Publications

Books

Mandatory Development: French Colonial Empire, Global Capitalism and the Politics of the Economy after World War One.
Mandatory Development: French Colonial Empire, Global Capitalism and the Politics of the Economy after World War One.

Under contract with Cornell University Press.

The Institution of International Order: From the League of Nations to the United Nations.
The Institution of International Order: From the League of Nations to the United Nations.

co-edited with Alanna O'Malley (Routledge, 2018). See Twitter for the book here.

Edited journal issues

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East Special Issue: The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East Special Issue: The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed.

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 39, no. 1 (May 2019)

Humanity Journal Special Issue: Transformative Occupations in the Modern Middle East.
Humanity Journal Special Issue: Transformative Occupations in the Modern Middle East.

Humanity Journal 8, no. 2 (2017).

Edited collections

Personal Connections and Regional Networks: Cross-Border Ford Automobile Distribution in French Mandate Syria.
Personal Connections and Regional Networks: Cross-Border Ford Automobile Distribution in French Mandate Syria.

 

in Jordi Tejel, Ramazan Hakkı Öztan eds., Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022)

Mandatory Expertise After the League of Nations Mandates: Interconnections and New Directions.
Mandatory Expertise After the League of Nations Mandates: Interconnections and New Directions.

 

in Philippe Bourmaud, Norig Neveu and Chantal Verdeil, eds., 'EXPERTS ET EXPERTISE DANS LES MANDATS DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES NATIONS : FIGURES, CHAMPS, OUTILS' (Paris: Presses de l'Inalco, 2020), pp. 333-358.

Compassion and Connections: Feeding Beirut and Assembling Mandate Rule in 1919.
Compassion and Connections: Feeding Beirut and Assembling Mandate Rule in 1919.

 

in Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan eds., The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates (Routledge: 2015).
Global Recruitment: the Wartime Origins of French Mandate Syria.
Global Recruitment: the Wartime Origins of French Mandate Syria.


in Ludivine Broch and Alison Carrol eds. France in an era of Global War 1914-1945: Occupation, Politics, Empire and Entanglements (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014).

Articles

The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed: From Joyriding to Jamming, and from Racing to Raiding.
The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed: From Joyriding to Jamming, and from Racing to Raiding.

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 39, no. 1 (May 2019)

From Beirut to Berlin (via Geneva): The New International History, Middle East Studies and the League of Nations.
From Beirut to Berlin (via Geneva): The New International History, Middle East Studies and the League of Nations.

Contemporary European History, July 2018, 1–19. doi:10.1017/S0960777318000231.

Imperial Humanitarianism and Transformative Development in Syria-Lebanon, 1915-1925.
Imperial Humanitarianism and Transformative Development in Syria-Lebanon, 1915-1925.

Humanity Journal 8, no. 2 (2017), 247-268.

Transformative Occupations in the Modern Middle East.
Transformative Occupations in the Modern Middle East.

Humanity Journal 8, no. 2 (2017), 231-246.

The phosphate archipelago: Imperial mining and global agriculture in French North Africa.
The phosphate archipelago: Imperial mining and global agriculture in French North Africa.

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook. Volume 57, Issue 1, Pages 187–214, DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2016-0009, May 2016

Diaspora Politics and Developmental Empire: The Syro-Lebanese at the League of Nations.
Diaspora Politics and Developmental Empire: The Syro-Lebanese at the League of Nations.

Arab Studies Journal, Vol. 21 No. 1, (Spring 2013), 166-190.

The ‘Huvelin Mission’: economic morality and the French imperial project in the Mashriq, 1919-1920..
The ‘Huvelin Mission’: economic morality and the French imperial project in the Mashriq, 1919-1920..

Monde(s): histoire, espaces, relations, (4), Vol. 2 No. 4 (Fall 2013), 83-103.

Reviews

H-France: 'Économie et Développement Durable: Héritage Historiques et Défis Actuels au sein du Monde Francophone' edited by Dominique Barjot and Thi Hoai Trang Phan
H-France: 'Économie et Développement Durable: Héritage Historiques et Défis Actuels au sein du Monde Francophone' edited by Dominique Barjot and Thi Hoai Trang Phan

H-France Review Vol. 18 (July 2018), No. 152

Women's History Review: French Women and the Empire, by Marie-Paule Ha.
Women's History Review: French Women and the Empire, by Marie-Paule Ha.

DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2014.992295

La Vie des Idées: La République impériale : politique et racisme d’État by Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison.
La Vie des Idées: La République impériale : politique et racisme d’État by Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison.

Simon Jackson, « Liberté, égalité, fraternité… empire », La Vie des idées, 22 juin 2009. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Liberte-egalite-fraternite-empire.html

Books & Ideas: Interlopers of Empire, by Andrew Arsan.
Books & Ideas: Interlopers of Empire, by Andrew Arsan.

Simon Jackson, « Not Quite White? The Lebanese of West Africa », Books and Ideas, 13 April 2015. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : http://www.booksandideas.net/Not-Quite-White-The-Lebanese-of-West-Africa.html

Online articles

100 Years of Greater Lebanon.

History Today, 3 September 2020

Why is the United Nations still so misunderstood?

The Conversation, 6 October 2016, co-written with Alanna O Malley

(Auto)-Mobility in the Global Middle East - Part 2.

Jadaliyya E-Zine, Cities Page, 22 February 2016

(Auto)-Mobility in the Global Middle East - Part 1.

Jadaliyya E-Zine, Cities Page, 9 February 2016

Universities at the Crossroads

I have co-edited, with Ann Thomson and Stefan Nygard, a series of short articles in The Conversation on the history of the relationship between universities, states and markets. March 2015.

Arming the Kurds builds on long history of proxy warfare in the Middle East

The Conversation, 16 September 2014.

Islamic State only the latest group to fill vacuum left by long Ba'athist retreat in Syria.

The Conversation, 20 August 2014.

As France mourns plane crash victims, Hollande consolidates military might in Africa.

The Conversation, 29 July 2014.

New Texts Out Now: Simon Jackson, 'Diaspora Politics and Developmental Empire: The Syro-Lebanese at the League of Nations'

Jadaliyya, 8 May 2013.

La Syrie et l’action international (in French).

Huffington Post France, 15 December 2012.  Written with Giorgio Potí.

Other

Bailleux, Julie, “How Europe became Law: The First International Academic Conference on the ECSC (Milan-Stresa, 1957)”..

Revue française de science politique (english), 2010/2 Vol. 60, p. 67-90.
Translation

Braconnier Céline and Dormagen, Jean-Yves, “Does an ethnic divide structure voting behaviors in working-class neighborhoods?”..

Revue française de science politique (english), 2010/1 Vol. 60, p. 113-138.
Translation