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Dr. Benjamin Schütze

Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, International Relations

YAS Fellow
October 2021 – June 2022

Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research
October 2021 – September 2024

E-Mail: benjamin.schuetze@abi.uni-freiburg.de

Last Update: 08.11.2024

Curriculum Vitae

Benjamin Schuetze is a Fellow with the Young Academy for Sustainability Research at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), and Senior Researcher and Emmy Noether Junior Research Group leader at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI). Previously, he has held posts as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Freiburg’s Department of Political Science and as Carlo Schmid Fellow at UNDP’s Crisis Prevention and Recovery Unit in Beirut. In 2016, he completed his PhD at SOAS, University of London, for which he conducted extensive field research in Jordan, Belgium and the USA. Ben has studied Political Science and Arabic Studies at the University of Leipzig, American University of Beirut and SOAS. His research examines transregional authoritarian practices and the politics of intervention via a focus on the political economy of renewable energy in the MENA, US and European attempts at ‘democracy promotion’ in Jordan, and US-Jordanian military collaboration. His publications have, among others, appeared in GlobalizationsInternational Studies QuarterlyCooperation and Conflict, and Security Dialogue. His book on ‘Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism: US and European Policy in Jordan’ was published with Cambridge University Press in 2019, and has received positive reviews in Democratization and The Middle East Journal. He is currently leading a DFG-funded Emmy Noether Research Group on ‘Renewable Energies, Renewed Authoritarianisms? The Political Economy of Solar Energy in the MENA’ at the ABI, Freiburg.

Selected Publications

YAS Projects