Schütze, Dr. Benjamin

Position: 
Senior Researcher at the University of Freiburg, Dept. Political Science, Chair Prof. Mehler
Email: 
benjamin.schuetze [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Areas of Research: 
external attempts at democracy promotion, processes of democratisation and authoritarian stability in the MENA, politics of intervention, civil society, economic liberalisation, critical security studies
Regional Focus: 
Near and Middle East; particularly Lebanon and Jordan

 

Curriculum Vitae

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: 
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

 

Select publications

(2018) "Marketing parliament: The constitutive effects of external attempts at parliamentary strengthening in Jordan", Cooperation and Conflict, forthcoming.

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

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

(2017) "US-Jordanian military collaboration and the politics of commercial security" (link is external), Security Dialogue blog, July 12.

(2016) "Misrepresenting the Contextual and Idealising the Universal: How US Efforts at Democracy Promotion Bolster Authoritarianism in Jordan", ABI Working Paper No. 3.

(2013) "Democracy’s Arsenal – Creating a twenty-first-century defense industry“ (link is external), Media, War & Conflict, August 2013, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 184-5. (book review)

(2010) "Haret Hreik – Hisbollah-organisierter Wiederaufbau und die Notwendigkeit von Alternativen“ (link is external), Mediterranes, Euro-Mediterranean Association (EMA), Nr. 2, 2010, pp. 13-5.

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