Publications
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Leaking Imperialism: Tracing gas flows sustaining the settler occupation of Palestine
TNI long read (2024): Palestinian activists push for a global energy embargo as attacks on Israel’s energy infrastructure show its vulnerability. What’s at stake?
Fighting Fire with Community: Local Initiatives Rise Up Amidst the Israeli War on Lebanon
Jadaliyya (2024): El Khazen & Eid discuss Israel's ongoing attacks on Lebanon, including the destruction and contamination of agricultural land, and local efforts at fighting back through community support.
Risks of Morocco's green hydrogen plans
SCIENCE (2024): In this letter with SCIENCE's insights section, Hussein & Schuetze discuss the risks of Morocco's green hydrogen plans.
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
IJURR (2024): 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).
Routes to Disruption - Supply Chain Sabotage and Israel’s War on Gaza
MERIP (2024): Activists are attempting to disrupt Israel's military operations in Gaza by targeting supply chains. The article examines the role of U.S. jet fuel and historical resistance tactics.
The Uneven Politics of Decarbonization in the Middle East and North Africa
MERIP (2024): How are renewable energy projects in the Middle East and North Africa reinforcing existing power structures? Benjamin Schuetze's article reveals how authoritarian elites and multinational corporations benefit, while local populations are often sidelined. Key projects like the Morocco-UK Power Project illustrate ongoing economic inequalities and neocolonial dependencies.
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.
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.