Ilyas Saliba

Working Papers (work in progress)

• "Killing them softly? Assessing Pre-emptive Repression in Russia and Egypt"  – with Ed Stoddard (University of Portsmouth)
• "Neutralization through Reform? Constitutional Reforms in Morocco 2011 and the Legitimacy of Contested authoritarian Regimes"
• "Commander of the Faithless: Challenging the myth of monarchical religious legitimacy in Morocco" – with Yasmina Abouzzohour (University of Oxford) 

Papers submitted for peer-review

• "Share It or Lose It? Authoritarian Power-Sharing and Regime Stability in Multi-Ethnic States." – with Yannick Pengl (ETH Zürich)

Journal Articles

• "Free Research in Fearful Times: Conceptualising an Index to Monitor Academic Freedom" - with Jannis Grimm (Freie Universität Berlin) in: Inter-disciplinary Political Studies (forthcoming)
• "Change or Charade? Morocco's constitutional reform process 2011" in: ORIENT German journal for Politics, Economics and Culture of the Middle East, vol. 3, 2016, pp. 50-55 – link to Journal website

Contributions to Edited Volumes

• “Dilemmata der Gleichzeitigkeit” - with Wolfgang Merkel in: Handbuch zur Transformationsforschung, Raj Kollmorgen, Wolfgang Merkel, Hans-Jürgen Wagener, 2015, pp 517-526, VS Verlag – available online (german only)
• "The dilemma of simultaneity." - with Wolfgang Merkel, forthcoming in: Oxford Handbook of Transformation, Oxford University Press.
• “Security of the Public Sphere: Meeting place in an area of tension between control, freedom and democracy.” - with Jonas Hagmann in: Bulletin zur Schweizer Sicherheitspolitik 2013 – available online (german only)

Policy Briefs

• No Rivals to the King. The Limits to Political Reform in Morocco's "Enlightened Authoritarianism" with Isabelle Werenfels in: SWP Comments 2017/C 17, May 2017 – available online (in german and english)

Book Reviews

• "Die neuen Staatsfeinde. Wie Helfer syrischer Flüchtlinge in Deutschland Kriminalsiert werden." Buchen, Stefan 2014 Online rezension beim Alsharq Blog
• “Europäische Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik – Anspruch oder Wirklichkeit?“ Volker Epping, Christiane Lemke, Alim Baluch (Edts.), Berlin (LIT Verlag), in S+F. Sicherheit + Frieden. Security + Peace, volume 4/2011; p. 292-4 
• “Geheimdienste in Europa - Transformation, Kooperation und Kontrolle” Thomas Jäger, Anna Daun (Edts.), Wiesbaden (VS Verlag), in S+F. Sicherheit + Frieden. Security + Peace, volume 2/2011; p. 137-8 
• “The Afghanistan Challenge: Hard Realities & Strategic Choices” Hans-Georg Ehrhart / Charles C. Pentland (Edts.), McGill Queens University Press in S+F. Sicherheit + Frieden. Security + Peace, volume 2/2010; p. 124-5

Analysis and Blog posts (selection)

• "Der Schwindende Mythos der Facebook Revolution" at Qantara - available online
• "Europe's misguided applause for Morocco's reform process" at Open Democracy - available online
• "False solidarity. Military adventures in Syria are morally wrong and not effective." – with Jannis Grimm at the IPG Journal in international politics - available online (german only)
• ​"A Plea for Diplomacy" piece on Syrian civil war and a potential way forward at the LSE Middle East Blog with Niklas Kossow - available online
• "Der Sommer des Palasts. Marokkos Monarchie erstickt die Demokratie mit Reformen" - available online (german only)
• "The Tunisian path. Challenging second phase of the transition" - available online (german only)
• "The Securitisation of Stability and the Demise of the Arab Uprisings" at the LSE Middle East Blog - available online
• “Prospects for the Middle East – Democratization & the Arab Spring” in the science category of the IFAIR think tank – available online