Dr G Teti

Dr G Teti

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Biography

Andrea Teti is Senior Associate Editor of Middle East Critique, previously holding visiting positions at the GramsciLab (Università di Cagliari, 2018-19), the University of Ghent (Middle East & North Africa Research Group, 2018) and ACCESS Europe Visiting Fellow at the University of Amsterdam (2015-16). He was ArabTransformations Project Leader (2015-16), Trustee of the British Society for Middle East Studies (2019-22) now serving on its Committee on Academic Freedom, and is co-Founder/Co-Chair of the Critical Middle East Studies network.

His research is on EU-Middle East politics, publishing widely on democratization, Egyptian politics and political theory (e.g. Constructivism, Orientalism). His analyses are considered leading exemplars of Constructivism and of Poststructuralism in Middle East Studies, including innovative Critical Discourse Analyses of EU policy towards the Middle East (2012, 2013, 2015) and critiques of orthodox models of Democratization. His work on the Area Studies Controversy is widely cited, featuring on syllabi worldwide. He was co-editor of Informal Power in the Greater Middle East (2014) and as Arab Transformations Project Director, he oversaw the production of 21 Working Papers, 11 Policy Briefs, contributing to most of these and co-authoring two EU Briefs (Perceptions of Democracy, Development and the EU, 2014; Social Cohesion, 2016).

Recent publications include Democratization vs Democracy (2020), The Arab Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan (2018), work on corruption (2017), the role of youth in the Uprisings (2018) and conceptions of democracy in Arab countries (2019).

Dr Teti appeared on international media (e.g. BBC, Al-Jazeera English, France24, Canada's CBC, Australia's SBS, Deutsche Welle, Italy's RAI) and contributes to OpenDemocracy and The Conversation, featuring on Newsweek, Middle East Report, The Scotsman, To Vima, Il Manifesto, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Minima et Moralia, Lavoro Culturale, Reuters Egypt, Egypt Independent etc.

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

University Working Group on Research Integrity (2018-19)
REF Impact Case Coordinator & Case Study Author, Department of Politics & International Relations (2017-21)
School Disabilities Officer (2018+)
Consortium Director, Arab Transformations Project (€2.49m, EU FP7, 2015-2016)
Director, Centre for Global Security and Governance (2013-2015)
Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Violence doctoral cluster (2010-2014)
Overseas Exchange Co-ordinator, Non-EU & Erasmus (Aberdeen, 2008-18)

External Memberships

2021+: Senior Associate Editor, Middle East Critique
2019+: Committee for Academic Freedom, British Society for Middle East Studies
2019+: External Examiner, University of Exeter, MA in International Relations of the Middle East
2019-2022: Trustee, British Society for Middle East Studies
2017-20: External Examiner, University of Leeds, BA & MA in Arab, Islamic, and Middle East Studies
2019-21: Associate Editor, Middle East Critique
2017-19: Grant Assessor & Board of Assessors, Research Incentive Grants (AHSS), Carnegie Endowment for the Universities of Scotland
2016-19: Board of Editors, Middle East Critique

Latest Publications

Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations: A Reassessment
2022 - Accepted/In press
Teti, A., Abbott, P.
PS: Political Science & Politics
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096522001378
Gramsci’s ‘Southern Question’ and the Egyptian Revolution: Intellectuals, Disruption and Subalternity
2022 - Accepted/In press
Teti, G. A., Gervasio, G.
Review of African Political Economy
Contributions to Journals: Articles
Strangers in Plain Sight: Conceptions of Democracy in EU Neighbourhood Policy and in Public Opinion across North Africa
2022 - Published
Abbott, P., Teti, A.
The Journal of North African Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 691-713
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2021.1923011
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/16383/2/Abbott_etal_TJNAS_Stangers_In_Plan_VoR.pdf
Perceptions of the EU: Activists and public opinion in the Middle East
2021 - Published
Teti, A., Gervasio, G., Abbott, P.
Routledge Handbook of EU–Middle East Relations. Bouris, D., Huber, D., Pace, M. (eds.). 1 edition. Routledge
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
- [ONLINE] https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-EUMiddle-East-Relations/Bouris-Huber-Pace/p/book/9780367330767#
Ferocious and Fragile: Egypt and the Myth of ‘Authoritarian Stability’
2021 - E-pub ahead of print
Gervasio, G., Teti, A.
States, Actors and Geopolitical Drivers in the Mediterranean. Corrao, F., Redaelli, R. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 203-218, 16 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
- [ONLINE] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-69000-7_8

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Research

Research Overview

Democracy, democratization, democracy-promotion: especially EU and UK democracy assistance towards the Middle East
Middle Eastern Politics: Egypt, democracy & authoritarianism, civil society, labour movements, Israel/Palestine
IR Theory/Political Theory: Poststructuralism, Foucault, Deleuze, Debord, Gramsci, Constructivism

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Philosophy, Politics and International Relations.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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Philosophy

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Politics and International Relations

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Research Specialisms

International Relations
European Union Politics
Social Theory
Modern Middle Eastern Studies

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Collaborations

Fellow, Centre for Modern Thought (CMT)
Fellow, Centre for Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL)
Centre for Global Security and Governance (CGSG)

Funding and Grants

2018: Visiting Fellowship, University of Cagliari and GramsciLab
2018-23: Co-Applicant, EU Marie Curie COFUND, ‘POLITICO’ €2.8m
2018: Faculty of Social and Political Studies mobility award, University of Ghent, €4,500
2017: Global Challenges Research Fund, University of Aberdeen, £5,103
2017: Knowledge Transfer and Exchange, University of Aberdeen, £9,800
2015-16: ACCESS Europe, University of Amsterdam, €5,000
2013-16: Scientific Lead, Arab Transformations Project, Funded under the EU's Framework Programme 7 (€2.49m, SSH-2012, grant number 320214)
2013-14: PI, Carnegie Trust, "Paradoxes of Western Democracy-promotion in the Middle East: Conceptions of Democracy in Donors and Recipients"
2012-13: AHRC, Transition Paradigms and Policy-making, co-PIs Dr. Jeroen Gunning (King’s College London) and Dr. Vivienne Matthies-Boon (Amsterdam), £25,575
2011-15: Co-PI, University of Aberdeen, College of Arts & Social Science (RPAS), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Violence programme

Teaching

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate and Masters

I teach various courses on IR theory and Middle East politics at both undergraduate and graduate levels. I am currently co-ordinator for Middle Eastern Politics (Honours), Global Politics from the Middle East (Honours) and teach on the core course Theories and Ideologies of Politics and International Relations.

Doctoral Research Supervision

Areas of Supervision:

I am interested in supervising undergraduate or graduate research projects in the following areas:

Middle East politics (e.g. International Relations of the Middle East, impact of globalisation, political & economic liberalisation, democratisation, foreign policies of major powers towards the region, etc.)
Political Theory / IR Theory (particularly Foucault, Deleuze, Debord and Gramsci)
Democracy, Democratization, Authoritarianism

Current Research Students:

Marie Wuth (POLITICO, Centre for Civil Society and Rule of Law, with Beth Lord)
Domenico Carolei (Centre for Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), with Mátyás Bodig and Trevor Stack)
Saerom Han (Centre for Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), with Cristina Flesher Fominaya)
Matthieu Angevin (Philosophy, with Beth Lord)
Mustafa Khedewi (PIR, Arab Transformations Project)
Lotje van Uhm (PIR)
Bisrat Kabeta, Centre for Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL)

Former Research Students:

Dr Ludwig Bucholz (2018) (Centre for Modern Thought, with Eddie Campbell)
Dr Sarah Hynek (2018) (Comparative Constitutionalism and Statecraft, with Johan Rasanayagam)
Dr Hanifi Baris (2017) (Centre for Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), with Tamas Gyorfi and Trevor Stack)
Dr Kandida Purnell (2017), Teaching Fellow, University of Aberdeen, 2017-18; Lecturer, City University, 2018+
Dr Anna Grudzinska, Centre for Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), (with Karin Friedrich and Trevor Stack)
Dr Ulisses Pereira Terto Neto (2015, with Trevor Stack and Matyas Bodig; Lecturer, IESB, Brazil)
Dr Stuart Maltman (2016)
Dr Alessandro Rippa (2015, with Martin Mills) Research Fellow, University of Munich, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Asian Studies, University of Colorado (Boulder)
Dr Samantha May (with Martin Mills); Leverhulme Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Aberdeen

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Dr G Teti

Biography

Memberships and Affiliations

Latest Publications

Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations: A Reassessment

Gramsci’s ‘Southern Question’ and the Egyptian Revolution: Intellectuals, Disruption and Subalternity

Strangers in Plain Sight: Conceptions of Democracy in EU Neighbourhood Policy and in Public Opinion across North Africa

Perceptions of the EU: Activists and public opinion in the Middle East

Ferocious and Fragile: Egypt and the Myth of ‘Authoritarian Stability’

Research Overview

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

Philosophy

Politics and International Relations

Research Specialisms

Collaborations

Funding and Grants

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate and Masters

Doctoral Research Supervision

Areas of Supervision:

Current Research Students:

Former Research Students:

Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations: A Reassessment

Gramsci’s ‘Southern Question’ and the Egyptian Revolution: Intellectuals, Disruption and Subalternity

Strangers in Plain Sight: Conceptions of Democracy in EU Neighbourhood Policy and in Public Opinion across North Africa

Perceptions of the EU: Activists and public opinion in the Middle East

Ferocious and Fragile: Egypt and the Myth of ‘Authoritarian Stability’

No Bread, No Freedom, No Social Justice: How EU-Egyptian Human Rights Discourse Undermines Democracy

Why Tunisians are still out on the streets: a decade after the ‘Dignity Revolution’

Prelude to the revolution: Independent civic activists in Mubarak’s Egypt and the quest for hegemony

Rethinking Confession

Egypt’s Repression Against Civil Society

Democratisation against Democracy: How EU Foreign Policy Fails the Middle East

The tide that failed to rise: Young people’s politics and social values in and after the Arab uprisings

Confession and Avowal in Foucault’s early work, 1954-1972

Tunisians head for the polls amid dimming faith in democracy

Youth, Civil Society and Socio-Economic News: New Avenues for Euro-Arab Cooperation

Beyond elections: perceptions of democracy in four Arab countries

The EU’s Partnership with the Southern Mediterranean: Challenges to Cohesion and Democracy

Corruption, Trust, Inclusion and Cohesion in North Africa and the Middle East

Al-Sisi poised for empty victory in Egypt as signs of unrest grow across the region

Tunisia is back on a knife edge – here’s why

The Arab Uprisings in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia: Social, Political and Economic Transformations

Challenges of Doing Public Opinion Survey Research in the MENA

Egypt’s predictable tragedy: more instability, attacks to come

Giulio Regeni e le Ragioni della Giustizia

Iraq after ISIS: Continued conflict or rebuilding beyond ethno-sectarian identities?

Perceptions of EU Foreign Policy in the MENA Region

What do people in the Arab countries want?: Conceptions of democracy

Iraq must now rebuild itself – and that means fixing its dreadful governance

Public disgust over corruption threatens stability in Middle East and North Africa

Arab Publics Continue to See Women as Second-Class Citizens

Against the tide: why women's equality remains a distant dream in Arab countries

Arab Transformations Survey Data

Arab Transformations Longitudinal Data base

Sunni Islam and Islamism

The EU's policy response to the Uprisings

Why Egypt is a case study for the West in how not to safeguard democracy

Democracy Without Social Justice: Marginalization of Social and Economic Rights in EU Democracy Assistance Policy after the Arab Uprisings

Egypt's government by bullying

Egypt's Government by Baltaga

Verdict in Al Jazeera trial shows regime’s contempt for press freedom in Egypt

Sisiphus: A Brittle System With No Prospect of Reform

Egypt prepares to hail former army chief

Egypt prepares to hail former army chief as president – once the election is out of the way

In Egypt, El-Sisi’s victory may be short-lived

Europe’s elites are more like Berlusconi than you think

Orientalism as a form of Confession

Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies

Introduction: Crossing the formal/informal boundary

Egypt and the Arab Uprisings

Disciplinary Politics of Civil Society and Democracy

When Informal Powers Surface: Civic Activism and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

I segreti inconfessabili del golpe democratico

I Fratelli Musulmani e la Rivoluzione di Gennaio

Confessions of a Dangerous (Arab) Mind