders (from Bolivar to Ghandi), and no revolutionaries (from Lenin to Mao to Mandela) ushered in new…
Towards a Critical Democracy Promotion Agenda? Liminal Allyship in EU–Tunisian Relations
This article reflects on the EU's thought and practice of democracy promotion in its Southern neighbourhood through a critical approach to allyship. This approach centres the demos', or Arab publics', yearnings for emancipation and their aspirations to dignified lives. The article proposes the notion of ‘liminal allyship’, neither taken for granted nor stable, but shaped by inequalities of power and resources within (post)colonial settings such a…
Degeneration and the demos in North Africa: Towards a 'Critical' Study of Democratisation
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 2011 (and 2019) uprisings and revolutions; second, the breakup of states, particularly those mired in violence (e.g. Libya); and third, setbacks even among states that have to an extent transcended the democratic threshold (e.…
Crisis of Democratisation in the Maghreb and North Africa
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 imperative. A line-up of social scientists comes together to do just that: a focused and in-depth engagement with the problematic of the crisis of democratisation. To this end, the contributors in this Special Issue offer a ‘soft’ …
Discoursing 'democratic knowledge' & knowledge production in North Africa
North Africa (interchangeably used with the term ‘Maghrib’) has historically featured as a contributor to Euro-Med cultures and civilisations. Mesopotamia, Egypt and Phoenicia all at one point in time or another mediated processes of infusion, inclusion and diffusion of ‘learning’. The flow was not one-way. The ‘travel’ of ideas left lasting inscriptions on the region's cultural map. As North Africa enters its ‘democratic’ and ‘revolutionary’ mom…
Libya’s Arab Spring: The Long Road from Revolution to Democracy
This article presents a critical account of Libya’s incipient democratization, contextualizing it within the Arab Spring élan. This first line of inquiry is twofold: it critically assesses the meaning of democratization in the context of the Arab Middle East (AME), and briefly considers issues related to democratic knowledge and the Orientalist–Occidentalist inputs into this debate. Then, it situates this debate within the ‘Arab Spring’, looking …
The Palestinian Uprising, Bread Riots and Arab Democratisation
In most theoretical treatments civil strife and domestic political conflict are interpreted as deconstructive and negative, as exemplified by Gurr 1980, p. 239 . Yet no messengers from Christ to Muhammad , no leaders from Bolivar to Gandhi , and no revolutionaries from Lenin to Mao to Mandela ushered in new orders and ideas without conflict. Whether viewed diachronically or synchronically, humankind's history is the history of conflict. However, …
The Palestinian Uprising, Bread Riots and Arab Democratisation
In most theoretical treatments civil strife and domestic political conflict are interpreted as deconstructive and negative, as exemplified by Gurr 1980, p. 239 . Yet no messengers from Christ to Muhammad , no leaders from Bolivar to Gandhi , and no revolutionaries from Lenin to Mao to Mandela ushered in new orders and ideas without conflict. Whether viewed diachronically or synchronically, humankind's history is the history of conflict. However, …
Towards Arab liberal governance: From the democracy of bread to the democracy of the vote
In most theoretical treatments civil strife and domestic political conflict are commonly thought to be deconstructive and negative. As Gurr points out 'most Western students of conflict from Burke to Sorokin to Huntington have assumed that widespread violent conflict is intrinsically undesirable'.' Yet no messengers (from Christ to Muhammad), no leaders (from Bolivar to Ghandi), and no revolutionaries (from Lenin to Mao to Mandela) ushered in new…
Popular Uprisings and Arab Democratization
This paper proposes that domestic political conflict presents opportunities for positive change with long-term effects despite the “inherent plausibility” of its harmfulness. This position is tested using examples of Arab bread riots in the context of the wave of Arab democratizations over the past twenty years. Although generally guided and controlled, Arab political liberalizations (especially those of Sudan, Algeria, and Jordan) have their roo…
Bin Ali's Tunisia: Democracy by Non-Democratic Means
The article tackles one principal question: Can the current dicing with democracy in Tunisia serve as a harbinger for good governance when it is founded on exclusionary political practices. It argues that Bin Ali's reforms represent yet another phase in the reproduction of hegemonic political practice which is about control not democratic power sharing. The article's analytical agenda is two-fold. Firstly, it will critically assess the nature of …
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The Search for Citizenship in Bin Ali's Tunisia: Democracy versus Unity
Commitment to unity can hinder democracy, rendering the search for pluralism into an exercise in political singularity. I contest the thesis within the theory of democratic transition that national cohesion and ethnic homogeneity are essential preconditions for democracy. Tunisia is an ethnically homogeneous society, but seems to be unable to seize on the opportunity to transcend the threshold of democracy. The Tunisian example suggests that demo…
Political Liberalization in Bin Ali's Tunisia: Façade Democracy
In considering political liberalization in post-Bourguiba Tunisia since 1987, it is hard to argue the case for the reforms initiated by his successor, President Bin Ali, without noticing their limitations and even contradictions. In a world characterized by increasing democratization, the Tunisian example seems to buck the global trend, despite several noteworthy achievements - periodic elections, licensed political parties, sustained economic gr…
Rethinking Arab Democratization
This book unpacks and historicizes the rise of Arab electoralism, narrating the story of stalled democratic transition in the Arab Middle East. It provides a balance sheet of the state of Arab democratization from the mid-1970s up to 2008. In seeking to answer the question of how Arab countries democratize and whether they are democratizing at all, the book pays attention to specificity, highlighting the peculiarities of democratic transitions in…
Rethinking Arab Democratization: Elections without Democracy
Preface Introduction 1. Rethinking Democratization in the Arab Context 2. Mapping out Arab Electoralism, 1998-2007 3. Elections without Democracy: The False Starts, 1975-1997 4. The Greater Middle East Initiative: A US Democracy Promotion 'Road Map'? 5. Catalysts from Below: Transition and 'Bread Riots' 6. Al-Jazeerah and the Internet as Sites of Democratic Struggle 7. Conclusions
Reframing resistance and democracy: Narratives from Hamas and Hizbullah
There is no model of politics without violence and no violence without a vision of the political, democratic and non-democratic. This article investigates how this claim applies to the case studies of Hamas and Hizbullah. More specifically, it looks at the archaeology of violence practised by both organizations in the name of Islamic resistance (muqawamah), examining its moral and politico-religious foundation and lineage as well as demotic impul…
Libya’s Arab Spring: The Long Road from Revolution to Democracy
This article presents a critical account of Libya’s incipient democratization, contextualizing it within the Arab Spring élan. This first line of inquiry is twofold: it critically assesses the meaning of democratization in the context of the Arab Middle East (AME), and briefly considers issues related to democratic knowledge and the Orientalist–Occidentalist inputs into this debate. Then, it situates this debate within the ‘Arab Spring’, looking …
Democratic Transition in the Middle East: Unmaking Power
Preface 1. The Void of Power and the Power of the Void: Arab Societies' Negotiation of Democratic Faragh Larbi Sadiki 2. Citizens of the Void Power-Sharing and Civic Political Action in Lebanon Heiko Wimmen 3. Trans-Sectarian Moral Protest against Occupation: A Case Study of Iraq Khalil Osman 4. The Fragmentation of Shaykh-Murid Relationships: Power Voids and Democratization of Religious Sufi Authority in Bahrain Muhammed al-Zekri and Britta Rudo…
Democratic Transition in the Middle East: Unmaking Power
Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies
The Arab Middle East has entered a moment of revolution, inevitable counterrevolution, and transition. Integral to this moment is a dialectical dynamic in which the formal and the informal conjugate, through unsettled tension and interaction between endless forces, voices and discourses; bid to re-imagine community; and seek to pin down their idealized community to preferences in terms of morality, polity, society and intellectual artefacts, incl…
The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Gulf Cooperation Council
It is apposite to interrogate the notion of ‘monarchical exceptionalism’ when testing the idea that the ‘Arab Spring’ has not affected the so-called ‘ruling bargain’ in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The Arab Spring élan is presented in this paper as the sole dynamic with attributes of ‘exceptionalism’. It constitutes a moment of history that continues to rock the decaying pan-Arab body politic to its foundations, be it in varying degrees. I…
Discoursing 'democratic knowledge' & knowledge production in North Africa
North Africa (interchangeably used with the term ‘Maghrib’) has historically featured as a contributor to Euro-Med cultures and civilisations. Mesopotamia, Egypt and Phoenicia all at one point in time or another mediated processes of infusion, inclusion and diffusion of ‘learning’. The flow was not one-way. The ‘travel’ of ideas left lasting inscriptions on the region's cultural map. As North Africa enters its ‘democratic’ and ‘revolutionary’ mom…
Towards a 'democratic knowledge' turn? Knowledge production in the age of the Arab Spring
This contribution (and the special issue as a whole) marks a modest attempt to initiate an investigation into what is called here ‘democratic knowledge’. This is done with special reference to the Arab Maghrib (in this instance Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt). This focus is deliberate. In the wake of the Arab Spring it is apposite to shed light on the potentiality of a ‘democratic turn’. Perhaps no other phenomenon equals the emerging…
The Arab Spring: The ‘People’ in International Relations
This chapter examines the Arab Spring and its outcomes from an international relations (IR) perspective by offering a revisionist interpretation that emphasizes the importance of the interactions of civic (peaceful/ruly) and non-civic (violent/unruly), top-down and bottom-up, state and non-state, local and global manifestations of political behaviour. The Arab Spring is generally regarded as a local phenomenon of ‘street politics’ with no connect…
Democratic Knowledge' and Knowledge Production: Preliminary Reflections on Democratisation in North Africa
The Post Arab Spring Reform: The Maghreb at a Cross Roads
The Arab Spring, which was launched in Tunisia, took the Arab Middle East by storm. Its results, to varying degrees, have been felt in every country in the region. In the Maghreb, three scenarios have been unfolding. Tunisia has seen the greatest changes with the country maneuvering its transition to democracy. Algeria - whose aims have not necessarily been a genuine transition to democracy, but to keep the status quo - has continued its process …
Shari‘ah Law and Capitulations Governing the Non-Muslim Foreign Merchants in the Ottoman Empire
Muslim-non-Muslim relations have a long and checkered history. The concept of Siyar (Muslim code governing international-interfaith relations) developed by early Muslim jurists, provided the legal basis for coexistence with ‘foreignness’ and ‘foreigners. Yet, the classical norms of Siyar were seldom strictly implemented by Muslim rulers. Thus, Capitulations, governing the presence and movement of foreign merchants and diplomats in the Ottoman emp…
Media-ting democratic literacies
Writing democracy: An end of author ‘turn’?: From ‘fake news’ to ‘fake democratization
This article problematizes questions of ontology and epistemology in the context of the study of norm-making primarily within academia (with special reference to democratization) and secondarily within media. It showcases this via description of an ongoing QNRF-funded project on democratic learning in seven Muslim countries. Through these examples, it pitches the discussion to elaborate the utility of concepts and ideas drawn from post-structural…
Routledge Handbook of Middle East Politics: Interdisciplinary Inscriptions
"Drawing on various perspectives and analysis, the Handbook problematizes Middle East politics through an interdisciplinary prism, seeking a melioristic account of the field. Thematically organized, the chapters address political, social and historical questions by showcasing both theoretical and empirical insights, all of which are represented in a style that ease readers into sophisticated induction in the Middle East. It positions the didactic…
Routledge Handbook of Middle East Politics
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