Guillem Farrés-Fernández Author

Ferran Izquierdo-Brichs is a retired professor of international relations at Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research is focused on the sociology of power and the Arab world. He has published numerous articles on these issues, and in recent years the books: Social Mobilization in Morocco: Lessons Learned for a Historically Informed Activism (ibidem Verlag, 2023, with J.L. Mateo Dieste, L. Feliu Martínez and N. Ribas-Mateos), Political Regimes and Neopatrimonialism in Central Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, with F. Serra-Massansalvador), and Communist Parties in the Middle East: 100 Years of History (Routledge, 2019, with L. Feliu).

John Etherington is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Public Law of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He has published on a variety of topics, including nationalism, territorial governance in the European Union, and political Islam. His publications include “Nationalism, Exclusion and Violence: A Territorial Approach”, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 7, 3 (2007); “Nationalism, National Identity and Territory: Jacint Verdaguer and the Catalan renaixença”, Ethnic and Racial Studies 33, 10 (2010); and Political Islam in a Time of Revolt (Springer, 2017, with F. Izquierdo and L. Feliu).

Guillem Farrés-Fernández is a lecturer of international relations at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and a member of the Research Group on International Relations and International Law. He specialises in international conflicts, the theoretical debate in international relations, and the Middle East and North Africa region. His publications include “Reanalysing International Conflicts: Proposals from the Sociology of Power”, International Studies 56, no. 4 (2019): 255–71; and “Security Sector Reform and the Competition for Power in Lebanon”, Contemporary Arab Affairs 12, no. 1 (2019): 39–54.