On 13 February 2026, we spoke with John Nagle and Tamirace Fakhoury to mark the publication of the latest edition of Ethnopolitics — a special issue on Contesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies, co-edited by John and Simon Mabon, to which Tamirace contributed the article “How Do Semi-Authoritarian Regimes Defeat Uprisings? Lebanon’s 2019 Uprising and the Dramaturgical Performances that the Post-Civil War Regime Plays”.
John is Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast, as well as a Fellow of the Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies. More information about him is available here.
Tamirace joined us from Massachusetts in the United States where she works as Associate Professor of International Politics and Conflict at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. You can find out more about her by following this link.
The articles we discuss in this episode can be accessed for free on our website:
John Nagle and Simon Mabon, “Contesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies”
John Nagle and Cera Murtagh, “Contesting Power-Sharing? LGBTQ+ Activism and the Sexual Citizenship of Consociationalism”
Tamirace Fakhoury, “How Do Semi-Authoritarian Regimes Defeat Uprisings? Lebanon’s 2019 Uprising and the Dramaturgical Performances that the Post-Civil War Regime Plays”
The whole special issue, Contesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies (Ethnopolitics 25(2), 2026), can be accessed here.
John’s 2009 article, “Potemkin Village: Neo-liberalism and Peace-building in Northern Ireland?” (Ethnopolitics 8(2), 2009, 173-190), is available here.
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