Publications
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). It examines how these expansive ventures redefine connections across continents, revealing the complex processes of financing, planning, and impact. By exploring their reach and influence, the article highlights how these projects create new transnational publics and reshape global interactions.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.‘Seizing the Moment’: Arab-Israeli normalization, infrastructure as a means to bypass politics and the promotion of an Israeli-Jordanian transit trade-route
Geopolitics (2024): Schuetze analyzes efforts at Arab-Israeli normalisation in Jordan. Exploring what happens when trade routes stop, the article offers an empirically-grounded discussion of attempts at normalisation via infrastructure as a means to bypass politics.Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring
Middle East Critique (2023): Schuetze investigates how violence and exclusion are embedded within the Mediterranean electricity ring project, revealing how local violence connects with transregional electricity flows. His analysis exposes the project's dual nature: promoting sustainable energy integration while also reinforcing Eurocentric exclusion and colonial violence against Arab populations and Mediterranean refugees.While delivery platforms are booming, migrant workers go on strike
dis:orient (2023): Elia El Khazen writes about Lebanese delivery workers striking against Toters, exposing systemic exploitation under the Kafala system while building resistance through mutual aid networks and ongoing protests.The geopolitical economy of an undermined energy transition: The case of Jordan
Energy Policy (2023): In this article, Schuetze & Hussein argue that Jordanian efforts at energy transition have increasingly been undermined since 2019, reinforcing both authoritarian practices and dependence on fossil fuels and Israel.Pagination
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