Peter Seeberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Seeberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Seeberg |
| SIGNATURE | SEEBERG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8950-7507 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Israeli Hydro‐Hegemony and the Gaza War
This article analyzes the vicious cycle of Israel's control of water resources in Jordan and the Palestinian territories, the development of a one‐state reality in the region, and geopolitical changes driven by the Israeli occupation and the war in Gaza. Israel no longer suffers from water shortages, but its domination of Palestine and the conflict sparked by Hamas have increased the yawning water deficit. This has played a role in the decades‐lo…
From Mobility Partnerships to Migration Compacts: Security implications of EU-Jordan relations and the informalization of migration governance
Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa entailed a proliferation of policy tools for EU external migration governance. After the signature of Mobility Partnerships, the EU launched Migration Compacts, whose inner logic is to ‘avoid the risk that concrete delivery is held up by technical negotiations for a fully-fledged formal agreement’. This paper examines the development of the EU’s external migration governance and frames it into a f…
Introduction: Arab responses to EU foreign and security policy incentives: Perspectives on migration diplomacy and institutionalized flexibility in the Arab Mediterranean turned upside down
Based on analyses of the migration policies of Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco, the overall idea behind this themed issue is to present a comparative study of responses by Arab Mediterranean states to EU foreign and security policy incentives. The themed issue draws on a historical institutionalist line of thought analysing how the given state-to-EU relationships develop or change over time and how institutions form part of and respond to new…
Syrian refugees in Jordan and their integration in the labour market: Jordanian migration diplomacy and EU incentives
Framing the analysis in Jordan’s foreign and security policy, this article discusses Jordanian migration diplomacy in relation to incentives offered by the EU. It is demonstrated that the unstable situation resulting from the long-lasting Syrian crisis has created a need for the Jordanian state to develop new political strategies, adjusting institutional policies and practices to the EU’s conditionalities regarding democratic progress and socio-e…
The EU and the Mideast Order: Ideology vs. Power Balancing
In the foreword to the “Global Strategy for the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy” (EUGS), Federica Mogherini, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy at the time, states, The idea that Europe is an exclusively “civilian power ” does not do justice to an evolving reality.... For Europe, soft and hard power go hand in hand.1 There is no doubt that the EU has significant potential when it comes to soft power. A…
Transnationalism and exceptional transition processes. The role of the Libyan diaspora from Qadhafi’s Jamahiriyya to post-revolutionary civil war and state collapse
The article analyses to what extent the Libyan diaspora was able to influence political processes in Libya under Muammar Qadhafi during the revolution in 2011 and after the fall of the regime. It is shown that the Libyan diaspora played a limited role when the Jamahiriyya, a repressive system of congresses and committees invented by Qadhafi, controlled the Libyan state. The regime drove most of the opposition out of the country, and from abroad a…
The Levant in Turmoil: Syria, Palestine, and the Transformation of Middle Eastern Politics
Since the early weeks of the so-called Arab Spring, high hopes for democratic, social, and political change in the Middle East have been met with varying degrees of frustration. In the sub-region of t
EU Policies in the Mashreq: Between Integration and Security Partnership
Guest Editor's Introduction: An Arab World in Transition, Political Changes and Theoretical Discussions in a post-‘Arab Spring’ Scenario
This introductory article’s point of departure is the transformation processes that have taken place in theMiddle East since 2011. It presents perspectives in the academic discussions following the surprising events in a post-‘Arab Spring’ scenario. The Introduction emphasizes that it is the ambition of this collection of articles to discuss and make sense of the significant differences in the developments,where newgeopolitical dynamics reshape t…
Regime Adaptability and Political Reconfigurations following the Arab Spring: New Challenges for EU Foreign Policies toward the Mediterranean
The article discusses the post-Arab Spring scenario in the MENA region and the EU policies in relation to the changing realities. I contend that the authoritarian states have demonstrated abilities to adapt to the new challenges. Through political reconfigurations the Arab states are able to maintain what some scholars have called a ‘recombinant authoritarian’ rule. The article analyzes how, faced with changes following the revolts in 2011 in the…
Old Dogs, New Tricks? The Role of Regional Organizations in the Mediterranean after the Arab Revolts
Taking its point of departure in how specific regional organizations function and interact in the Mediterranean, this article attempts to show to what degree this institutional setup has influenced the developments in the Arab Mediterranean states after the Arab revolts. The analysis of the organizational and institutional setup in the Mediterranean is theoretically founded in the new institutionalism tradition. Furthermore, a regionalism perspec…
Bringing People Back in Politics: The Role of Civil Society, Political Parties, and Regional Organizations in a Changing Middle East
The Introduction briefly presents the ideas behind this collection of articles, namely to analyze popular mobilization and the role of civil society, political parties, and regional organizations in relation to the developments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the last years, and to discuss theoretical approaches and paradigms of relevance for the analysis of these new regional dynamics. The MENA region experienced, in connection w…
The EU and the Syrian Crisis: The Use of Sanctions and the Regime's Strategy for Survival
The Syrian crisis has from May 2011 and onwards been met by the EU with rounds of tightening sanctions attempting to put pressure on the Syrian regime and the elites surrounding it. Based on a typology for the sanctions and a periodization showing how the measures have proceeded, the article discusses the EU sanctions and to what degree they have influenced the situation in Syria. Furthermore, the article sheds light on regional and international…
The Iranian Revolution, 1977–79: Interaction and Transformation
Within a short time after the Iranian revolution of 1977-79, a number of studies were published concerning the dramatic process. It was presumably the spectacular turn of events, comprehensive media coverage, and relatively long period of time over which the revolution took place that enhanced the attention it received, and still receives from academic research. Taking its point of departure in theories of revolution by Theda Skocpol, this articl…
EU Strategic Interests in Post‐Qadhafi Libya: Perspectives for Cooperation
Migration, Security, and Citizenship in the Middle East: New Perspectives
This volume addresses new tendencies related to migration from a Middle Eastern and Mediterranean perspective and with an emphasis on security and citizenship. Contributors aim not only to intervene i
Union for the Mediterranean —Pragmatic Multilateralism and the Depoliticization of EU-Middle Eastern Relations
The EU as a realist actor in normative clothes: EU democracy promotion in Lebanon and the European Neighbourhood Policy
The article takes recent research on the difficulties for the EU in successfully promoting democracy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as its point of departure, with a specific focus on the European Neighbourhood Policy EU-Lebanon Action Plan. It is shown that, in spite of the fact that Lebanon does not present the same authoritarian institutions and character as most of the other countries in the region, the EU seems to have dif…
European Union's Democratization Agenda in the Mediterranean
The EU's democratization agenda in the Mediterranean: A Critical Inside-Out Approach
Democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains a central pillar of the foreign policy of both the European Union (EU) and the United States (US), despite the failure of ‘democracy by imposition ’ in Iraq. A recent relative military success in fighting insurgents still leaves a problematic political reality where war
The Patient: A Story
The EU as a realist actor in normative clothes: EU democracy promotion in Lebanon and the European Neighbourhood Policy
The article takes recent research on the difficulties for the EU in successfully promoting democracy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as its point of departure, with a specific focus on the European Neighbourhood Policy EU-Lebanon Action Plan. It is shown that, in spite of the fact that Lebanon does not present the same authoritarian institutions and character as most of the other countries in the region, the EU seems to have dif…
The EU's democratization agenda in the Mediterranean: A Critical Inside-Out Approach
Democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains a central pillar of the foreign policy of both the European Union (EU) and the United States (US), despite the failure of ‘democracy by imposition ’ in Iraq. A recent relative military success in fighting insurgents still leaves a problematic political reality where war
Syrian refugees in Jordan and their integration in the labour market: Jordanian migration diplomacy and EU incentives
Framing the analysis in Jordan’s foreign and security policy, this article discusses Jordanian migration diplomacy in relation to incentives offered by the EU. It is demonstrated that the unstable situation resulting from the long-lasting Syrian crisis has created a need for the Jordanian state to develop new political strategies, adjusting institutional policies and practices to the EU’s conditionalities regarding democratic progress and socio-e…
Introduction: Arab responses to EU foreign and security policy incentives: Perspectives on migration diplomacy and institutionalized flexibility in the Arab Mediterranean turned upside down
Based on analyses of the migration policies of Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco, the overall idea behind this themed issue is to present a comparative study of responses by Arab Mediterranean states to EU foreign and security policy incentives. The themed issue draws on a historical institutionalist line of thought analysing how the given state-to-EU relationships develop or change over time and how institutions form part of and respond to new…
From Mobility Partnerships to Migration Compacts: Security implications of EU-Jordan relations and the informalization of migration governance
Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa entailed a proliferation of policy tools for EU external migration governance. After the signature of Mobility Partnerships, the EU launched Migration Compacts, whose inner logic is to ‘avoid the risk that concrete delivery is held up by technical negotiations for a fully-fledged formal agreement’. This paper examines the development of the EU’s external migration governance and frames it into a f…
The EU and the Syrian Crisis: The Use of Sanctions and the Regime's Strategy for Survival
The Syrian crisis has from May 2011 and onwards been met by the EU with rounds of tightening sanctions attempting to put pressure on the Syrian regime and the elites surrounding it. Based on a typology for the sanctions and a periodization showing how the measures have proceeded, the article discusses the EU sanctions and to what degree they have influenced the situation in Syria. Furthermore, the article sheds light on regional and international…
Regime Adaptability and Political Reconfigurations following the Arab Spring: New Challenges for EU Foreign Policies toward the Mediterranean
The article discusses the post-Arab Spring scenario in the MENA region and the EU policies in relation to the changing realities. I contend that the authoritarian states have demonstrated abilities to adapt to the new challenges. Through political reconfigurations the Arab states are able to maintain what some scholars have called a ‘recombinant authoritarian’ rule. The article analyzes how, faced with changes following the revolts in 2011 in the…
EU Strategic Interests in Post‐Qadhafi Libya: Perspectives for Cooperation
Union for the Mediterranean —Pragmatic Multilateralism and the Depoliticization of EU-Middle Eastern Relations
Transnationalism and exceptional transition processes. The role of the Libyan diaspora from Qadhafi’s Jamahiriyya to post-revolutionary civil war and state collapse
The article analyses to what extent the Libyan diaspora was able to influence political processes in Libya under Muammar Qadhafi during the revolution in 2011 and after the fall of the regime. It is shown that the Libyan diaspora played a limited role when the Jamahiriyya, a repressive system of congresses and committees invented by Qadhafi, controlled the Libyan state. The regime drove most of the opposition out of the country, and from abroad a…
Guest Editor's Introduction: An Arab World in Transition, Political Changes and Theoretical Discussions in a post-‘Arab Spring’ Scenario
This introductory article’s point of departure is the transformation processes that have taken place in theMiddle East since 2011. It presents perspectives in the academic discussions following the surprising events in a post-‘Arab Spring’ scenario. The Introduction emphasizes that it is the ambition of this collection of articles to discuss and make sense of the significant differences in the developments,where newgeopolitical dynamics reshape t…
The Patient: A Story
The Patient: A Story
The EU as a realist actor in normative clothes: EU democracy promotion in Lebanon and the European Neighbourhood Policy
The article takes recent research on the difficulties for the EU in successfully promoting democracy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as its point of departure, with a specific focus on the European Neighbourhood Policy EU-Lebanon Action Plan. It is shown that, in spite of the fact that Lebanon does not present the same authoritarian institutions and character as most of the other countries in the region, the EU seems to have dif…
European Union's Democratization Agenda in the Mediterranean
The EU's democratization agenda in the Mediterranean: A Critical Inside-Out Approach
Democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains a central pillar of the foreign policy of both the European Union (EU) and the United States (US), despite the failure of ‘democracy by imposition ’ in Iraq. A recent relative military success in fighting insurgents still leaves a problematic political reality where war
Union for the Mediterranean —Pragmatic Multilateralism and the Depoliticization of EU-Middle Eastern Relations
Migration, Security, and Citizenship in the Middle East: New Perspectives
This volume addresses new tendencies related to migration from a Middle Eastern and Mediterranean perspective and with an emphasis on security and citizenship. Contributors aim not only to intervene i
The EU and the Syrian Crisis: The Use of Sanctions and the Regime's Strategy for Survival
The Syrian crisis has from May 2011 and onwards been met by the EU with rounds of tightening sanctions attempting to put pressure on the Syrian regime and the elites surrounding it. Based on a typology for the sanctions and a periodization showing how the measures have proceeded, the article discusses the EU sanctions and to what degree they have influenced the situation in Syria. Furthermore, the article sheds light on regional and international…
The Iranian Revolution, 1977–79: Interaction and Transformation
Within a short time after the Iranian revolution of 1977-79, a number of studies were published concerning the dramatic process. It was presumably the spectacular turn of events, comprehensive media coverage, and relatively long period of time over which the revolution took place that enhanced the attention it received, and still receives from academic research. Taking its point of departure in theories of revolution by Theda Skocpol, this articl…
EU Strategic Interests in Post‐Qadhafi Libya: Perspectives for Cooperation
Guest Editor's Introduction: An Arab World in Transition, Political Changes and Theoretical Discussions in a post-‘Arab Spring’ Scenario
This introductory article’s point of departure is the transformation processes that have taken place in theMiddle East since 2011. It presents perspectives in the academic discussions following the surprising events in a post-‘Arab Spring’ scenario. The Introduction emphasizes that it is the ambition of this collection of articles to discuss and make sense of the significant differences in the developments,where newgeopolitical dynamics reshape t…
Regime Adaptability and Political Reconfigurations following the Arab Spring: New Challenges for EU Foreign Policies toward the Mediterranean
The article discusses the post-Arab Spring scenario in the MENA region and the EU policies in relation to the changing realities. I contend that the authoritarian states have demonstrated abilities to adapt to the new challenges. Through political reconfigurations the Arab states are able to maintain what some scholars have called a ‘recombinant authoritarian’ rule. The article analyzes how, faced with changes following the revolts in 2011 in the…
Old Dogs, New Tricks? The Role of Regional Organizations in the Mediterranean after the Arab Revolts
Taking its point of departure in how specific regional organizations function and interact in the Mediterranean, this article attempts to show to what degree this institutional setup has influenced the developments in the Arab Mediterranean states after the Arab revolts. The analysis of the organizational and institutional setup in the Mediterranean is theoretically founded in the new institutionalism tradition. Furthermore, a regionalism perspec…
Bringing People Back in Politics: The Role of Civil Society, Political Parties, and Regional Organizations in a Changing Middle East
The Introduction briefly presents the ideas behind this collection of articles, namely to analyze popular mobilization and the role of civil society, political parties, and regional organizations in relation to the developments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the last years, and to discuss theoretical approaches and paradigms of relevance for the analysis of these new regional dynamics. The MENA region experienced, in connection w…
The Levant in Turmoil: Syria, Palestine, and the Transformation of Middle Eastern Politics
Since the early weeks of the so-called Arab Spring, high hopes for democratic, social, and political change in the Middle East have been met with varying degrees of frustration. In the sub-region of t
EU Policies in the Mashreq: Between Integration and Security Partnership
Transnationalism and exceptional transition processes. The role of the Libyan diaspora from Qadhafi’s Jamahiriyya to post-revolutionary civil war and state collapse
The article analyses to what extent the Libyan diaspora was able to influence political processes in Libya under Muammar Qadhafi during the revolution in 2011 and after the fall of the regime. It is shown that the Libyan diaspora played a limited role when the Jamahiriyya, a repressive system of congresses and committees invented by Qadhafi, controlled the Libyan state. The regime drove most of the opposition out of the country, and from abroad a…
The EU and the Mideast Order: Ideology vs. Power Balancing
In the foreword to the “Global Strategy for the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy” (EUGS), Federica Mogherini, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy at the time, states, The idea that Europe is an exclusively “civilian power ” does not do justice to an evolving reality.... For Europe, soft and hard power go hand in hand.1 There is no doubt that the EU has significant potential when it comes to soft power. A…
Introduction: Arab responses to EU foreign and security policy incentives: Perspectives on migration diplomacy and institutionalized flexibility in the Arab Mediterranean turned upside down
Based on analyses of the migration policies of Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco, the overall idea behind this themed issue is to present a comparative study of responses by Arab Mediterranean states to EU foreign and security policy incentives. The themed issue draws on a historical institutionalist line of thought analysing how the given state-to-EU relationships develop or change over time and how institutions form part of and respond to new…
Syrian refugees in Jordan and their integration in the labour market: Jordanian migration diplomacy and EU incentives
Framing the analysis in Jordan’s foreign and security policy, this article discusses Jordanian migration diplomacy in relation to incentives offered by the EU. It is demonstrated that the unstable situation resulting from the long-lasting Syrian crisis has created a need for the Jordanian state to develop new political strategies, adjusting institutional policies and practices to the EU’s conditionalities regarding democratic progress and socio-e…
From Mobility Partnerships to Migration Compacts: Security implications of EU-Jordan relations and the informalization of migration governance
Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa entailed a proliferation of policy tools for EU external migration governance. After the signature of Mobility Partnerships, the EU launched Migration Compacts, whose inner logic is to ‘avoid the risk that concrete delivery is held up by technical negotiations for a fully-fledged formal agreement’. This paper examines the development of the EU’s external migration governance and frames it into a f…
Israeli Hydro‐Hegemony and the Gaza War
This article analyzes the vicious cycle of Israel's control of water resources in Jordan and the Palestinian territories, the development of a one‐state reality in the region, and geopolitical changes driven by the Israeli occupation and the war in Gaza. Israel no longer suffers from water shortages, but its domination of Palestine and the conflict sparked by Hamas have increased the yawning water deficit. This has played a role in the decades‐lo…
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