Emile Badarin

This article examines empirical resilience interventions to demonstrate how resilience-building is utilised to govern in non- liberal settings and how its political and economic positionality shapes concrete resilience projects, processes of inclusion and exclusion and the hierarchies between them. It argues that the politics and economy that under...

This article cross-examines the external and internal dimensions of settler-colonial politics of recognition. In settler-colonialism, recognition represents another medium for the elimination of the natives, whose existence is considered as a source of threat, uncertainty and curtailed settler sovereignty. Settler sovereign statehood is contingent...

This article examines international politics of recognition in the increasingly multipolar global environment, with a specific focus on recognition events in Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Crimea, the Occupied Golan Heights, Jerusalem, Western Sahara, Luhansk and Donetsk. It reveals that the recent surge in recognition is propelled by geopolit...

This article examines the recent wave of recognition of Palestine by two distinct groups of states: Caribbean nations (Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago) and Western European countries (Ireland, Norway, and Spain). It makes theoret- ical and empirical contributions, highlighting the role of perform- ance and presentation in state...

Using Palestine as a case study, Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States shows how recognition politics operate to legitimize long-standing colonial power structures. In existing scholarship, recognition has been seen as an asset coveted by indigenous communities. This book forwards a new, theoretically ground-breaking perspective. Emile Ba...

Israel - with full western backing - continues to subject 2.3 million beleaguered men, women, and children to a relentless campaign of displacement, extermination, and starvation without much external distraction

Palestine is the ethical battleground of our time, where the racism inherent in Euro-modern/colonial knowledge is dissected, exposed and resisted. This knowledge system, whether by justification or through silence, echoes the historical pattern of colonial atrocities across the Global South, including the unfolding genocide in Palestine. In this li...

Palestinian resistance is portrayed by Europe as a reincarnation of Nazi evil, a ruse to justify genocide and in keeping with its long history of structural colonial violence. In contrast to previous Euro-settler-colonial genocides, the unfolding genocide in Gaza is being livestreamed and witnessed by everyone. Therefore, in addition to intent and...

In an unusual alignment, both the Jordanian royal court and government are in accord with their and recognise the unfolding Israeli in as a threat to the very existence of . This threat has deeper ideological and eschatological foundations rooted in Revisionist Zionism, which Jordan as part of “greater Israel”, and which informs the current politic...

The entrenched Euro-colonial structure permeating the international order has enabled and licensed the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since 1948. This is not a war between Israel and Hamas; rather, it is a continuation of settler-colonial violence aimed at uprooting the indigenous people of Palestine from their land.

Il est évident aujourd’hui en Occident que l’affiliation politique fait peu de différence quand il est question de la Palestine et de la lutte palestinienne. Les dirigeants, les politiciens, les experts et les personnalités médiatiques de l’ensemble de l’échiquier politique, qu’il s’agisse de la droite, des conservateurs, des libéraux, du centre e...

It is evident today in the West that one's political affiliation makes little difference when it comes to and the Palestinian struggle. Leaders, politicians, pundits and media figures spanning the political spectrum, including the right, conservative, liberal, centre and left, have all lent their to the settler-colonial and apartheid regime. To tru...

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The state-bound conception of diplomatic practices is deficient. It fails to account for the diversity of international actors who do not fit the nation-state geopolitical ordering. Unrecognised and subaltern subjects have constantly contested this structuring. Although excluded from orthodox praxis of diplomacy, self-determination and anti-colonia...

Opinion The Black civil rights movement in the US propagated the maxim of speaking truth to power in the fight against racial segregation and injustice. But what if speaking itself can be turned into a vehicle for disempowerment and dispossession? In trying to have the Arab people talk to Israel, journalists have sought popular recognition that wo...

The essay reflects on the cultural dimensions of the imperial invasions of Afghanistan in the wake of the US retreat from the country in 2021. It argues that Afghanistan can be added to the list of failed liberal peace and statebuilding interventions undertaken since the 1990s, and this further underlines the need to critically scrutinise the whole...

This essay reflects on the cultural dimensions of the imperial invasions of Afghanistan in the wake of the US retreat from the country in 2021. It argues that Afghanistan can be added to the list of failed liberal peace and statebuilding interventions undertaken since the 1990s, and this further underlines the need to critically scrutinise the whol...

This article examines current energy-related disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean. It does so by situating them in the context of the Middle East’s broader geopolitical landscape and by showing how global powers’ interests and involvement have become contingent on the international and regional political environments. The latter augmented the inte...

Ces mêmes gouvernements qui ont sollicité la Cour pénale internationale vis-à-vis de l’Ukraine usent délibérément de tactiques judiciaires et politiques pour retarder et entraver une enquête similaire en Palestine. Read more: https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/opinionfr/cpi-ukraine-justice-pas-palestine-crimes-israel

Anyone familiar with the prolonged legal struggles in the case of Palestine knows too well that such notorious tactics have become the prevailing principles, rather than just a singular occurrence, geared towards the repudiation of justice and accountability in Palestine. Although justice delayed is no less than its denial, these efforts and tactic...

This chapter interrogates EU development aid to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region after the 2011 uprisings/revolts to understand the role aid plays in shaping the contemporary relationship between the EU and ex-colonies in the MENA region. The chapter begins by noting the historical evolution of Europe’s relationship with MENA countrie...

This article critically examines the association between resilience and local concepts in the discourse of hegemonic international actors and shows how it operates and for what purposes. It reveals the general practice of co-optation of locally-resonant practices and notions as a medium for conceptual transfer. By interrogating the interplay betwee...

Book review of Social justice and Israel/Palestine: foundational and contemporary debates edited by Aaron J. Hahn Tapper and Mira Sucharov, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2019, 296pp., ISBN 9781487588069

This article recalls the recognition-colonialism conjuncture to examine how prior normative rights to self-determination, independence and decolonisation influence current recognition practice, and asks how they compete with contingent factors. The interrogation of this inter-pretive process provides insights into how recognition of states operates...

This essay examines the implications of the continued spread of Covid-19 on the political, economic and security challenges that confront Jordan. It argues that the country's response to the pandemic constitutes a signi cant juncture in the counter-revolt and counter-reform in the region. The reactions of the Jordanian government unfolded as a proc...

This piece has two arguments: First, formal Israeli annexation of the West Bank, especially the Jordan Valley, officially torpedoes the century-old Jordanian foreign and security strategy of cooperation with its imperial patrons (Britain, then the US) and the Zionist movement, which evolved into a Jordanian-Israeli peace with an expected Palestinia...

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has obstructed the education of students globally. But this is hardly new to Palestinian students and academics, whose educational life has for decades been systematically stymied by Israeli colonial practices. The alarming spread of coronavirus has forced many universities and schools to close, embracing virtu...

This chapter argues that the notion of resilience in EU foreign policy towards its southern ‘near abroad’ is unsettled and continues to undergo a seemingly endless process of reconceptualisation. Accordingly, the chapter treats resilience not only as a work-in-progress. It also considers the concept as a discursive means through which the EU attemp...

This op-ed article provides analysis of the EU foreign policy towards the Middle East in the light of the EU-League of Arab States summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 24-25 February 2019. Publisher: Middle East Eye URL: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/eu-foreign-policy-normalises-totalitarianism-middle-east

This article examines politics of states recognition. Despite the significance of the concept of recognition to international politics, only recently has international relations (IR) scholarship begun to appreciate its analytical value. How states employ their prerogatives to grant or withhold recognition has received less attention in IR. The arti...

This op-ed article provides a brief analysis of the impact of the EU foreign policy towards the Middle East.

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This article explores the theoretical bases of the Israel-Palestine peace pro- cess to see how that impacts peacebuilding and everyday life in Palestine. It begins by examining the lens through which classical and contemporary realist and liberal thought approaches peace, nonpeace, war, and peacebuilding. Second, it examines how knowledge productio...

A great deal of political and academic responses to the Israel/Palestine conflict have construed the Palestinians as an object of Western and Israeli discourses, rather than their own Palestinian discourse. This has hindered understanding of the internal mechanisms involved in the production of the Palestinian conditions. Palestinian Political Disc...

In the pursuit of ethnically based settlements, Israel continues to illegally confiscate Palestinian land and populate it with settlers. A system of spatial control was devised to maintain the pace of settler spatial expansion. It is an ad hoc and elastic system that is continuously revised and upgraded, while new elements are added to it. This pap...