Elai Rettig
Biographic Data
| ID | 4380441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elai Rettig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elai |
| FAMILY NAME | Rettig |
| SIGNATURE | RETTIG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8689-1603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The water and the fish: Counterinsurgency models for Climate-induced violence
Solar energy as national security in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Although territorial conflict is often cited as an inhibitor of renewable energy adoption, solar technologies have become an integral part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This study examines how Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas have used solar energy as a tool to advance their respective security priorities in nationally contested territories, often at the expense of other economic or environmental considerations. Within the cont…
Energy infrastructures in divided cities
Within the rich literature on politically divided cities, infrastructure has rarely featured as a medium of urban contestation. Only transportation infrastructure has merited attention of late. This paper presents an in-depth investigation of energy infrastructures as instruments of separation, control and collaboration in three iconic divided cities: Berlin, Jerusalem and Nicosia. The purpose of the paper is threefold: 1) to identify the multipl…
Oil shocks and trade networks: How Israel, South Korea, and Poland leveraged oil imports to access new regional markets
Studies on oil price shocks focus either on their macroeconomic consequences or on their effects on bilateral political relations between major oil suppliers and consumers. However, they overlook the effect of these shocks on second-degree political and economic relations created through oil trade on the margins of the market. This study examines how periods of price shocks in the global oil markets allow non-major oil importers to increase their…
Israel’s oil import policy following the wars in Ukraine and Gaza
Reflections on our article ‘Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field’
This perspective addresses the arguments and concerns raised following the publication of our article, ‘Postwar Development of Offshore Energy Resources’. It aims to demonstrate how the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024, which was released after the writing of our article, strengthens our legal conclusion that the Palestinians maintain exclusive rights to develop the Gaza Marine gas field. This perspective also clari…
The paradox of permission: Why governments allow foreign actors to promote solar energy projects in disputed cities
When regional energy cooperation fails: Learning from the struggles of Northeast Asia’s joint oil import mechanism
The question of why some regions reject energy cooperation initiatives that aim to improve their overall security of supply puzzles scholars and policymakers advocating for deeper regional integration through energy trade. This was the case in Northeast Asia, where efforts to create a joint oil import mechanism to improve China, South Korea and Japan's collective bargaining power against Middle East suppliers repeatedly failed and turned instead …
Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field
This article examines the case of Gaza Marine, a small offshore natural gas reservoir in Gaza that has remained undeveloped since its discovery in 2000. Due to the complicated political status of the Gaza Strip over the past two decades, neither the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, nor Israel could claim full rights to Gaza’s maritime zones or develop the Gaza Marine field. However, the devastating 2023 Israel-Hamas war created four possible scenari…
How small states break oil sanctions: Israel’s oil import strategy in the 1970s
This article argues that small oil-importing states are particularly adept at circumventing oil sanctions and leveraging them to further expand their own markets. It points to the unique advantages and necessary preconditions that make small states successful in their search for 'sanctions busters' in the global oil market, especially when approaching countries that recently became oil exporters. Using declassified Israeli, British and US archiva…
Securitizing Energy Cooperation: Israel's Regional Shift in the East-Mediterranean
Does energy securitization promote or hinder regional cooperation over energy resources? This paper argues that policymakers frame energy issues as existential threats to facilitate both outcomes, depending on how they perceive the reliability of their country's energy supply. When countries are confident in their supply, they begin to seek regional cooperation opportunities that they had previously rejected. Rather than abandon existential rheto…
Crude Peace: The Role of Oil Trade in the Israeli-Egyptian Peace Negotiations
Does trading oil promote peace between rival countries? Despite the optimism of liberal theories on the value of economic interdependence, countries worry more about the possibility of being cut off from vital oil supplies than about forgoing the potential economic gains of trade. The 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace is an exception to this rule, as the inclusion of oil trade agreements during negotiations succeeded and eventually became a positive as…
Limits to cooperation: Why Israel does not want to become a member of the International Energy Agency
This article examines the reasons why the Israeli government chose not to apply for membership in the International Energy Agency (IEA), though it has been eligible to do so since 2010. The many benefits the IEA has to offer Israel in terms of enhancing its energy sector’s security, advancing environmental policies, and further integrating it with international markets and standards indicate that Israel would be wise to join the agency. A number …
The Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in the “Battle over Framing”: The Case of the Israeli–West Bank Separation Barrier
Current studies focusing on the media’s coverage of international conflicts have largely overlooked the important role that intergovernmental bodies may play in their framing. Still missing is an examination of how and to what degree do actions performed by such bodies help define the way journalists report on ongoing conflicts. We claim that in the absence of credible state actors to rely on for information during conflict, journalists will turn…
Crude Peace: The Role of Oil Trade in the Israeli-Egyptian Peace Negotiations
Does trading oil promote peace between rival countries? Despite the optimism of liberal theories on the value of economic interdependence, countries worry more about the possibility of being cut off from vital oil supplies than about forgoing the potential economic gains of trade. The 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace is an exception to this rule, as the inclusion of oil trade agreements during negotiations succeeded and eventually became a positive as…
Securitizing Energy Cooperation: Israel's Regional Shift in the East-Mediterranean
Does energy securitization promote or hinder regional cooperation over energy resources? This paper argues that policymakers frame energy issues as existential threats to facilitate both outcomes, depending on how they perceive the reliability of their country's energy supply. When countries are confident in their supply, they begin to seek regional cooperation opportunities that they had previously rejected. Rather than abandon existential rheto…
The paradox of permission: Why governments allow foreign actors to promote solar energy projects in disputed cities
Limits to cooperation: Why Israel does not want to become a member of the International Energy Agency
This article examines the reasons why the Israeli government chose not to apply for membership in the International Energy Agency (IEA), though it has been eligible to do so since 2010. The many benefits the IEA has to offer Israel in terms of enhancing its energy sector’s security, advancing environmental policies, and further integrating it with international markets and standards indicate that Israel would be wise to join the agency. A number …
The Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in the “Battle over Framing”: The Case of the Israeli–West Bank Separation Barrier
Current studies focusing on the media’s coverage of international conflicts have largely overlooked the important role that intergovernmental bodies may play in their framing. Still missing is an examination of how and to what degree do actions performed by such bodies help define the way journalists report on ongoing conflicts. We claim that in the absence of credible state actors to rely on for information during conflict, journalists will turn…
Limits to cooperation: Why Israel does not want to become a member of the International Energy Agency
This article examines the reasons why the Israeli government chose not to apply for membership in the International Energy Agency (IEA), though it has been eligible to do so since 2010. The many benefits the IEA has to offer Israel in terms of enhancing its energy sector’s security, advancing environmental policies, and further integrating it with international markets and standards indicate that Israel would be wise to join the agency. A number …
Crude Peace: The Role of Oil Trade in the Israeli-Egyptian Peace Negotiations
Does trading oil promote peace between rival countries? Despite the optimism of liberal theories on the value of economic interdependence, countries worry more about the possibility of being cut off from vital oil supplies than about forgoing the potential economic gains of trade. The 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace is an exception to this rule, as the inclusion of oil trade agreements during negotiations succeeded and eventually became a positive as…
Securitizing Energy Cooperation: Israel's Regional Shift in the East-Mediterranean
Does energy securitization promote or hinder regional cooperation over energy resources? This paper argues that policymakers frame energy issues as existential threats to facilitate both outcomes, depending on how they perceive the reliability of their country's energy supply. When countries are confident in their supply, they begin to seek regional cooperation opportunities that they had previously rejected. Rather than abandon existential rheto…
The paradox of permission: Why governments allow foreign actors to promote solar energy projects in disputed cities
When regional energy cooperation fails: Learning from the struggles of Northeast Asia’s joint oil import mechanism
The question of why some regions reject energy cooperation initiatives that aim to improve their overall security of supply puzzles scholars and policymakers advocating for deeper regional integration through energy trade. This was the case in Northeast Asia, where efforts to create a joint oil import mechanism to improve China, South Korea and Japan's collective bargaining power against Middle East suppliers repeatedly failed and turned instead …
Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field
This article examines the case of Gaza Marine, a small offshore natural gas reservoir in Gaza that has remained undeveloped since its discovery in 2000. Due to the complicated political status of the Gaza Strip over the past two decades, neither the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, nor Israel could claim full rights to Gaza’s maritime zones or develop the Gaza Marine field. However, the devastating 2023 Israel-Hamas war created four possible scenari…
How small states break oil sanctions: Israel’s oil import strategy in the 1970s
This article argues that small oil-importing states are particularly adept at circumventing oil sanctions and leveraging them to further expand their own markets. It points to the unique advantages and necessary preconditions that make small states successful in their search for 'sanctions busters' in the global oil market, especially when approaching countries that recently became oil exporters. Using declassified Israeli, British and US archiva…
Energy infrastructures in divided cities
Within the rich literature on politically divided cities, infrastructure has rarely featured as a medium of urban contestation. Only transportation infrastructure has merited attention of late. This paper presents an in-depth investigation of energy infrastructures as instruments of separation, control and collaboration in three iconic divided cities: Berlin, Jerusalem and Nicosia. The purpose of the paper is threefold: 1) to identify the multipl…
Oil shocks and trade networks: How Israel, South Korea, and Poland leveraged oil imports to access new regional markets
Studies on oil price shocks focus either on their macroeconomic consequences or on their effects on bilateral political relations between major oil suppliers and consumers. However, they overlook the effect of these shocks on second-degree political and economic relations created through oil trade on the margins of the market. This study examines how periods of price shocks in the global oil markets allow non-major oil importers to increase their…
Israel’s oil import policy following the wars in Ukraine and Gaza
Reflections on our article ‘Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field’
This perspective addresses the arguments and concerns raised following the publication of our article, ‘Postwar Development of Offshore Energy Resources’. It aims to demonstrate how the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024, which was released after the writing of our article, strengthens our legal conclusion that the Palestinians maintain exclusive rights to develop the Gaza Marine gas field. This perspective also clari…
The water and the fish: Counterinsurgency models for Climate-induced violence
Solar energy as national security in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Although territorial conflict is often cited as an inhibitor of renewable energy adoption, solar technologies have become an integral part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This study examines how Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas have used solar energy as a tool to advance their respective security priorities in nationally contested territories, often at the expense of other economic or environmental considerations. Within the cont…
Political science (10 works) · Global Energy Security and Policy (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · International trade (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Energy (signal processing (4 works) · Physics (4 works)