Securitisation in the Non-West

Simon Mabon is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Lancaster University, UK, Director of the Richardson Institute, UK, and a Research Associate at the Foreign Policy Centre, UK. He is the author of Saudi Arabia and Iran: Soft Power Rivalry in the Middle East (2013), co-author of Hezbollah: From Islamic Resistance to Government (2015), The Origins of ISIS (2016), and co-editor of Terrorism and Political Violence (2015), amongst a number of other publications pertaining to Middle Eastern politics and International Relations.

Saloni Kapur is currently a PhD candidate at Lancaster University, UK. Her work interrogates international society’s responsibility towards instability in Pakistan. She employs the English school’s concepts of great-power responsibility and regional society to conduct normative research on international counterterrorism cooperation, drawing on aesthetic sources and treating terrorists as social actors.