Professor Clive Jones

Chair of Middle East Studies and International Politics

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Before coming to Leeds in 1995, I taught at the University of Wales Aberystwyth where I received my PhD and in 2002, I was senior visiting research fellow in the Department of Political Science, University of Haifa.

In 2011, I was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society.

Research Interests

The emphasis of my research is on security identities and foreign policy across the Middle East - with a particular focus upon Israel and the Gulf States - and how these have shaped the process of state formation and legitimacy across the region.

As such, my work is interdisciplinary, drawing upon both archival material and more contemporary sources and methodologies to understand the often complex interplay between actors – both state and non-state - that shapes the political contours of the region.

Teaching

I teaching on the following modules:

International Politics
Israel: Politics and Society
Contemporary Politics of the Middle East

PhD Supervision

Subject to capacity, I am happy to supervise promising research students in the following areas:

Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Middle East
Insurgency, Intelligence and state legitimacy
Israeli politics and society
Gulf Security Dilemmas

Key Publications

Single-authored Books

Jones, C. (2004/2010) Britain and the Yemen Civil War 1962-1965 Brighton: Sussex Academic Press.
Jones, C. (1996) Soviet Jewish Aliyah: Impact and Implications for Israel and the Middle East London: Frank Cass.

Co-authored Books

Jones, C. (with Emma C. Murphy) Israel: Challenges to Democracy, Identity and the State (London: Routledge, 2002), pp.145.

Edited Books

Jones, C. (with Sergio Catignani) Israel and Hizbollah: An Asymmetric Conflict in Historic and Comparative Perspective (London: Routledge, 2010), pp.202.
Jones, C. (with Ami Pedahzur) Between Terrorism and Civil Wars: The Al-Aqsa Intifada (London: Routledge, 2005), pp.151.

Journal Articles

‘Good Friends in Low Places: The British Secret Intelligence Service and the Jewish Agency 1940-1945’, Middle Eastern Studies 48/3 (2012).
‘The Tribes that Bind: Yemen and the Paradox of Political Violence’, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 34/12 (2011), pp.902-916.
‘Military Intelligence, Tribes, and Britain’s War in Dhofar 1970-1976’, The Middle East Journal, 65/4 (2011), pp.557-574.
‘ The Writing on the Wall: Israel, the Security Barrier and the Future of Zionism’, Mediterranean Politics, 14/1 (2009), pp.3-20.