Israel’s onslaught against Lebanon may strengthen Hezbollah – just when it’s at its weakest The majority of Lebanese people distrusts Hezbollah, but the Israeli attacks are driving many in the south back into their fold.

My piece on Israel's onslaught and Hezbollah: theconversation.com/israels-onsl...

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online!

🛡️Space, #Security and #SovereignPower: The Case of #Bahrain

🔍 How has Bahrain used space as a tool of securitisation since 2011? l1nq.com/vzmnf3o

✒️@profmabon.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social & John Nagle (Queens University Belfast)

Israel’s war in Lebanon is about far more than Hezbollah. Over 2,100 people have been killed and 1.2 million displaced. This is collective punishment on a national scale. Israel's demand that the Lebanese army disarm Hezbollah by force risks pushing Lebanon to the brink.

Poor Lebanon | The Why Curve The bombs have stopped falling on Iran, but not on Lebanon. Israel is talking to the Lebanese government, but has not let up in its assault on Hezbollah, which...

I spoke on the Why Curve podcast about Lebanon: whycurve.com/episode/poor...

🌐 Join us @ the launch online event of the new Special Issue of The International Spectator

👥 Guest Editors Javier Bordón, @profmabon.bsky.social, in dialogue with @leogoretti.bsky.social, @dhuber.bsky.social and Tamirace Fakhoury

🔗 Info & registration: shorturl.at/8r9zk

Dahiyeh: the Beirut suburb at the heart of an Israeli military doctrine The Israel Defense Forces has used southern Beirut as the template for a tactic of ‘total war’.

With Eduardo Aboultaif, I look at how a Beirut suburb became a “doctrine” — and why it’s invoked in debates about Gaza, urban warfare, and civilian harm: theconversation.com/dahiyeh-the-...

Moral Maze - Is it moral to attack Iran? - BBC Sounds Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.

Last night I recorded an episode of Radio 4’s Moral Maze on whether it is moral to attack Iran. Short answer: it’s not. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Good to see this out. It looks like a tremendous collection of articles.

9/ Across the issue: how protest navigates power-sharing, how regimes manage/perform dissent, and how frames/satire/rights claims open (or limit) political space in divided societies. Thanks to all contributors, reviewers, and the Ethnopolitics team—curious what resonates most.

Navigating the Vortex | Ethnopolitics Edition | Episode 2 Tamirace Fakhoury and John Nagle

8/ Prefer audio? I also did a podcast interview with Tamirace Fakhoury on Navigating the Vortex | Ethnopolitics Edition (Episode 2), talking through the special issue and what it adds to debates on protest + power-sharing in divided societies.
www.navigatingthevortex.com/p/navigating...

Sectarian Identities in Bahrain and Kuwait: Constructing and Contesting the State This paper critically reflects on protest and power sharing in Bahrain and Kuwait. Using the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, the paper looks at the interrelational dynamics of protest a...

7/ Sectarian Identities in Bahrain and Kuwait: Constructing and Contesting the State — Simon Mabon & Mustafa Menshawy. How states shape sectarian identities—and how those identities are also contested and reworked in political life.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Contesting Consociationalism in Bosnia–Herzegovina and Lebanon: Exploring Differences in Protest Frames This paper contributes to theorizing how citizens articulate discontent with consociational politics in divided societies by offering a comparative analysis of protest frames across popular movemen...

6/ Contesting Consociationalism in Bosnia–Herzegovina and Lebanon: Exploring Differences in Protest Frames — Anne Kirstine Rønn. A comparative look at how protest frames critique consociational politics—and how they differ across the two cases.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Contesting Power-Sharing? LGBTQ+ Activism and the Sexual Citizenship of Consociationalism Notwithstanding valuable contributions, the relationship between power-sharing and sexuality remains undertheorized. This paper asks if consociationalism can be seen as a form of sexual citizenship...

5/ Contesting Power-Sharing? LGBTQ+ Activism and the Sexual Citizenship of Consociationalism — Cera Murtagh & John Nagle.
Consociationalism as sexual citizenship: how rights and recognition get structured—and contested (Northern Ireland). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Liberty Leading the People: Satire, the Consociational State and Metapolitical Critique in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina In the winter of 2010, on the two-year anniversary of the first major series of civic protests that followed the end of the Bosnian war, a group of Sarajevan activists put together a curious live s...

4/ Liberty Leading the People: Satire, the consociational state & metapolitical critique in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina — Larisa Kurtović. How satire becomes political critique—spotlighting the logics of consociational rule.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How Do Semi-Authoritarian Regimes Defeat Uprisings? Lebanon’s 2019 Uprising and the Dramaturgical Performances that the Post-Civil War Regime Plays How do semi-authoritarian regimes manage dissent and how does their protest management repertoire deter and spark contention? This paper looks at Lebanon’s post-war system as an instance of authori...

3/ How Do Semi-Authoritarian Regimes Defeat Uprisings? Lebanon’s 2019 uprising & the regime’s dramaturgical performances — Tamirace Fakhoury. How “performances” and protest-management tactics contain dissent—and shape what comes next. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Contesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies This introduction outlines an agenda for research on protest and power-sharing. Power-sharing scholarship has ignored grassroots contentious politics, viewing protest as a threat to the top-down mo...

2/ Contesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies — John Nagle & Simon Mabon (Introduction). We set out the SI's claim: protest isn’t just a “problem” for power-sharing—it’s a key arena where inclusion, reform (and backlash) get contested.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ethnopolitics Protesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies. Guest Editors: John Nagle and Simon Mabon. Volume 25, Issue 2 of Ethnopolitics

1/ Our special issue—Protesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies (co-edited with Simon Mabon)—has now been published in Ethnopolitics: www.tandfonline.com/toc/reno20/c...

On Navigating the Vortex | Ethnopolitics Edition, I talk about the special issue I co-edited with Simon Mabon, and how it frames debates on power sharing and contentious politics in divided societies

Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the numb....

My article on framing irredentism is now out in print in Nations and Nationalism. Drawing on cases including Russia/Ukraine, it examines the ideational frames that drive states to pursue 'lost' lands and peoples.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When Resilience Becomes a Burden: Reflections from Gazan Palestinian Scholars In this essay, Palestinian scholars from Gaza reflect on how Gaza is brought into Western academic spaces since the beginning of the genocide. Over the last two years, academic engagement with Gaza...

In this powerful new article, Gazan scholars—including my PhD student Saga Hamdan—reflect on how the concept of resilience has become a burden that obscures the reality of colonial violence. A must-read for those engaging with Palestine in academia: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When Resilience Becomes a Burden: Reflections from Gazan Palestinian Scholars In this essay, Palestinian scholars from Gaza reflect on how Gaza is brought into Western academic spaces since the beginning of the genocide. Over the last two years, academic engagement with Gaza...

Essay by group of Gazan scholars, including our Khalid Dader @dader-khalid.bsky.social, problematising framings of Gazan resilience, ingenuity and strenght. Highly recommended read.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI...

This paper builds on our 2023 co-edited book "When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic" published by @policypress.bsky.social & the work of its wonderful contributors. #disaster #emergency #resistance #trauma #embodiment #politics
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/when-t...

Contesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies This introduction outlines an agenda for research on protest and power-sharing. Power-sharing scholarship has ignored grassroots contentious politics, viewing protest as a threat to the top-down mo...

Our intro to the 2026 Ethnopolitics special issue on Protest & Power-Sharing is out. It brings together great scholars & cases — Lebanon, Bosnia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Northern Ireland — on how protest & power-sharing interact. Grateful to contributors: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article out now with @smokegatherer.bsky.social and Nasir Almasri on the Palestinian movement and demobilization. We look at the protests of 2021, the unity intifada, and their aftermath on the structure of the movement. Hopefully the 1st of a few articles on this topic

doi.org/10.3167/cont...

"It's not a bubble; it's just frothy" (every finance bro, 2025)

Good news that this edited volume has hit the shelves. Self-promotion klaxon: lovely to see the review quotes describe our chapter as "worth the price of the whole book": brill.com/display/book...

Fantastic to see this highly important book on civic parties and divided societies by a really excellent scholar and author: www.mqup.ca/civic-partie...

John Nagle looks at ideational frames justifying irredentist claims in our next #earlyview article, "Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands & Causes & the National Family" (and neatly sums up the 3 frames in the title!). It's #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Belfast rap group Kneecap defiant ahead of UK terrorism hearing Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara, due in Westminster Magistrates’ Court over alleged Hizbollah flag incident

Financial Times article on upcoming Kneecap trial: www.ft.com/content/8346...