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Cover of POMEPS SI on 'The War on Gaza and Middle East Political Science'

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.
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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.

Warum wir über Autoritarismus sprechen müssen – und zwar anders

dis:orient (2023): Autokratie, Militarisierung, demokratisches backsliding – diese Konzepte werden viel zu gerne auf WANA-Länder und Staaten des Globalen Südens angewandt. Ausgeblendet wird dabei der wachsende antidemokratische Rechtspopulismus in der EU.

Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring

Middle East Critique (2023): Schuetze investigates how violence and exclusion are embedded within the Mediterranean electricity ring project, revealing how local violence connects with transregional electricity flows. His analysis exposes the project's dual nature: promoting sustainable energy integration while also reinforcing Eurocentric exclusion and colonial violence against Arab populations and Mediterranean refugees.

Lieferdienste boomen, ihre migrantischen Arbeiter treten in den Streik

dis:orient (2023): Elia El Khazen schreibt über libanesische Lieferdienstarbeiter:innen, die gegen die lokale Liefer-App Toters streiken, die systemische Ausbeutung im Rahmen des Kafala-Systems aufdecken und gleichzeitig durch gegenseitige Hilfsnetzwerke und anhaltende Proteste Widerstand aufbauen.
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The geopolitical economy of an undermined energy transition: The case of Jordan

Energy Policy (2023): In this article, Schuetze & Hussein argue that Jordanian efforts at energy transition have increasingly been undermined since 2019, reinforcing both authoritarian practices and dependence on fossil fuels and Israel.
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Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state

Globalizations (2023): The introduction to the special issue focuses on authoritarian practices and their spatial and temporal articulations in (1) transregional infrastructures, (2) global processes of capital accumulation and (3) nature-society relations.