| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Lecturer in Politics |
J dot Franzen at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3861 |
Arts 3.24 |
Johan Franzén joined UEA in 2009 after having finished a PhD in modern Middle Eastern history at the
Dr Franzén’s principal areas of research are modern Middle Eastern history and politics, with a particular focus on the Arab East (the Mashreq), especially Iraq. His main research interests are ideologies and intellectual history, colonialism and British imperial history, nationalism, national identities, imperialism and anti-imperialism, resistance movements and revolutions.
Dr Franzén has carried out extensive research on the modern history and politics of Iraq, especially the development of ideological politics in the 1940s and 1950s. His PhD thesis studied the Iraqi Communist Party (al-Hizb al-Shuyu‘i al-‘Iraqi), tracing its ideological development from its founding in 1934 until its demise as a significant political force when Saddam Husayn came to power in the late 1970s. This research will soon (April 2011) be published by C. Hurst & Co. Publishers as
Dr Franzén is also currently working on a general history of modern Iraq, which will be published as A Modern History of Iraq with the same publisher.
Dr Franzén convenes the following modules:
· PSI-2A31 Introduction to Middle East Politics (2nd year, UG)
· PSI-3A64 Ideology, Culture and Revolution in the Politics of the Middle East (3rd year, UG, 20 credits)
· PSI-3A66 Ideology, Culture and Revolution in the Politics of the Middle East (3rd year, UG, 30 credits)
· PSIIM030 Middle East Politics (PG)
Currently (spring 2011) he also teaches on the following module:
· PSI-1A04 Introduction to International Relations: Past, Present and Future of the International System (1st year, UG)
Dr Franzén supervises 3rd year UG and MA dissertations in areas relating to the Middle East. He welcomes applications from research students wanting to do a PhD on any aspect of the politics and history of the modern Middle East.
Franzén, Johan (2015) Review of The Urban Social History of the Middle East, 1750-1950, by Peter Sluglett (ed.). Reviews in History (829). ISSN 1749-8155
Franzen, Johan (2013) Iraq Ten Years On - Was It Worth It? The Huffington Post.
Franzen, Johan (2012) Where Next for Egypt? The Muslim Brothers and the Ghosts of History. The Huffington Post.
Franzen, Johan (2012) Egypt: Revolution or Reaction? Huffington Post.
Franzen, Johan (2012) The Case Against Military Intervention in Syria. The Huffington Post.
Franzen, Johan (2012) Is Revolutionary Libya turning into Divided Libya? The Huffington Post.
Franzen, Johan (2012) Egypt: The Dawn of an Islamist Future? The Huffington Post.
Franzen, Johan (2012) The Fallacy of the Arab Spring. The Huffington Post.
Franzén, Johan (2011) From Ally to Foe: The Iraqi Communist Party and the Kurdish Question, 1958-75. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 38 (2). pp. 169-185. ISSN 1353-0194
Franzén, Johan (2011) The Problem of Iraqi Nationalism. National Identities, 13 (3). pp. 217-234. ISSN 1460-8944
Franzén, Johan (2010) Losing hearts and minds in Iraq: Britain, Cold War propaganda, and the challenge of communism, 1945-1958. Historical Research, 83 (222). pp. 747-762. ISSN 1468-2281
Franzén, Johan (2009) Review of The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum, by Lawrence Rothfield. Times Higher Education (1,909). p. 48.
Franzén, Johan (2009) Review of Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East, by Nathan C. Funk and Abdul Aziz Said. Times Higher Education (1,889). p. 51.
Franzén, Johan (2009) Development vs. Reform: Attempts at Modernisation during the Twilight of British Influence in Iraq, 1946-1958. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 37 (1). pp. 77-98. ISSN 1743-9329
Franzén, Johan (2008) Education and the Radicalization of Iraqi Politics: Britain, the Iraqi Communist Party, and the “Russian Link”, 1941-1949. International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 2 (1). pp. 99-113.
Franzén, Johan (2007) Communism versus Zionism: The Comintern, Yishuvism, and the Palestine Communist Party. Journal of Palestine Studies, 36 (2). pp. 6-24.
Franzén, Johan (2007) Le Yishouv et le “yishouvisme” avant la création de l'Etat d'Israël: comment le Parti communiste de Palestine est devenu sioniste. Revue d'études palestiniennes, 26 (1). pp. 46-61.
Franzén, Johan (2012) Writing the History of Iraq: The Fallacy of “Objective” History. In: Writing the History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges. World Scientific Publishers/Imperial College Press, pp. 31-45. ISBN 978-9814390552
Franzén, Johan (2009) Fahd, Yusuf Salman Yusuf (1901-1949). In: The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present. Blackwell Publishing, pp. 1159-1160.
Franzén, Johan (2009) Iraq, protest, rebellion, and revolution: overview. In: The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present. Blackwell Publishing, p. 1777.
Franzén, Johan (2009) Iraq, Revolt of 1920. In: The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present. Blackwell Publishing, pp. 1777-1779.
Franzén, Johan (2009) Salam ‘Adel (1924–1963) and the Communist Party, Iraq. In: The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present. Blackwell Publishing, pp. 2953-2956.
Franzén, Johan (2009) Wathbah of 1948. In: The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present. Blackwell Publishing, pp. 3515-3516.
Franzén, Johan (2008) Communism: The Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. In: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, pp. 273-276.
Franzén, Johan (2008) Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque. In: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, pp. 541-542.
Franzén, Johan (2008) Falluja, Iraq. In: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, p. 245.
Franzén, Johan (2008) London Conference. In: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, p. 538.
Franzén, Johan (2011) Revolutionary politics in British Iraq. In: PSI Lecture Series, 2011-12-06, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Franzén, Johan (2010) The Iraqi Communist Party and the “Thawrat Tammuz” of 1958’. In: European Totalitarianism in the Mirrors of Contemporary Arab Thought, 2010-10-06 - 2010-10-08, Beirut. (Unpublished)
Franzén, Johan (2010) The Failure of British Policy towards Iraq, 1945-58. In: Rethinking the Middle East? Values, Interests, and Security Concerns in Western Policies toward Iraq and the Wider Region, 1918-2010, 2010-03-17 - 2010-03-19, British Academy, London. (Unpublished)
Franzén, Johan (2009) The Resilience of Iraqi Nationalism. In: The Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States, 2009-03-18, London School of Economics (LSE). (Unpublished)
Franzén, Johan (2006) Britain and Iraqi Communism, 1920-58: The End of Empire, the Challenge of Anti-Imperialist Nationalism, and the Overthrow of the Hashemite Monarchy. In: The Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, 2006-06-12 - 2006-06-16, Amman. (Unpublished)
Franzén, Johan (2005) Communism versus Nationalism: the Palestine Communist Party during the British Mandate. In: The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) conference, 2005-09-12 - 2005-09-16, Durham. (Unpublished)
Franzén, Johan (2005) The Power of Ideas: The Iraqi Communist Party, 1958-1979. In: The History of the Near and Middle East Seminar, 2005-05-01, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. (Unpublished)
Franzen, Johan (2011) Red Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam. C. Hurst & Co., London. ISBN 1849041016
Franzén, Johan (2011) Red Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam. Columbia University Press, London. ISBN 978-0-231-70230-0
Franzén, Johan (2009) The power of ideas: communism, Iraqism and Pan-Arabism in the ideological formation of the Iraqi Communist Party, 1958-1979. Doctoral thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
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