As Israel launches unprecedented strikes inside Iran and the war in Gaza deepens, Denmark is set to take over the EU presidency.
Join us Wed. at #DIIS to discuss whether and how the EU can influence events in its southern neighborhood
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The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to announce POMEPS Studies 58: IR Theory and the Middle East at War. Download the full PDF here: pomeps.org/pomeps-studi...
New policy brief by @maria-clausen.bsky.social & @peteralalbrecht.bsky.social about Europe's new logic of intervention. Where weapons production is normalised as a routine instrument of foreign policy by embedding it in the same vocabulary as trade agreements and development assistance.
Maria Louise Clausen
Solar power has transformed Yemen’s energy landscape — but it’s also creating new kinds of waste.
My latest DIIS Policy Brief examines how the rapid solar rollout risks burdening local communities with toxic waste from broken panels and batteries.
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New article in Middle East Critique (open access)!
I explore how Western security assistance in Iraq enables what I call vicarious impunity - outsourcing responsibility for violence to local partners while sustaining influence from a distance.
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This introduction to forthcoming SI in Journal of interventions and statebuilding argue that violence is not incidental to liberal peacebuilding, but embedded within the very practices through which peace is pursued (open access) @diis.dk
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A plea to listen to Yemen's forgotten voices (pro-tip - it's the Yemenis...) by @afrahnasser.bsky.social
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New article in Big Data & Society w/ Adam Fejerskov and Sarah Seddig
We introduce the concept of datafied localization to describe how efforts to use big data in humanitarian aid can end up reinforcing the global hierarchies localisation was meant to challenge.
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In December 2025, POMEPS convened a workshop at Aarhus University in Denmark, bringing together scholars to collectively interrogate these questions: what core concepts, theories, or hypotheses in Mid...
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This seminar examines whether the EU can transform its ambitions into coherent strategy, and what this means for future engagement with its neighbours to the south
This introduction advances the concept of violent peacemaking to suggest ways that violence is constitutive of, rather than incidental to, liberal peacebuilding. It foregrounds three characteristic...
Addressing long-term consequences of solar transition.
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The integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms into development aid and relief efforts has brought datafication processes to the f...
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As a Yemeni journalist, I have found myself grappling not only with the challenges of reporting on the country, but also with the glaring inconsistencies in how the world perceives Yemen.
This article introduces the concept of ‘vicarious impunity’ to describe how Western interveners, particularly through Security Force Assistance (SFA), distance themselves from the consequences of v...
