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Schütze, Dr. Benjamin

E-Mail:
benjamin.schuetze [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Telefon:
+49 (0)761 888 78 23
Forschungsbereiche:
Externe Intervention und 'Demokratieförderung', transregionale autoritäre Praktiken, wirtschaftliche Liberalisierung, Militärkollaboration, erneuerbare Energieprojekte
Regionale Schwerpunkte:
Naher und Mittlerer Osten
Berufserfahrung:
ab 2022
Head of DFG-funded Emmy Noether Junior Research Group 'Renewable Energies, Renewed Authoritarianisms? The Political Economy of Solar Energy in the MENA'
2021-2022
Junior Fellow, Young Academy for Sustainability Research, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg
2020-2021
Arnold Bergstraesser Institut, Senior Researcher
2016-2021
Universität Freiburg, Lehrstuhl für Entwicklungstheorien und Entwicklungspolitik, Seminar für Wissenschaftliche Politik, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (postdoc)
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
Ausbildung:
2011-2016
PhD (without corrections), Prof. Tripp, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK (Feldforschungsaufenthalte in Jordanien, Brüssel und Washington DC)
2009-2010
MA Near & Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK
2006-2009
BA Arabistik und Politikwissenschaft, Universität Leipzig
2008-2009
Auslandssemester an der American University of Beirut (AUB), Libanon
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Mitglied im Security in Context Netzwerk

Mitglied in der FRIAS Young Academy for Sustainability Research

Mitglied im Research Network External Democracy Promotion EDP

Mitglied des International Editorial Advisory Board of Middle East Critique

Co-Speaker in der German Oriental Studies Association's working group 'Postcolonial Perspectives'

Mitglied im Steering Committee of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)

Mitglied im Committee on Academic Freedom of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)

(2024) "The Uneven Politics of Decarbonization in the Middle East and North Africa", Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), Issue 311, Post-Fossil Politics.

(2024) "Supporting plausible acts of genocide: Red lines and the failure of German Middle Eastern Studies", Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS), Studies 51, The War on Gaza and Middle East Political Science, pp. 32-38.

(2024) "Facilitating Energy Flows, Containing Humans: Authoritarian Energy Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region", (mit Elia El Khazen, Charlotte Müller & Philipp Wagner), State of Power, Transnational Institute, February 8.

(2024) "Elsewheres of the Unbuilt: The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects", (mit Maren Larsen, Alke Jenss & Kenny Cupers), International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR), open-access.

(2024) "Seizing the Moment": Arab-Israeli normalization, infrastructure as a means to bypass politics and the promotion of an Israeli-Jordanian transit trade", Geopolitics, online-first.

(2023) "Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring", Middle East Critique, online-first.

(2023) "The Geopolitical Economy of an Undermined Energy Transition: The Case of Jordan", (mit Hussam Hussein), Energy Policy, 180: 113655, open access.

(2021) "Rethinking Authoritarian Power: The Logistics Space and Authoritarian Practices in and between Secondary Port Cities of the Global South", (mit Alke Jenss), International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 65, pp. 82-94, open-access.

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

(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.

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