Publikationen
Counter-mapping Complicity
The New Inquiry (2024): Together with Filistin İçin Bin Genç, Rose and El Khazen provide a counter-map of national resistance to Turkish complicity and flows of oil to Israel.Elsewheres of the Unbuilt: The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects
This article delves into the intricate dynamics of global energy infrastructure through major projects such as the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), the Central American Electric Interconnection System (SIEPAC), and the Mediterranean Electricity Ring (MedRing). It examines how these expansive ventures redefine connections across continents, revealing the complex processes of financing, planning, and impact. By exploring their reach and influence, the article highlights how these projects create new transnational publics and reshape global interactions.
Routes to Disruption - Supply Chain Sabotage and Israel’s War on Gaza
MERIP 2024: Aktivisten versuchen durch Sabotage von Lieferketten Israels Militäroperationen in Gaza zu stören. Dieser Artikel beleuchtet die Rolle von US-Flugzeugtreibstoff und historische Vorbilder für diese Widerstandstaktiken.
The Uneven Politics of Decarbonization in the Middle East and North Africa
MERIP 2024: Projekte für erneuerbare Energien im Nahen Osten und Nordafrika stärken bestehende Machtstrukturen. Benjamin Schützes Artikel zeigt, wie autoritäre Eliten und multinationale Konzerne profitieren, während die lokale Bevölkerung oft ausgeschlossen wird. Wichtige Projekte wie das Morocco-UK Power Project verdeutlichen wirtschaftliche Ungleichheiten und neokoloniale Abhängigkeiten.
Supporting plausible acts of genocide: Red lines and the failure of German Middle Eastern Studies
POMEPS (2024): Schuetze discusses the criminalisation of Palestinian identity and Palestine solidarity, red lines faced by Germany-based scholars of Middle Eastern politics, and their role in upholding images of German redemption, innocence and moral authority, while also facilitating support for plausible acts of genocide.
Lehren von der COP28: Freiräume müssen erkämpft werden
Die Klimakonferenz in Dubai war geprägt von verschlossenen Türen und Business-Deals. Staaten, Unternehmen und zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppen nutzten die Konferenz für sich. Aber was kam dabei heraus? Dis:orient war vor Ort.
Facilitating energy flows, containing humans: Authoritarian energy transitions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
TNI (2024): In this longread, Schuetze, El Khazen, Mueller & Wagner explore how, portrayed as a ‘green revolution’, European investments in renewables extract energy and profits, while bypassing local communities, strengthening authoritarian governments, increasing indebtedness and privatising economies.
‘Seizing the Moment’: Arab-Israeli normalization, infrastructure as a means to bypass politics and the promotion of an Israeli-Jordanian transit trade-route
Geopolitics (2024): Schuetze analyzes efforts at Arab-Israeli normalisation in Jordan. Exploring what happens when trade routes stop, the article offers an empirically-grounded discussion of attempts at normalisation via infrastructure as a means to bypass politics.
COP 28: Klimapolitischer Durchbruch oder verdecktes Greenwashing?
dis:orient (2023): Vom 30. November bis 12. Dezember 2023 findet die 28. Weltklimakonferenz in Dubai statt. Vor dem Hintergrund der geopolitischen Spannungen der letzten Monate stellt sich die Frage, welchen Stellenwert Klimapolitik international einnimmt.