PhDs awarded
2025
2024
2023
2022
Dr Berikbol Dukevey: ' The Politics of Memory and History Production of the Soviet Past in Kazakhstan (1992-2019)'
Dr Jon Norling: 'The United States and Iraq: Limited Influence in an Asymmetrical Relationship 2005-2014'
Dr Xiaoli Guo: 'Converging Interests Differing Motives: Understanding and Explaining China-Turkey Relations 2002-2018'
2021
2020
2019
Dr Katlyn Quenzer: 'Writing the Resistance: A Palestinian Intellectual History, 1967-1974'
2018
Dr Sebastian Klich: 'Normative Standing: De Facto State Identity and International Legitimation'
2017
Dr Shuhrat Baratov: 'Hero-making as ontological security practice: Tajikistan's identity politics and relations with Uzbekistan'
Dr Aminat Chokobaeva: The role of the 1916 'Great Revolt' of Central Asia in shaping national identity in Soviet and post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Dr Yahya Haider: The debates between Ash’arism and Māturīdism in Ottoman religious scholarship.
Dr Caroline Ladewig: The Middle East Peace Process: Reconciliation through education
Dr Jessie Moritz: Slick Operators: Revising Rentier State Theory for the modern Arab Gulf States.
Dr Tome Vangelovski: 'Macedonia: Ethno-Religious Conflict (1991-2016)'
Dr Elisabeth Yarbakhsh: 'Placing hospitality: Iranian citizens and Afghan refugees in the city of Shiraz'
2016
Dr Aly Zaman: The Domestic Impact of Patron-Client State Relationships: American Patronage and Pakistan’s Political Economy during the Cold War.
Dr Brenton Clark: The Islamic Republic of Iran's relations with the Republic of Tajikistan in the post-Soviet period.
Dr Adrian D'Hage: The Influence of Religion on US Foreign Policy in the Middle East.
2015
Dr Adel Abdel Ghafar: The Political Economy of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising
Dr Bruce Gerard (Jerry) Nockles: The Fifteen Years Crisis, Iraq 1988-2003: A study of foreign policy elite norms as an analytical lens on decision-making
2014
Dr Nematullah Bizhan: Afghanistan: Foreign aid and state-building (2001-2009)
Dr Lee Schrader: The Middle East Peace Process: The politics of the Quartet
2013
Dr Raihan Ismail: The Education of the Ulama in Saudi Arabia
Dr Faizal Kasmani: BBC and Al Jazeera Coverage of Islam and Democracy: A study of the Iran 2009 election
2012
Dr Christian Bleuer: The fault lines of violent conflict in Tajikistan
Dr Grigol Ubiria: From Tribes to Modern Nations: Soviet Nation-Building in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Dr Erika Schwarze: Palestinian Public Opinion Polling: The Impact of the People’s Voice on Decision-Making in a Transitional Democracy
2011
Dr Bruce Drummond: Armed Sub-State Actors and Fragile States: Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea
Dr Victoria Kelly-Clark: Clan Power Structures in Central Asia
Dr Penelope Kinch: The United States and Iran: Identity and Alliances in Middle Eastern Sectarian Conflict
Dr Barry Naughten: U.S. Foreign Energy Policy and Grand Strategy Choice: The Challenge of Global and Regional Systemic Crises
2010
Dr Justin Leach: Comparison of Sudan’s post-independence peace accords
Dr Wendy Levy: The Politics of Governance in Post-war Sudan: problems and prospects of a unified state
Dr Hamish McGregor: Nationalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran 1979-2007
Dr Richard Scrivener: Australian Iranian relations and the Australian US alliance: 1979 to 2003
2008
Dr Abdulaziz M. Al-Wasil: Human rights in Saudi Arabia
Dr Shayeq Qassem: The Geostrategic Dynamics of Central Asian and South Asian Regions and Prospects for Stability in Afghanistan
2007
Dr Sarah Phillips: The Resilience of Authoritarianism in a Pluralised Arab State: A Case Study of Yemen
2006
Dr Abu T.S. Ahmed: The Kashmiri Muslims Uprising of 1990: A Causal Study
Dr Yousuf Ali Humaid Al-Suwaidi: Court Management in Dubai between Present Challenges and Future Opportunities
2005
Dr Kees van der Spek: Political Economy and Social Relations of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna and Dr Abu el-Naga, Egypt
2004
Dr Matthew May: Economic transition in Central Asia: a comparative approach
Dr Douglas Sturkey: The Arab-Israel dispute during the Clinton administration: the limits of American Power
Dr Enayatollah Yazdani: US policy towards central Asia since the collapse of the Soviet Union: changing objectives, priorities, and means
2003
Dr Rizwan Hussain: Pakistan and the emergence of Islamic militancy in Afghanistan: a politico-historical analysis
Dr Khalifa Al-Falasi: The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf: United Arab Emirates-Oman axis
2002
Dr Mariam Al-Oraifi: Saudi Policy Behaviour Towards Iran: An Analysis of the Saudi-Iranian Relationship Since the British Withdrawal from the Gulf Region
2001
Dr Abdullah Al-Rashoud: Satellite Broadcasting & National Development: Relevance to Saudi Arabia
Dr Bob Bowker: UNRWA: Memories, Mythologies and the Palestinian Refugee Issue
Dr Aileen Keating: The Raj in Arabia and Frank Holmes, Father of Oil
Dr Matthew Webb: The right to secede and the case of Kashmir: a critical evaluation of contemporary normative theories of secession
2000
Dr Steven Barraclough: Responses to satellite television in Pakistan, Iran and Egypt
Dr Daryl Champion: Twilight of a Rentier State. Saudi Arabia and the Momentum of Reform
Dr Matthew B Gray: The relationship between economic liberalisation and tourism in the contemporary Middle East: a comparative political economy study of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan
Dr Bruce Koepke: The Impact of Political Islam on Cultural Practices in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, during the Taliban Era
1999
Dr Jetly Rajshree: Ethnicity and nation-building in South Asia: case studies of the Baluch movement in Pakistan and the Khalistan movement in India
1998
Dr Mikhail Alexandrov: Relations between Russia and Kazakhstan in the post-Soviet era (1992-1997)
Dr Mohammad Reza: Saidabadi Iranian-British Relations Since 1979
1997
Dr Kirill Nourzhanov: Politics and change in Tajikistan
Dr Kamran Taremi: Iran and the Middle Eastern security complex: challenge and response, 1979-1980
1992
Dr Latif Abul-Husn: The Lebanese Conflict: a Sociological Study of its Causes and Resolution
1991
Dr Ralph King: Egypt's Foreign Policy in the Decade after Camp David: An Interpretation
MPhil awarded
2010
Anne-Sophie Gintzburger: The Sources in Variation in the Application of Shari'a-Compliant Finance Contracts: A Comparative Analysis of Shari'a Scholars, Shari'a Board Roles, and Regulatory Variations in Malaysia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States