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Department of Politics and International Studies

Professor Charles R H Tripp

BA (Oxford) MSc, PhD (London)

Overview

Charles Tripp
Department of Politics and International Studies

Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East

Centre for Palestine Studies (CPS)

Member

Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice

Member

London Middle East Institute (LMEI)

Member

Name:
Professor Charles R H Tripp
Email address:
Telephone:
020 7898 4748
Address:
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office No:
214
Office Hours:
Wednesday 10.30-12.30, 13.30-15.00

Teaching

Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
PhD Students supervised
  • Amir Khnifess, The Collective Action of the Druze in Israel: Between Politics of Accommodation and Politics of Contention
  • Benjamin Schuetze, Unforeseen and Contradictory Consequences of US and European Democracy Promotion in Jordan
  • Ed Marques , Libyan Revolutionary Diplomacy: February to December 2011
  • Edwige Fortier, Negotiating Spaces: How Organisations working with Marginalised Groups Manoeuvre in the Middle East and North Africa
  • James Eastwood, The ethics of Israeli militarism: conflict and confession since 1982
  • James H. Sunday, In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Power, Politics, and Participation in Contemporary Egypt
  • Jamil Mouawad, The Lebanese State: Nature, Existence and Perceptions?
  • Khaled Shaalan, The Political Agency and Role of the Egyptian Upper Middle Class
  • Mark Sedra, Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan and Iraq
  • Marwa Mamdouh Salem, The feeble giant: analysing Egypt's foreign policy towards some African issues
  • Marwa Salem Mamdou, The Feeble Giant: Analysing Egypt’s Foreign policy towards some African issues
  • Najia Mukhtar, Discourses of resistance? Examining spaces of religious tolerance in contemporary Pakistani society.
  • Salam Karam, Constitution-making process in Iraq
  • Silvia Ferabolli, Rethinking the idea of the doomed Arab region
  • Thanos Petouris, The Anti-Colonial Movement in Aden and the Protectorates of South Arabia, 1937-1967

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

Jump to: Authored Books | Book Chapters | Articles

Authored Books

Tripp, Charles (2009) Historia Iraku. Warsaw: Ksiazka i Wiedza.

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 (2006) Sahafat min ta'rikh al-`iraq al-mu`asir. Beirut: Arab Scientific Publishers.

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.

Book Chapters

Tripp, Charles (2012) 'Acting and acting out: Conceptions of political participation in the Middle East.' In: Freeden, Michael and Vincent, Andrew, (eds.), Comparative Political Thought: Theorizing Practices. London: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Comparative Political Thought)

Tripp, Charles (2010) 'West Asia from the First World War.' In: Robinson, Francis, (ed.), The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 336-371. (The New Cambridge History of Islam; Volume 5)

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 (2012) 'The Art of Resistance in the Middle East.' Asian Affairs, 43 (3). pp. 393-409.

Tripp, Charles (2009) 'All (Muslim) Politics is Local.' Foreign Affairs, 88 (5). pp. 124-129.

Tripp, Charles (2002) 'After Saddam.' Survival, vol. 4 . pp. 23-38.

Tripp, Charles (2001) 'Syria: the State and its Narratives [Review Article].' Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 3 . pp. 199-206.

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