Schütze, Dr. Benjamin

Position: 
Senior Researcher
Email: 
benjamin.schuetze [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone: 
+49 (0)761 888 78 30
Twitter: 
https://twitter.com/benschuetze86
Areas of Research: 
external interventions and 'democracy promotion', transregional authoritarian practices, economic liberalisation, military collaboration, renewable energies
Regional Focus: 
Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

 

Click here for a complete CV in English.

Education: 
2011-2016
PhD (without corrections), Prof. Tripp, Politics and International Studies,School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK (extended field research stays in Jordan, Brussels and Washington DC)
2009-2010
MA Near & Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK
2006-2009
BA Arabic studies and Political Science, University of Leipzig, Germany
2008-2009
Semester abroad at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon
08-09/2007
Private lessons in Modern Standard Arabic and Levantine dialect, Damascus / Syria
Professional Experience / Applied Research: 
since 2020
Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI), senior researcher
2016-2021
University of Freiburg, Chair for Development Theory and Policy, Department of Political Science, Post-Doc
2013-2014
SOAS, University of London, Department of Politics and International Studies, graduate teaching assistant
2010-2011
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Crisis Prevention and Recovery Unit, Beirut / Libanon, Carlo-Schmid-fellow

Projects

EUCOR seed money: Making Infrastructure Global? Design and Governance of Infrastructural Expansion in the Global South (with Alke Jenss and Kenny Cupers)

FRIAS early career researcher conference: Authoritarianism & Democracy: Transnational and Multiscalar Perspectives on Power and Spaces of Contestation (with Cita Wetterich, Julia Gurol, Alke Jenss and Fabricio Rodriguez)

 

Networks

Research Network External Democracy Promotion EDP

Security in Context

FRIAS Young Academy for Sustainability Research

 

Consultancies

(2020) The Socio-Economic Effects of Solar Energy in the Middle East and North Africa, expert study, Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) Climate and Energy Project MENA

(2018-19) Politökonomische Kurzanalyse (PÖK) Jordanien (Neufassung 2018, Überarbeitung 2019), German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

 

Select publications

(2021) "Rethinking Authoritarian Power: The Logistics Space and Authoritarian Practices in and between Secondary Port Cities of the Global South" (co-authored with Alke Jenss), International Studies Quarterly, open-access.

(2020) "Essential Readings on 'Democracy Promotion'", Jadaliyya, Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI), July 21.

(2019) Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism: US and European Policy in Jordan (Cambridge University Press); reviewed in The Middle East Journal and Democratization.

(2018) "Marketing parliament: The constitutive effects of external attempts at parliamentary strengthening in Jordan", Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 237-58.

(2017) "Simulating, marketing, and playing war: US-Jordanian military collaboration and the politics of commercial security", Security Dialogue, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 431-50.

(2017) "Jordan’s KASOTC: Privatising anti-terror training", Al Jazeera, July 17.

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