Eckart Woertz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eckart Woertz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eckart |
| FAMILY NAME | Woertz |
| SIGNATURE | WOERTZ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9526-2668 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Russian geonarratives and Arab media: Multipolarity, Eurasianism and constructed ‘non-Wests’
The global order is in flux towards multipolarity, a process that is accompanied by an increasingly diverse narration of geopolitical imaginaries. Russia and the Arab world are key regions of contestation in that process with a long mutual history of entanglements. This article uses the concept of geonarratives and a dataset of nearly 3000 newspaper articles from Egypt, the Gulf countries, Iraq and Lebanon to analyse the space framing assumptions…
Unlikely Companions of Energy Transitions? Opportunities and Challenges of Triangular Cooperation Between the EU, the GCC, and Hydrocarbon‐Poor Countries From the Middle East and North Africa (Mena)
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a pivotal region for attempts at transitioning away from hydrocarbons. With the claimed objective of achieving more equitable and effective development cooperation, US and European policymakers, and most notably the OECD, advocate for shifting away from established North‐South bilateral cooperation to North‐South‐South triangular cooperation (TC). This paper explores the opportunities and challenges of T…
Critical intervention points for European adaptation to cascading climate change impacts
In an interconnected world, climate change impacts can cascade across sectors and regions, creating systemic risks. Here we analyse cascading climate change impacts on the EU, originating from outside the region, and identify critical intervention points for adaptation. Using network analysis, we integrate stakeholder-co-produced impact chains with quantitative data for 102 countries across foreign policy, human security, trade and finance. Our a…
Europe’s Brazil? How Ukraine could transform Europe’s role in global food supply
Ukraine is an untapped asset.It presents opportunities both nationally and for Europe as an engine of foreign policy in a century troubled by climate change and resources scarcity.Its 32 million ha of arable could easily become 40 million ha which would add 25% of new cropland to the European Union -from 160 million to 200 million ha -making Europe the world's largest agricultural producer.And 65% of Ukraine is Chernozem: the best soil in the wor…
The Iraq War as a War over the Meaning of Europe
The Iraq War of 2003–11 has been described as a conflict over the meaning of Europe and between the conflicting goals of cementing the transatlantic relationship with the United States and advancing a more independent, "Carolingian" vision of the continent on the world stage. This article employs the analytical lens of foreign policy role conceptions, drawing from French and German policy literature, newly available archival evidence, and intervi…
Special Issue Introduction
Narratives of Global Order and Re-Ordering from the Global South
The global order is shifting from a unipolar world dominated by the West to a multipolar one with Asia emerging as a major centre of gravity. Narratives of order and re-ordering are powerful tools that shape policy agendas and enable local, national, and global actors to make sense of contemporary or historical orders or changes in those orders. Such narratives emanating from the Global North have dominated Social Science fields such as Internati…
The Past is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past: History and Memory in Iraq Studies
The history of modern Iraq has been marked by violence, oppression, and foreign interventions to a degree that stands out even among other war-torn countries. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, many retrospectives were still dominated by a US-centric navel gazing of the chattering classes inside the beltway, but more Iraqi voices and alternative viewpoints were present in op-eds and articles than a decade earl…
Resilience, conflict and areas of limited statehood in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria
In a context of areas of limited statehood and contested order, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria have been affected by similar diffuse global and more specific regional and local risks over the past two decades. Yet they differ in outcomes. Lebanon has not descended into civil war despite fears that the one raging in Syria might spill over to its territory and Iraq has coped better over the past decade than Syria has - despite having been subject to vario…
Populism and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation: The Barcelona Process 25 years after
A populist surge in Europe is affecting Euro-Mediterranean cooperation 25 years after the Barcelona Process was launched, reinforcing existing trends of de-Europeanization and renationalization of foreign policies. This article analyses the landscape of political contestation of Mediterranean cooperation in Europe in a new age of populism, focusing on France, Italy and Spain as well as the Visegrad 4 states that have turned from bystanders to vet…
Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa
Iraq under UN Embargo, 1990–2003: Food Security, Agriculture, and Regime Survival
Using Iraqi archival resources and newspapers, this article analyzes strategic perceptions of the multilateral United Nations embargo (1990–2003) by Saddam Husayn and his Ba'th Party. It shows how the regime prioritized agricultural self-sufficiency to break the embargo, used food rationing to avert famine, and instrumentalized food trade to reward cronies and punish opponents. Food security, hydropolitics, and agriculture ranked prominently in r…
Environmental Politics in the Middle East
This book investigates how ecology and politics meet in the Middle East and how those interactions connect to the global political economy. Through region-wide analyses and case studies from the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf of Aden, the Levant and North Africa, the volume highlights the intimate connections of environmental activism, energy infrastructure and illicit commodity trading with the political economies of Central Asia, the Horn of Afric…
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Middle East and North Africa
This book discusses key issues concerning water, energy and food in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It provides an interdisciplinary account of current developments in the most water-scarce and conflict-torn region in the world. Key analysts on MENA water, agriculture and energy affairs have been drawn together to compile one of the first edited volumes dedicated to the crucial role of water, energy and food security in the 21st c…
The Gulf Monarchies and Climate Change: Abu Dhabi and Qatar in an Era of Natural Unsustainability
Agriculture as a funding source of Isis: A GIS and remote sensing analysis
Agriculture is an important source of income for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), which currently rules over large parts of the breadbaskets of the two countries. It has received limited attention compared to other sources of ISIS revenues such as oil, looting, ransom, foreign donations and various forms of taxation. We estimate winter crops production of wheat and barley in ISIS-controlled areas in both Syria and Iraq for the years 20…
Environment, Food Security and Conflict Narratives in the Middle East
The article questions neo-Malthusian theories that attempt to explain conflict and food security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as the consequence of environmental stress factors like water scarcity, drought and climate change. Instead it argues that socio-political factors are key in understanding conflicts in the region. The environment is a quintessentially human category and susceptible to adaptation, not an external variable that…
Mining strategies in the Middle East and North Africa
This article provides a mapping exercise of the economic importance of non-hydrocarbon minerals (nhm) in the Middle East and North Africa (mena) and shows how governments in the region increasingly perceive them as strategic resources. The focus is on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, Turkey, Morocco and Iran. nhm like iron ore, phosphates, aluminium and uranium are important for development models in the region, either as export commodities…
Oil for Food: The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East
In the wake of the global food crisis of 2008 Middle Eastern oil producers announced multi-billion investments to secure food supplies from abroad. Often called land grabs, such investments are at the heart of the global food security challenge and put the Middle East in the spotlight of simultaneous global crises in the fields of food, finance, and energy. Water scarcity here is most pronounced, import dependence growing, and the links between o…
Ethiopian Wheat and American Tires: Gulf Food Security and World War II
Vulnerability to food import disruptions has been part of the collective consciousness in the Gulf throughout the twentieth century. World War II offers an interesting case study for how such memories have shaped policies in subsequent decades. It constituted the apogee of a regional food trade that had developed since the nineteenth century and gave way to an international system of food surplus disposal by developed countries after the war. The…
The Governance of Gulf Agro-Investments
In the wake of the 2008 global food crisis and export restrictions imposed by major food exporters, Gulf states announced plans for foreign agro-investments, including major land deals, in the name of national of food security. Media reporting has often conveyed an inaccurate picture of these land deals since project implementation has lagged far behind official announcements. This essay analyzes Gulf states' land deals against the backdrop of do…
Agriculture as a funding source of Isis: A GIS and remote sensing analysis
Agriculture is an important source of income for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), which currently rules over large parts of the breadbaskets of the two countries. It has received limited attention compared to other sources of ISIS revenues such as oil, looting, ransom, foreign donations and various forms of taxation. We estimate winter crops production of wheat and barley in ISIS-controlled areas in both Syria and Iraq for the years 20…
The Governance of Gulf Agro-Investments
In the wake of the 2008 global food crisis and export restrictions imposed by major food exporters, Gulf states announced plans for foreign agro-investments, including major land deals, in the name of national of food security. Media reporting has often conveyed an inaccurate picture of these land deals since project implementation has lagged far behind official announcements. This essay analyzes Gulf states' land deals against the backdrop of do…
Iraq under UN Embargo, 1990–2003: Food Security, Agriculture, and Regime Survival
Using Iraqi archival resources and newspapers, this article analyzes strategic perceptions of the multilateral United Nations embargo (1990–2003) by Saddam Husayn and his Ba'th Party. It shows how the regime prioritized agricultural self-sufficiency to break the embargo, used food rationing to avert famine, and instrumentalized food trade to reward cronies and punish opponents. Food security, hydropolitics, and agriculture ranked prominently in r…
Resilience, conflict and areas of limited statehood in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria
In a context of areas of limited statehood and contested order, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria have been affected by similar diffuse global and more specific regional and local risks over the past two decades. Yet they differ in outcomes. Lebanon has not descended into civil war despite fears that the one raging in Syria might spill over to its territory and Iraq has coped better over the past decade than Syria has - despite having been subject to vario…
Populism and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation: The Barcelona Process 25 years after
A populist surge in Europe is affecting Euro-Mediterranean cooperation 25 years after the Barcelona Process was launched, reinforcing existing trends of de-Europeanization and renationalization of foreign policies. This article analyses the landscape of political contestation of Mediterranean cooperation in Europe in a new age of populism, focusing on France, Italy and Spain as well as the Visegrad 4 states that have turned from bystanders to vet…
Mining strategies in the Middle East and North Africa
This article provides a mapping exercise of the economic importance of non-hydrocarbon minerals (nhm) in the Middle East and North Africa (mena) and shows how governments in the region increasingly perceive them as strategic resources. The focus is on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, Turkey, Morocco and Iran. nhm like iron ore, phosphates, aluminium and uranium are important for development models in the region, either as export commodities…
Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa
Environment, Food Security and Conflict Narratives in the Middle East
The article questions neo-Malthusian theories that attempt to explain conflict and food security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as the consequence of environmental stress factors like water scarcity, drought and climate change. Instead it argues that socio-political factors are key in understanding conflicts in the region. The environment is a quintessentially human category and susceptible to adaptation, not an external variable that…
Oil for Food: The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East
In the wake of the global food crisis of 2008 Middle Eastern oil producers announced multi-billion investments to secure food supplies from abroad. Often called land grabs, such investments are at the heart of the global food security challenge and put the Middle East in the spotlight of simultaneous global crises in the fields of food, finance, and energy. Water scarcity here is most pronounced, import dependence growing, and the links between o…
Ethiopian Wheat and American Tires: Gulf Food Security and World War II
Vulnerability to food import disruptions has been part of the collective consciousness in the Gulf throughout the twentieth century. World War II offers an interesting case study for how such memories have shaped policies in subsequent decades. It constituted the apogee of a regional food trade that had developed since the nineteenth century and gave way to an international system of food surplus disposal by developed countries after the war. The…
The Governance of Gulf Agro-Investments
In the wake of the 2008 global food crisis and export restrictions imposed by major food exporters, Gulf states announced plans for foreign agro-investments, including major land deals, in the name of national of food security. Media reporting has often conveyed an inaccurate picture of these land deals since project implementation has lagged far behind official announcements. This essay analyzes Gulf states' land deals against the backdrop of do…
Environment, Food Security and Conflict Narratives in the Middle East
The article questions neo-Malthusian theories that attempt to explain conflict and food security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as the consequence of environmental stress factors like water scarcity, drought and climate change. Instead it argues that socio-political factors are key in understanding conflicts in the region. The environment is a quintessentially human category and susceptible to adaptation, not an external variable that…
Mining strategies in the Middle East and North Africa
This article provides a mapping exercise of the economic importance of non-hydrocarbon minerals (nhm) in the Middle East and North Africa (mena) and shows how governments in the region increasingly perceive them as strategic resources. The focus is on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, Turkey, Morocco and Iran. nhm like iron ore, phosphates, aluminium and uranium are important for development models in the region, either as export commodities…
The Gulf Monarchies and Climate Change: Abu Dhabi and Qatar in an Era of Natural Unsustainability
Agriculture as a funding source of Isis: A GIS and remote sensing analysis
Agriculture is an important source of income for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), which currently rules over large parts of the breadbaskets of the two countries. It has received limited attention compared to other sources of ISIS revenues such as oil, looting, ransom, foreign donations and various forms of taxation. We estimate winter crops production of wheat and barley in ISIS-controlled areas in both Syria and Iraq for the years 20…
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Middle East and North Africa
This book discusses key issues concerning water, energy and food in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It provides an interdisciplinary account of current developments in the most water-scarce and conflict-torn region in the world. Key analysts on MENA water, agriculture and energy affairs have been drawn together to compile one of the first edited volumes dedicated to the crucial role of water, energy and food security in the 21st c…
Environmental Politics in the Middle East
This book investigates how ecology and politics meet in the Middle East and how those interactions connect to the global political economy. Through region-wide analyses and case studies from the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf of Aden, the Levant and North Africa, the volume highlights the intimate connections of environmental activism, energy infrastructure and illicit commodity trading with the political economies of Central Asia, the Horn of Afric…
Iraq under UN Embargo, 1990–2003: Food Security, Agriculture, and Regime Survival
Using Iraqi archival resources and newspapers, this article analyzes strategic perceptions of the multilateral United Nations embargo (1990–2003) by Saddam Husayn and his Ba'th Party. It shows how the regime prioritized agricultural self-sufficiency to break the embargo, used food rationing to avert famine, and instrumentalized food trade to reward cronies and punish opponents. Food security, hydropolitics, and agriculture ranked prominently in r…
Populism and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation: The Barcelona Process 25 years after
A populist surge in Europe is affecting Euro-Mediterranean cooperation 25 years after the Barcelona Process was launched, reinforcing existing trends of de-Europeanization and renationalization of foreign policies. This article analyses the landscape of political contestation of Mediterranean cooperation in Europe in a new age of populism, focusing on France, Italy and Spain as well as the Visegrad 4 states that have turned from bystanders to vet…
Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa
Resilience, conflict and areas of limited statehood in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria
In a context of areas of limited statehood and contested order, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria have been affected by similar diffuse global and more specific regional and local risks over the past two decades. Yet they differ in outcomes. Lebanon has not descended into civil war despite fears that the one raging in Syria might spill over to its territory and Iraq has coped better over the past decade than Syria has - despite having been subject to vario…
Narratives of Global Order and Re-Ordering from the Global South
The global order is shifting from a unipolar world dominated by the West to a multipolar one with Asia emerging as a major centre of gravity. Narratives of order and re-ordering are powerful tools that shape policy agendas and enable local, national, and global actors to make sense of contemporary or historical orders or changes in those orders. Such narratives emanating from the Global North have dominated Social Science fields such as Internati…
The Past is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past: History and Memory in Iraq Studies
The history of modern Iraq has been marked by violence, oppression, and foreign interventions to a degree that stands out even among other war-torn countries. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, many retrospectives were still dominated by a US-centric navel gazing of the chattering classes inside the beltway, but more Iraqi voices and alternative viewpoints were present in op-eds and articles than a decade earl…
Europe’s Brazil? How Ukraine could transform Europe’s role in global food supply
Ukraine is an untapped asset.It presents opportunities both nationally and for Europe as an engine of foreign policy in a century troubled by climate change and resources scarcity.Its 32 million ha of arable could easily become 40 million ha which would add 25% of new cropland to the European Union -from 160 million to 200 million ha -making Europe the world's largest agricultural producer.And 65% of Ukraine is Chernozem: the best soil in the wor…
The Iraq War as a War over the Meaning of Europe
The Iraq War of 2003–11 has been described as a conflict over the meaning of Europe and between the conflicting goals of cementing the transatlantic relationship with the United States and advancing a more independent, "Carolingian" vision of the continent on the world stage. This article employs the analytical lens of foreign policy role conceptions, drawing from French and German policy literature, newly available archival evidence, and intervi…
Special Issue Introduction
Critical intervention points for European adaptation to cascading climate change impacts
In an interconnected world, climate change impacts can cascade across sectors and regions, creating systemic risks. Here we analyse cascading climate change impacts on the EU, originating from outside the region, and identify critical intervention points for adaptation. Using network analysis, we integrate stakeholder-co-produced impact chains with quantitative data for 102 countries across foreign policy, human security, trade and finance. Our a…
Russian geonarratives and Arab media: Multipolarity, Eurasianism and constructed ‘non-Wests’
The global order is in flux towards multipolarity, a process that is accompanied by an increasingly diverse narration of geopolitical imaginaries. Russia and the Arab world are key regions of contestation in that process with a long mutual history of entanglements. This article uses the concept of geonarratives and a dataset of nearly 3000 newspaper articles from Egypt, the Gulf countries, Iraq and Lebanon to analyse the space framing assumptions…
Unlikely Companions of Energy Transitions? Opportunities and Challenges of Triangular Cooperation Between the EU, the GCC, and Hydrocarbon‐Poor Countries From the Middle East and North Africa (Mena)
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a pivotal region for attempts at transitioning away from hydrocarbons. With the claimed objective of achieving more equitable and effective development cooperation, US and European policymakers, and most notably the OECD, advocate for shifting away from established North‐South bilateral cooperation to North‐South‐South triangular cooperation (TC). This paper explores the opportunities and challenges of T…
Political science (16 works) · Economics (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Economy (7 works) · Middle East (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Transboundary Water Resource Management (6 works)