May Darwich

May Darwich is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Birmingham, with specialization in the Middle East. Her research is situated at the intersection of International Relations Theory and Global IR, and examine how the Middle East — its transregional entanglements with the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa — function as a site of theory production, rather than merely an empirical domain. Her research focuses on identity politics, threat perception and alliance politics, foreign policy behaviour, infrastructural power, and explores how material and ideational dynamics shape international behaviour in the Global South.