
Projekte
DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group: Renewable Energies, Renewed Authoritarianisms? The Political Economy of Solar Energy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Thyssen foundation: Promises of Democratic Connection? The Politics of Transregional Energy Infrastructure Expansion
EUCOR seed money: Making Infrastructure Global? Design and Governance of Infrastructural Expansion in the Global South
Netzwerke
Research Network External Democracy Promotion EDP
FRIAS Young Academy for Sustainability Research
Sonstiges
Mitglied des International Editorial Advisory Boards von Middle East Critique
Mitglied des FRIAS Steuerungsgremiums
Co-speaker der DAVO Arbeitsgruppe Postkoloniale Perspektiven
Beratungstätigkeiten
(2022) Unlikely Companions of Energy Transitions? Opportunities and Challenges of Triangular Cooperation between the EU and the GCC in the MENA, policy report, EuroMeSCo, EU (co-authored with Eckart Woertz)
(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), Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ).
Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen
Monographien:
(2019) Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism: US and European Policy in Jordan (Cambridge University Press); reviewed in The Middle East Journal and Democratization.
Artikel & Buchkapitel (Auswahl):
(2023) "Prefiguring politics: transregional energy infrastructures as a lens for the study of authoritarian practices" (co-authored with Alke Jenss), Globalizations, online-first.
(2022) "Infrastructuring Authoritarian Power: Arab Gulf-Chinese Transregional Collaboration beyond the State" (co-authored with Julia Gurol), International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 231-249, open access.
(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, Vol. 65, pp. 82-94, open-access.
(2020) "Essential Readings on 'Democracy Promotion'", Jadaliyya, Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI), July 21.
(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.