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, the Middle East and North Africa politics and economy, the Question of Palestine, settler-colonialism, recognition of states and critical theory. I regularly publish my research in peer-reviewed international journals (such as Third World Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, European Security, Mediterranean Politics, Settler Colonial Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, among others), book chapters and international media outlets.
Currently, I am conducting three research projects. The first is a critical investigation of the concept of resilience and resilience resilience-building as a foreign policy and security practice. The second project focuses on international politics of recognition and how this affects the international order. The third project examines the geopolitical imaginations that underwrite the political dynamics around hydrocarbon natural resources in the Eastern Mediterranean.
I teach a compact seminar on The EU, its Neighbourhood and the Politics of Recognition. The course engages students with the various dimensions of recognition politics from theoretical, historical, legal and political perspectives that are further discussed concerning specific empirical cases. As a teacher, I aspire to raise students’ confidence to think critically about international politics and foreign policy in particular.
For Master Thesis supervision, I welcome proposals that relate to my area of research on topics that deal with EU-Middle East relations, Middle East and North Africa politics and economics, Israel-Jordan-Palestine, Resilience, and Politics of Recognition.
Selected publications
Books
- Palestinian Political Discourse: Between Exile and Occupation (London: Routledge, 2016).
Articles and Book Chapters
- Politics of Recognition, Elimination and Settler-Colonialism. Critical Sociology (2021): 1–20.
- Localising Resilience: Discursive Projections, Entrapments and Domination. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2021).
- 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 November 2021) – with Wildeman, J.
- Recognition of States and Colonialism in the Twenty-first Century: Western Sahara and Palestine in Sweden’s Recognition Practice. Third World Quarterly 42/6 (2021): 1276–1294.
- 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.
- 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.
Commentary
- Why Israel’s annexation plan is a direct threat to Jordan. Middle East Eye, 6 July 2020.
- EU foreign policy normalises totalitarianism in the Middle East. Middle East Eye, 19 March 2019.
- How the EU's principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle East. Al Jazeera, 26 October 2018.
Other publications on my ResearchGate or Academia.edu
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