Emile BADARIN

Emile Badarin – PhD Middle East Politics, MSc International Relations, MSc Political Science, MSc Urban Planning and Architecture 

I am a research fellow in the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair (ENP) at the College of Europe, Natolin Campus (2020–present), postdoctoral research fellow at the ENP Chair (2018-2020). My research focuses on international politics and foreign policy with the Middle East and the EU as areas of studies. My research interests include international relations, Middle East politics, the Question of Palestine, settler-colonialism, recognition of states and critical theory. 

Currently, I am conducting two research projects. The first is a critical investigation of the concept of resilience and resilience resilience-building as a foreign policy practice. The second project focuses on international politics of recognition and how this affects the international order. The course engages students with the various dimensions of state recognition from theoretical, historical, legal and political perspectives, which are further discussed in relation to specific empirical cases. 

As a teacher, I aspire to raise students’ confidence to think critically about international politics and foreign policy in particular. I teach a compact seminar: The EU, its Neighbourhood and the Politics of Recognition. 

For Master Thesis supervision, I welcome topics related to the area of research: EU-Middle East, Middle East Politics, Israel-Jordan-Palestine, Resilience, and State Recognition. 

Books

• Palestinian Political Discourse: Between Exile and Occupation (London: Routledge, 2016).

Selected Publications

• Recognition of States and Colonialism in the Twenty-first Century: Western Sahara and Palestine in Sweden’s Recognition Practice. Third World Quarterly (2021). 
• Politics and Economy of Resilience: EU Resilience-building in Palestine and Jordan and its Disciplinary Governance. European Security 30/1 (2021): 65–84.
• Jordan’s economic, security and political challenges under Covid-19. Mediterranean Politics (2020).
• States Recognition in Foreign Policy: The Case of Sweden’s Recognition of Palestine. Foreign Policy Analysis: 16/1 (2020): 78–97.
• Aid, Security and Fortress Europe: EU Development Aid in the Middle East and North Africa. In: Routledge Handbook on EU-Middle East Relations (London: Routledge, Forthcoming) – with Wildeman, J.
• The EU, Resilience and the Southern Neighbourhood After the Arab Uprisings. In: Cusumano E. and Hofmaier, S. eds., Projecting Resilience Across the MediterraneaN (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 63–86, 2020 – with Schumacher, T. 
• From Social to Political Sectarianism in the Middle East World. In: The Sectarian Question the Production of Minorities in the Arab World (Doha: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies 2017): 129–153.
• Palestine: A Protracted Peacebuilding Process. Conflict and Society: Advances in Research, 3 (2017): 227–245.
• Settler-colonialist Management of Entrances to the Native Urban Space in Palestine. Settler Colonial Studies,  5/3 (2015): 226–235. 

Other publications on my ResearchGate or Academia.edu

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