Biography
Dr Dara Conduit is an Associate Research Fellow in political science at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, where she works on authoritarianism, with a regional focus on the Middle East. Her research interests centre around questions related to contentious politics inside authoritarian regimes, including the myriad interactions between governments and their opponents and their tactical (especially online) innovation.
Her book The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria was published with Cambridge University Press in 2019. She has also been published in journals including Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, the Middle East Journal, Journal of Contemporary China and the British Journal of Middle East Studies.
Dr. Conduit holds a PhD from Monash University, a M. Litt from the University of St. Andrews, was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge in 2015 and has provided advice to the UN OHCHR’s Working Group on Mercenaries. Dr Conduit is a board member of the Syrian Studies Association.
Read more on Dara's profileResearch interests
Authoritarianism, Oppositions and Non-State Actors, Contentious Politics, Foreign Fighters, Cybersecurity, Digital Authoritarianism, Syria and Iran
Publications
Pre-election polling and the democratic veneer in a hybrid regime
D Conduit, S Akbarzadeh
(2020), Democratization, C1
Great power-middle power dynamics: the case of China and Iran
D Conduit, Shahram Akbarzadeh
(2019), Vol. 28, pp. 468-481, Journal of contemporary China, Abingdon, Eng., C1
D Conduit
(2019), Vol. 30, pp. 23-41, Journal of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations, Abingdon, Eng., C1
D Conduit, S Akbarzadeh
(2018), pp. 27-50, Human rights and agents of change in Iran, Singapore, B1
Contentious politics and Middle Eastern oppositions after the uprisings
D Conduit, Shahram Akbarzadeh
(2018), pp. 1-14, New opposition in the Middle East, Singapore, B1
The Iranian reform movement since 2009
D Conduit, Shahram Akbarzadeh
(2018), pp. 119-149, New opposition in the Middle East, Singapore, B1
The patterns of Syrian uprising: Comparing Hama in 1980-1982 and Homs in 2011
D Conduit
(2017), Vol. 44, pp. 73-87, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, C1-1
Rouhani's first two years in office : opportunities and risks in contemporary Iran
S Akbarzadeh, D Conduit
(2016), pp. 1-15, Iran in the world : President Rouhani's Foreign Policy, Basingstoke, Eng., B1
Charting a new course? Testing Rouhani's foreign policy agency in the Iran-Syria relationship
S Akbarzadeh, D Conduit
(2016), pp. 133-154, Iran in the world: President Rouhani' s doreign policy, Basingstoke, Eng., B1
The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the spectacle of Hama
D Conduit
(2016), Vol. 70, pp. 211-226, Middle East journal, Washington, D.C., C1-1
Canada, Australia and New Zealand and the Islamic State
D Conduit, D Malet, L West
(2016), pp. 195-212, New Islamic State, Surrey, Eng., B1
D Conduit, B Rich
(2016), Vol. 18, pp. 431-454, International community law review, Leiden, The Netherlands, C1-1
S Akbarzadeh, D Conduit
(2016), pp. 177-181, Iran in the world : President Rouhani's Foreign Policy, Berlin, Germany, B1
B Rich, D Conduit
(2015), Vol. 38, pp. 113-131, Studies in conflict & terrorism, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
Anticipated Title Sharing Syrian scholarship on ISIS with the Australian public
Dr Dara Conduit
- 2017: $9,945
Women know the Middle East
Dr Dara Conduit
- 2019: $20,000
Industry and Other Funding
For assessing the impact of external actors in the Syrian and Afghan proxy wars
Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh, Dr Dara Conduit, Dr Zahid Ahmed
- 2020: $226,755
- 2018: $344,282
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report