Biography

I am a Doctoral Candidate having served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the department from 2008 – 2011. My thesis is entitled, Historical Ambitions Meet Contemporary Obstacles: The Salafi Jihadist Challenge to the International System and the Role of US Hegemony.

Before joining the School of Politics in January 2008 I taught as an Adjunct Instructor of Political Science at Piedmont College in the United States and worked in research at various institutions in Washington D.C

Research Interests

• Salafi Jihadism
• Politics of the Middle East
• Religion and international relations
• IR theory
• The role of history in international relations

Publications

Turner, J. (2010) “From Cottage Industry to International Organisation: The Evolution of Salafi Jihadism and the Emergence of the al-Qaeda Ideology,” The Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence 22, no. 4 (October)

Turner, J. (Forthcoming, 2012) “Uncovering an Islamic Paradigm of International Relations,” in C. Flood, H. Nickels, S. Hutchings and G. Miazhevich (eds), Islam in the Plural: Identities, Self Perceptions and Politics (Amsterdam: Brill)

Turner, J. (Forthcoming, 2012) “Untangling Islamism from Jihadism: Opportunities for Islam and the West after the Arab Spring,” Arab Studies Quarterly

Teaching

Previous: Seminar Leader

Comparative Government
The War on Terror
Research Skills and Methods
IR and Globalisation
International Political Economy
Political Theory                      
The International System

Departmental Duties

Undergraduate Seminar Tutor

Representative on the Board of Studies for the Post-Graduate Researchers