Professor Charles R H Tripp
BA (Oxford) MSc, PhD (London)
Overview
Department of Politics and International Studies
(Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East)
Middle East: states and ideologies, war, Islamic political thought
Contact Details
- Name:
- Professor Charles R H Tripp
- Email address:
- ct2@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4748
- Address:
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 214
- Office Hours:
- Weds 11 - 1
Teaching
Students supervised
- Aaron Dunne
- Amir Khnifess
- Hannes Baumann
- James H. Sunday
- Khaled Shaalan
- Mark Sedra
- Sophia Hoffmann
- Thanos Petouris
- Toby Matthiesen
Courses Taught
Research
Middle East: states and ideologies, war, Islamic political thought
Politics and international relations of the Arab States of the Mashreg
Nature of autocracy, the sociology of power in the Middle
Politics of Islamic identity
Expertise
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Available for
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
Regional Expertise
- Near and Middle East
Country Expertise
- Iraq
Languages
- Arabic
- French
Publications
Authored Books
Tripp , Charles (2007) A History of Iraq (3rd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tripp , Charles (2006) Islam and the Moral Economy: the challenge of capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tripp, Charles (2003) Storia dell'Iraq. Bompiani (Italy).
Tripp, Charles (2003) Historia do Iraque. Publicacoes Europa-America (Portugal).
Tripp, Charles (2003) Historia de Iraq. Cambridge University Press (Spain).
Tripp, Charles (2002) Irak - Een Geschiedenis. Bulaaq (Netherlands).
Tripp, Charles (2002) A History of Iraq - Second Edition. Cambridge University Press (UK).
Tripp, Charles (2000) A History of Iraq. CUP.
Tripp, Charles and Chubin, S (1996) Iran-Saudi Arabia Relations and Regional Order. OUP for Int. Institute for Strategic Studies.
Chapters in Books
Tripp , Charles (2008) 'The Security Council and the Iran-Iraq War.' In: Lowe, Vaughan and Roberts, Adam and Welsh, Jennifer and Zaum, Dominik, (eds.), The United Nations Security Council and War. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 368-383.
Tripp, Charles (2007) ''In the Name of the People'. The 'People's Court' and the Iraqi Revolution (1958-1960).' In: Strauss, J. C. and Cruise O'Brien, D. B., (eds.), Staging Politics. Power and Performance in Asia and Africa. I.B. Tauris, pp. 31-48.
Tripp , Charles (2007) 'Islam and the Contingency of Politics.' In: Almquist, Kurt, (ed.), The Secular State and Islam in Europe. Stockholm, Sweden: Axel & Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, pp. 81-96.
Tripp, Charles (2002) 'L'Irak et la guerre de 1948: une image du désordre en Irak.' In: L., E and Shlaim, A, (eds.), La Guerre de Palestine: derriere le mythe 1948. Editions Autrement (France), pp. 119-148.
Tripp, Charles (2002) 'The Foreign Policy of Iraq.' In: Hinnebusch, R and Ehteshami, A, (eds.), The Foreign Policies of Middle East States. Lynne Rienner Publishers (USA), pp. 167-192.
Tripp, Charles (2001) 'Iraq and the 1948 War: Mirror of Iraq's Disorder.' In: Rogan, E.L. and Shlaim, A., (eds.), The War for Palestine. Rewriting the History of 1948. Cambridge University Press, pp. 125-150.
Tripp , Charles (2001) 'States, Elites and the 'Management of Change'.' In: Hakimian, H. and Moshaver, Z., (eds.), The State and Global Change. The Political Economy of Transition in the Middle East and North Africa. Richmond: Curzon, pp. 211-231.
Tripp, Charles (1997) 'Iraq.' In: The Cold War and the Middle East. OUP, pp. 186-215.
Tripp, Charles (1997) 'An ''Islamic Economics''? Problems in the imagined reappropriation of economic life.' In: K, ed, (ed.), Politics and the Ends of Identity. Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot), pp. 155-176.
Articles
Tripp, Charles (2009) 'All (Muslim) Politics is Local.' Foreign Affairs, 88 (5). pp. 124-129.
Tripp, Charles (2002) 'After Saddam.' Survival, vol. 44 (4) . pp. 23-38.
Tripp, Charles (2001) 'Syria: the State and its Narratives [Review Article].' Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 37/2 . pp. 199-206.
