Dr. Martin Beck

Overview

Martin Beck is Professor in International Relations and Security Studies at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH). From 2012 to 2021 he held a chair in Modern Middle East Studies at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), and in 2022 he served as a Visiting Professor at the Saint Joseph University (USJ) of Beirut. Martin previously worked as a researcher, academic teacher, and political advisor in Germany (Tübingen, Hamburg, and Bremen), the Middle East (Birzeit/Palestine, Beirut, and Amman), and the USA (Denver, Colorado). His research covers international politics and political economy, in particular regional power relations, the Arab—Israeli conflict, regional oil politics, securitization studies, comparative analysis of rentier states, and migration studies. Martin is author of more than 150 academic publications. For details, see his profiles at GoogleScholar and ResearchGate.

Education

• - 07/2001: Post-doctoral Thesis and Lecturing Qualification in Political Science ("Habilitation"), University of Tübingen, Germany
• - 01/1994: Doctoral in Political Science, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
• - 11/1989: State Teaching Exam in Political Science and German Linguistics and Literature, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Publications

Martin Beck (2023) Making sense of Lebanon’s approach to the (non-)securitisation of Syrian refugees: a political economic perspective, Third World Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2022.2159801

Martin Beck and Thomas Richter (2022), “Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf,” Energy Research & Social Science 91, 102717.

Martin Beck (2021), On the making of the German ‘refugee crisis’. Securitizing Muslim immigrants in 2015 and beyond, Journal of Refugee Studies 34.2, 1307-1326

Martin Beck and Thomas Richter (eds) (2021), Oil and the political economy in the Middle East. Post-2014 adjustment policies of the Arab Gulf and beyond (Manchester: Manchester University Press).

Martin Beck and Thomas Richter (2021), Pressured by the decreased price of oil. Post-2014 adjustment policies in the Arab Gulf and beyond, in: Martin Beck and Thomas Richter (eds), Oil and the political economy in the Middle East. Post-2014 adjustment policies of the Arab Gulf and beyond (Manchester: Manchester University Press), 1-35.

Martin Beck and Thomas Richter (2021), Oil and political economy in the Middle East. Overcoming rentierism?, in: Martin Beck and Thomas Richter (eds), Oil and the political economy in the Middle East. Post-2014 adjustment policies of the Arab Gulf and beyond (Manchester: Manchester University Press), 237-268.

Martin Beck (2021), Security threats from the Southern Mediterranean as viewed by Europe. A comparative analysis of the ‘long year’ of 1979 and the 2010s, in: Robert Mason (ed.), Transnational security cooperation in the Mediterranean (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan), 19-39.

Martin Beck (2020), The aggravated struggle for regional power in the Middle East. American allies Saudi Arabia and Israel versus Iran, Global Policy 11.1, 84-92.

Martin Beck and Thomas Richter (2020), Fluctuating regional (dis-)order in the post-Arab Uprising Middle East, Global Policy 11.1, 68-74.

Martin Beck (2019), On the continuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in: Isabel Bramsen, Poul Poder, and Ole Wæver (eds), Resolving international conflict. Dynamics of escalation, continuation, and transformation (Abingdon: Routledge), 200-214.

Martin Beck (2017), How to (not) walk the talk. The demand for Palestinian self-determination as a challenge for the European Neighbourhood Policy, European Foreign Affairs Review 22.1, 59-73.

Martin Beck (2017), Israeli foreign policy. Securitizing occupation, in: Robert Mason (ed.), Reassessing order and disorder in the Middle East. Regional imbalance or disintegration? (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield), 173-193.

Martin Beck (2016), ‘Watching and waiting’ and ‘Much ado about nothing’? Making sense of the Israeli response to the Arab Uprisings, Palgrave Communications 2, 16079.

Martin Beck, Dietrich Jung, and Peter Seeberg (eds) (2016), The Levant in turmoil. Syria, Palestine, and the transformation of Middle Eastern politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).

Martin Beck (2016), Failed attempts or failures to attempt? Western policies toward Palestinian statehood, in: Martin Beck, Dietrich Jung, and Peter Seeberg (eds), The Levant in turmoil. Syria, Palestine, and the transformation of Middle Eastern politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), 167-189.

Martin Beck, Dietrich Jung, and Peter Seeberg (2016), Political turmoil and social transformation in the Levant, in: Martin Beck, Dietrich Jung, and Peter Seeberg (eds), The Levant in turmoil. Syria, Palestine, and the transformation of Middle Eastern politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), 1-11.

Martin Beck and Simone Hüser (2015), Jordan and the ‘Arab Spring’. No challenge, no change?, Middle East Critique 24.1, 83-97.

Martin Beck (2015), Regional Middle Eastern exceptionalism? The Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council after the Arab Uprisings, Democracy and Security 11.2, 190-207.

Martin Beck (2014), The ‘Arab Spring’ as a challenge to political science, in: Robert Mason (ed.), Popular unrest and foreign policy. The international politics of the Arab Spring (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), 9-36.

Martin Beck (2014), The concept of regional power as applied to the Middle East, in: Henner Fürtig (ed.), Regional powers in the Middle East. New constellations after the Arab revolts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), 1-20.