Bio
Abdullah al-Jabassini is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe
CIVICA Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Central European University, Vienna
Abdullah al-Jabassini is a CIVICA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Central European University in Vienna and a former Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury. Al-Jabassini is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C, and an Associate Researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies in Bonn.
His primary expertise lies in international relations, political violence and civil war, wartime social order, third-party intervention in civil conflicts, authoritarian conflict management, peacebuilding and reconciliation processes, rebel-military integration, and local governance in areas of limited statehood, with a deep focus on Syria and the Middle East.
Courses
- Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East
This course aims to study the multifaceted and complex relationship between Europe/the European Union and the states of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Starting with the history of European colonialism in the Middle East, the course will examine the post-colonial policies of single European states towards the region, together with the declarations, policies and practices of the European Community, and later European Union, from the 1970s onwards. Suggesting a widely overlooked degree of interconnectedness between Europe and the Middle East, special attention will be paid to Europe-Middle East relations in the realms of trade, migration and border control, security cooperation and democracy promotion. The conceptualisation of the policies of the EU and of single MENA states, together with questions pertaining to power relations, interdependence and leverage in Europe-Middle East relations will also be discussed.
