A5089156671- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- International Development and Aid
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Socioeconomic Development in MENA
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Global Financial Crisis and Policies
- Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Global trade and economics
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
- International Relations in Latin America
- Global Economic and Social Development
- Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
- Global Political and Social Dynamics
- Natural Resources and Economic Development
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- African history and culture studies
Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
2013-2025
German Institute for Global and Area Studies
2020-2025
Universität Hamburg
2018-2024
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
2015-2017
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
2016
This introduction sets the scene for special issue compiled by Martin Keulertz, Eckart Woertz and Tony Allan.
Agriculture is an important source of income for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), which currently rules over large parts breadbaskets two countries. It has received limited attention compared to other sources ISIS revenues such as oil, looting, ransom, foreign donations various forms taxation. We estimate winter crops production wheat barley ISIS-controlled areas both years 2014–2015 irrigated summer (cotton) Northeast Syria. show that remote sensing can give a credible estimation...
<title>Abstract</title> In an interconnected world, climate change impacts can cascade across sectors and regions, creating systemic risks. We analyze cascading on the EU27, originating from outside identify critical intervention points for adaptation. Using network analysis, we develop archetypal impact model synthesizing stakeholder-co-produced chains quantitative data diverse sectors, integrating insights foreign policy, trade, human security, finance 102 non-EU countries. Key nodes –...
Past approaches to food security in the countries of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) were informed by concerns about availability. They aimed at domestic self-sufficiency and proxy (via farmland investments abroad). These strategies have failed. Water scarcity home increasingly compromises agricultural production. Farmland abroad not matched ambitious related announcements due a complex mixture commercial, socio-economic political factors. do contribute meaningful quantities countries'...
In the wake of 2008 global food crisis and export restrictions imposed by major exporters, Gulf states announced plans for foreign agro-investments, including land deals, in name national security. Media reporting has often conveyed an inaccurate picture these deals since project implementation lagged far behind official announcements. This essay analyzes states' against backdrop domestic politics, strategic vulnerabilities, earlier agro-investments Sudan during 1970s. Approaches among...
The Water–Energy–Food (WEF) nexus is a development challenge in the Arab world, particularly ‘core countries’ with low to mid-incomes which limited water endowments permit agricultural production, such as Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Algeria, Sudan and Jordan. WEF often conceptualized mere technocratic terms, yet politics matter implementation of projects that address it. Internalizing hydrological externalities or leaving them they are financing public good requires states whose...
Ukraine is an untapped asset. It presents opportunities both nationally and for Europe as engine of foreign policy in a century troubled by climate change resources scarcity. Its 32 million ha arable could easily become 40 which would add 25% new cropland to the European Union – from 160 200 making world's largest agricultural producer. And 65% Chernozem: best soil world crops that are crucial water-short economies Africa, Middle East Asia and, moreover, mainstay global corporate food...
Abstract The article questions neo-Malthusian theories that attempt to explain conflict and food security in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) as consequence of environmental stress factors like water scarcity, drought climate change. Instead it argues socio-political are key understanding conflicts region. environment is a quintessentially human category susceptible adaptation, not an external variable mechanically triggers consequences. Particular emphasis laid on cases Syria Darfur....
Since the global food crisis of 2008 states have encouraged international agro-investments by their respective private sectors or undertaken them directly via state-owned companies and sovereign wealth funds. This chapter analyses crucial role played national governments with help three case studies: Gulf countries, China, potential host countries. It thus shows varying constraints experienced these cases strategies pursued to overcome them. States in are heavily dependent on imports...
A populist surge in Europe is affecting Euro-Mediterranean cooperation 25 years after the Barcelona Process was launched, reinforcing existing trends of de-Europeanization and renationalization foreign policies. This article analyses landscape political contestation Mediterranean a new age populism, focusing on France, Italy Spain as well Visegrad 4 states that have turned from bystanders to veto players affairs. We find 'thick' ideologies which populists are borrowing condition thrust their...
AbstractThis article provides a mapping exercise of the economic importance non-hydrocarbon minerals (nhm) in Middle East and North Africa (mena) shows how governments region increasingly perceive them as strategic resources. The focus is on Saudi Arabia other Gulf countries, Turkey, Morocco Iran. nhm like iron ore, phosphates, aluminium uranium are important for development models region, either export commodities or vital input factors. Since 1990s, elsewhere world, sector has witnessed...
This paper analyses the role of agriculture in political economy Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It outlines agriculture's relative contribution to development employment, shows linkages with food security policies, discusses possible future scenarios. Agriculture's economies MENA is limited nowadays, but its employment still substantial. In many countries it at heart region's water crisis as withdraws about 80 per cent resources. Agricultural constituencies have played an important...
Using Iraqi archival resources and newspapers, this article analyzes strategic perceptions of the multilateral United Nations embargo (1990–2003) by Saddam Husayn his Ba'th Party. It shows how regime prioritized agricultural self-sufficiency to break embargo, used food rationing avert famine, instrumentalized trade reward cronies punish opponents. Food security, hydropolitics, agriculture ranked prominently in discussions as they were regarded crucial safeguard political legitimacy assure survival.