PD Dr. Martin Beck

(on leave: Resident Representative of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung to Jordan www.kas.de/amman)

GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
Germany

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Biographical data:

• Born in 1962
• Studies of Political Science and German Linguistics and Literature at the University of Tübingen, 1983-1989
• Professional career:

• Member of GIGA Research Programme 2 und im GIGA Forschungsschwerpunkt 4

Memberships:

• German Association for the Middle East (DAVO)
• German Association for Political Science (DVPW)
• Member of a Selection Committee of the German Academic Exchance Service (DAAD) for Research Funding
• * Referee for Peer-Reviewed Journals (e.g. “Cooperation and Conflict”) and Research Funding Agencies (e.g. the German Foundation for Peace Research)

Teaching:

• IR Schools of Thought and their Application to the Middle East (Hamburg University, Winter Term 2008/09)
• The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in its Regional and Global Context (Hamburg University, Summer Term 2008)
• International Oil Politics (Bremen University, Winter Term 2007/08)
• Approaches of Political Science (University of Bremen, Winter Term 2007/08)
• Regional Powers (University of Bremen, Winter Term 2007/08)
• Concepts of Conflict Management (Helmut-Schmidt University, Hamburg, Winter Term 2006)
• Lecture Series on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Fall Term 2005)

Current research:

• International and regional Oil Politics, “Paria States” in the Middle East, Regional Politics and Regional Powers in the Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Publications (selection):

• 2009: Review on Oil Wars, in: Mary Kaldor/Terry Lynn Karl/Yahia Said (eds.), British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 36 (3), 2009, pp. 475-476

• 2009: Rente und Rentierstaat im Nahen Osten, in: Beck, Martin / Harders, Cilja / Jünemann, Annette / Stetter, Stephan (eds.), Der Nahe Osten im Umbruch. Zwischen Transformation und Autoritarismus, book series: Der Nahe Osten im Umbruch, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 25-49

• 2009: Einleitung, in: Beck, Martin / Harders, Cilja / Jünemann, Annette / Stetter, Stephan (eds.), Der Nahe Osten im Umbruch. Zwischen Transformation und Autoritarismus, book series: Der Nahe Osten im Umbruch, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 7-22

• 2009 (with Johannes Gerschewski): On the Fringes of the International Community. The Making and Survival of "Rogue States", in: Sicherheit und Frieden/Security and Peace, 27 (2009) 2 (Special Issue on "International Community - Rhetoric and Reality", edited by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara/Florian Kühn), pp. 84-90

• 2008: Regional Politics in a Highly Fragmented Region: Israel’s Middle East Policies; GIGA Working Paper No 89, September 2008, Hamburg (Abstract & full article).

• 2007: Paving the Way for Democracies or Strengthening Authoritarianism? Reforms in the Middle East, in: Henner Fürtig (ed.): The Arab Authoritarian Regime Between Reform and Persistance, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 1-24.

• 2006: German Foreign Policy and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, in: Hanns W. Maull (ed.), Germany’s Uncertain Power. Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 260-272.

• 2006: Germany’s Contribution to Building Knowledge-Based Societies in the Arab World. How to Match the Aims of a Civilian Power with the Goals of the Arab Human Development Reports, in: Herbert-Quandt-Stiftung (ed.): Mediterranean Sea – Gap or Bridge. Perspectives on Cooperation in Education and Scholarship between Germany and the Arab World, Bad Homburg: Societätsverlag, 48-63.

• 2005: U.S and EU Approaches to the Middle East, in: Turkish Policy Quarterly 4.2, 2005, pp. 123-135.

• 2005: The Future Role of NATO in the Middle East. Five Scenarios, in: Jean Dufourcq/Laure Borgomano-Loup (eds.), Horizons de sécurité en Méditerranée et au Moyen Orient. Communauté d’intérêts et défis communs / Looking to the Future. Common Security Interests and Challenges in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, Rome: NATO Defense College, 67-73.

• 2004: Prospects for and Obstacles to Achieving a Viable Palestinian State. What Can an Actor With Inferior Power Capabilities Do in a Graduated Prisoner’s Dilemma?, Birzeit: Birzeit University.

• 2004: Who Is and Who Should Be Afraid of Democratising Palestine?, in: The Jerusalem Times 540, 14.

•  2003: Resistance to Globalization and Limited Liberalization in the Middle East, in: Martin Beck (with Harald Barrios Andreas Boeckh und Klaus Segbers) (eds.), Resistance to Globalization. Political Struggle and Cultural Resilience in the Middle East, Russia, and Latin America, Münster: Lit-Verlag, 4-33.

• 2003: Resuming the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, in: Security Dialogue 34.2, 235-238.

• 2000: The External Dimension of Authoritarian Rule in Palestine, in: Journal of International Relations and Development 3.1, 47-66.

Complete list

Lectures (selection):

• "Oil-Rent Boom in Iran" (paper giver), 21. Jahrestagung der IPSA (International Political Science Association), Santiago de Chile, July 13, 2009

• "Region Politics as Rivalry. The Lack of Leadership in the Middle East", Annual Lectures Series, Orient-Institut Beirut, February 17, 2009, Beirut

• Regional Politics in a Highly Fragmented Region: Israel’s Middle East Policies, Regional Power Network Conference, Hamburg, 15.-16. September 2008.

• Globalisation as a Threat: The Middle Eastern Resistance to Modernisation”, at the conference on “Global Common Challenges and Regional Trends – the Arab World in Times of Change, organized by the Regional Centre on Conflict Prevention, Amman, 3.-4. November 2007.

• "Western Democracy Promotion towards the Middle East: External Initiatives and Internal Reactions", ECPR Conference, 12.-15. September 2007, Turin (Standing Group "International relations").

• "Regional Powers in the Middle East?", ECPR General Conference Pisa, September 6-8, 2007

• * "Reforms in the Middle East. A Theoretical Perspective", at the World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES 2), Amman, 11.-16. June 2006.

• "Germany's Contribution to Build Knowledge-Based Societies in the Arab World", at the Conference Perspectives on Cooperation in Education between Germany and the Arab World, GTZ and Herbert-Quandt-Stiftung, 12.-13. September 2005, Berlin.

"German Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East", at the Conference on German Foreign Policy in the 1990s and Beyond, July 14-17, 2004, Cologne.

• "The NATO in the Middle East in the Year 2030", at the Conference of the NATO Defense College The Future of NATO in the Middle East, November 29-30, 2004, Rom.

• "German Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East", at the Conference organized by the Volkswagen Foundation on German Foreign Policy in the 1990s and Beyond, July 14-17, 2004, Cologne.

Media article:

• in Arabic: Obama's Policy towards the Arab and Islamic World: The Words should be Followed by Deeds
  (Deutsche Welle, April 7, 2009)

• Region lacks leadership, Middle East expert tells Beirut audience
  (The Daily Star (Lebanon), February 19, 2009)

• Germany’s Success as a Mideast Broker
  Interview with Kathryn Westcott of BBC (July 16, 2008)