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Mehdi Amineh

Field: Political sciences, International Political Economy
Country of origin: The Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2007 - 01/12/2010
Status: Senior Research fellow IIAS; Adjunct Prof. of International Relations Webster University, Leiden
Home institute: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Research topic: Domestic and Geopolitical Challenges to Energy Security for, China and the European Union

Project description

The EPA's main objective is to publish a series of articles and books in the coming years, contributing to the ongoing academic and policy debates on energy security in the 21st century. Its research focuses on the effects of global geopolitics of energy supply on East and Southeast Asia's main energy consuming countries: China, India, Japan, and South Korea. National strategies for securing supplies from the Persian Gulf (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait) and the Caspian region (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Russia) are examined, from the end of Cold War until 2030.

The EPA aims to be at the forefront of research addressing these regions, in the Netherlands, in Europe, and internationally. An inter-disciplinary team of four leading experts and 19 additional sectoral experts will carry out the research in close collaboration with local and international researchers and others in the fields of energy security, geo-politics, political science and economics.

The EPA addresses the following issues:

a) What are the effects of geopolitical competition for secure supplies of fossil energy between the main global consumer countries and oil and gas companies?

b) What strategies have the countries under study adopted to secure supplies from the Persian Gulf and Caspian region?

c) What are the main strategic alternatives and scenarios under discussion in China, India, Japan and South Korea to secure projected energy supplies, and how do they relate to US and EU strategies?

d) How can producer-consumer dialogue and regional cooperation help mitigate internal security risks in producer countries?

A core team of experts will draft each section of the study. They will work closely with smaller teams, who will provide input from their fields of expertise, thus bringing together a broad base of knowledge while safeguarding the program's overall coherence (in terms of substance and style).

The Newsletter articles
Publications

Selected Academic Publications

BOOKS

  • The Greater Middle East in Global Politics: Social Science Perspective on the Changing Geography of the World Politics (Edit and Contributor), (Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007).
  • The Greater Middle East in Global Politics: Social Science Perspective on the Changing Geography of the World Politics (Editor and Contributor), in the special issue of the Journal 'Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (PGDT), vol. 1-3, no. 6, (2007)..
  • Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development, (with Henk Houweling) (Editors and Contributors) (Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005). ‘Second Edition'
  • Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development, (with Henk Houweling) (Editors and Contributors) (Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004).
  • Globalisation, Geopolitics and Energy Security in Central Eurasia and the Caspian Region, (The Hague: Clingendael International Energy Program, 2003).
  • Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development, (with Henk Houweling) (Editors and Contributors) in the special issue of the Journal 'Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (PGDT) for vol. 2, no. 4, (December 2003).
  • Towards the Control of Oil Resources in the Caspian Region, (New York: St. Martin's Press Inc, 1999; reprint edition: 2000).
  • Die Globale Kapitalistische Expansion und Iran: (1500-1980): Eine Studie der Iranischen Politischen Ökonomie, (Hamburg-London: Lit-Verlag, 1999).
  • Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development, (with Henk Houweling) (Editors and Contributors) in the special issue of the Journal 'Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (PGDT) for vol. 2, no. 4, (December 2003).
  • Globalisation and Islam: the Rise and Decline of Islam as Political Ideology: 1850-2000s, (forthcoming).

Chapters in books and articles

  • `Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Greater Middle East', in Mehdi Parvizi Amineh (ed.) The Greater Middle East in Global Politics: Social Sciences Perspectives on the Changing Geography of the World Politics, special issue of the Journal Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, for vol. 6-, no. 1-3, (2007).
  • `IR- Theory and Transformations in the Greater Middle East: The U.S. Role', with H. Houweling, in Mehdi Parvizi Amineh (ed.) The Greater Middle East in Global Politics: Social Sciences Perspectives on the Changing Geography of the World Politics, special issue of the Journal Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, for vol. 6-, no. 1-3, (2007).
  • ` The Iranian Revolution -The Multiple Contexts of the Iranian Revolution' with Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, in Mehdi Parvizi Amineh (ed.) The Greater Middle East in Global Politics: Social Sciences Perspectives on the Changing Geography of the World Politics special issue of the Journal Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, for vol. 6-, no. 1-3, (2007).
  • ` Global Energy Security and Its Geopolitical Impediments-The Case of the Caspian Region', with Henk Houweling, in Mehdi Parvizi Amineh (ed.) The Greater Middle East in Global Politics: Social Sciences Perspectives on the Changing Geography of the World Politics, in special issue of the Journal Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, for vol. 6-, no. 1-3, (2007).
  • Challenges of Modernity: The Case of Political Islam, in Mehdi Parvizi Amineh (ed.) The Greater Middle East in Global Politics: Social Sciences Perspectives on the Changing Geography of the World Politics, special issue of the Journal Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, for vol. 6-, no. 1-3, (2007).
  • `Eurasia Central en el marco energético y geopolítico global' in Alex Gonzalez etc. Asia Central y la seguridad energética global. Nuevos actores y dinámicas en Asia Central (Barcelonia: Editorial Bellaterra, 2007).
  • `Global Energy Security and its Impediments - The case of the Caspian Region', in DAXIYANGGUO- Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Asiáticos, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Politicas, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Instituto Do Oriente, No.9 September 2006
  • `China: Macht und die Sicherheit der Energieversorgung' Wissenschaft und Frieden, Bonn, 3/2006, pp. 21-24.
  • `Die Politik der USA, der EU und Chinas in Zentralasien' Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Beilage zu Das Parlament, Bonn, ApuZ: 4/2006.
  • `The Resource Cures: Oil-Based Development in Central Asia', IIAS-Newsletter 42, (October 2006).
  • Central and East Asia in Search of Geopolitical Security, (with Kurt W. Radtke) in Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, (Tokyo: Waseda University) (No. 8, October 2005).
  • ‘The Crisis in IR-Theory: Towards a Critical Geo-politics Approach', in Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi and Henk Houweling, (eds.), Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development (Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005), pp. 1-21. ‘Second Edition'
  • ‘American Power Projections: From Colonization to Globalisation', in Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi and Henk Houweling, (eds.), Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development (Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005), pp. 25-76. ‘Second Edition'.
  • ‘Caspian Oil and Gas Resources and the Global Market', in Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi and Henk Houweling, (eds.), Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development (Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005), pp. 77-92. ‘Second Edition'.
  • ‘The US and the EU in CEA: Relations with Regional Powers', in Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi and Henk Houweling, (eds.), Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development (Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005), pp. 207-233. ‘Second Edition'.
  • ‘De Verenigde Staten en de Europese Unie in Centraal Eurasië. Relaties met regionale mogendheden', in internationale spectator, jaargang 59 - no. 1 (The Hague: Institute Clingendael, January 2005), pp. 24-29.
  • Power and Energy Supply Security in China', IIAS-Newsletter 37, (July 2005).
  • ‘Globalisation and Islam - Challenges of Modernity', in Erich Reiter (ed.) Jahrbuch für Internationale Sicherheitspolitik, (Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: MITTLER, 2004), pp. 211-229.
  • ‘All on the Way to ‘Capitalism American Style'?', (with Henk Houweling), Review Essay, in Comparative Sociology, Volume 3, issues 3-4 (Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers: 2004).
  • Study on energy supply, security and geopolitics, EU-Tender delivered to the European Union with Prof. dr. Coby van de Linde, director Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP), Aad Correlje, Dick de Jong and Kurt Radtke) (January 2004), This report was prepared for DGTRN, Contract number TREN/C1 - 06-2002, ETAP Programme.
  • ‘Demokratisierung und ihre Feinde in Iran', Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Beilage zu Das Parlament, Bonn, B 9/2004, (Februar 2004), pp. 25-29.
  • ‘Towards Rethinking Geopolitics', in Central Eurasian Studies Review (CESR), vol 3: No.1, (Cambridge: Central Eurasian Studies Society (EUSS), 2004), pp. 7-8.
  • ‘Globalisation, the State System and Regionalism: Analysing post-Cold War Security, Development and Democracy in the Mediterranean Region' (co-authored with John Grin), in Hans Gunter Brauch, Antonio Marquina, Mahmmed Selim, Peter H. Liotta, Paul Rogers (eds.) Security and the Environment in the Mediterranean in the 20th Century - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts (Berlin et al: Springer, 2003).
  • ‘The Crisis in IR-Theory: Towards a Critical Geo-politics Approach', in Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi and Henk Houweling, (eds.), Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development, special issue of the Journal Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, vol. 2, no. 4 (Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, December 2003).
  • ‘American Power Projections: From Colonization to Globalisation', in Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi and Henk Houweling, (eds.), Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development, special issue of the Journal Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, vol. 2, no. 4 (Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, December 2003), chapter 1.
  • ‘Caspian Oil and Gas Resources and the Global Market', in Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi and Henk Houweling, (eds.), Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development, special issue of the Journal Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, vol. 2, no. 4 (Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, December 2003), chapter 2.
  • ‘The US and the EU in CEA: Relations with Regional Powers', in Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi and Henk Houweling, (eds.), Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development, special issue of the Journal Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, vol. 2, no. 4 (Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, December 2003), Chapter 8.
  • `Rethinking Geopolitics in Central Eurasia', IIAS-NEWSLETTER 32, (November 2003).
  • ‘Caspian Energy: A viable alternative to the Persian Gulf?' EIAS-Briefing Papers 03/02, (Brussels: The European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS), 2003).
  • ‘Rethinking Geopolitics: Energy Security in the Eurasian Heartland in the 21st Century', in World Affairs, Special Issue, No.1, 216 (07), (Ulaanbaatar: School of Foreign Service, National University of Mongolia: 2003), pp. 5-85.
  • ‘Impact of the Caspian Energy Supply on the Global Market', Atlantish Perspectief, volume 27, no. 7/8, 2003, (The Hague: Netherlands Atlantic Association), pp. 27-33.
  • ‘Sicherheit und Entwicklung in Eurasien- neue Gedanken zur Geopolitik im Zeltalter der Globalisierung', in Erich Reiter (Hrg.) Jahrbuch für internationale Sicherheitspolitik, (Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: Mittler, 2002), pp. 267-301.
  • ‘Konflikt und Kooperation um die Kontrolle der Erdölressourcen in der Post-Sowjetischen Region Eurasien: Türkei, Iran und Russland' in Erich Reiter (Hrg.) Jahrbuch für internationale Sicherheitspolitik, (Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: Mittler, 2000:) pp. 575-620.
  • ‘Post-Soviet Geopolitics in Central Eurasia', IIAS-Newsletter-29, (November 2002).
  • ‘Kazakhstan: een historisch, cultureel en politiek overzicht van de Republiek Kazakhstan', bijdrage voor de toespraak van hare Majesteit de Koningin der Nederlanden, ter gelegenheid van het Staatsbezoek aan President Nazerbaiev van Kazakhstan, op 27 november 2002.
  • ‘Eurasia in Transition', in Development Issues: Institute of Social Studies, Volume 4, no. 2, (August 2002).
  • ‘Geopolitiek van energiebronnen in de Kaspische regio' (Geopolitics of energy sources in the Caspian Sea Region), in Internationale Spectator, LVI - no. 2 (February 2002), pp. 81-89.
  • ‘Der Islam und die Iranische Revolution (1978/79)' Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Beilage zu Das Parlament, Bonn, B 19/99, (Mai, 2000), pp. 14-26.
  • ‘Unfinished Passive Revolution and Capitalist Development in Underdevelopment Areas of Global Capitalist System', Working Paper, No. 52, Amsterdam International Studies: Department of International Relations and Public Law, University of Amsterdam, (1998), pp. 45.

Encyclopedias Articles

  • ‘Azerbaijan', in Encyclopaedia of the World's Minorities (EWM) (2004), Carl Skutsch (Project Editor) (New York and London: Routledge).
  • ‘Frantz Fanon' in Encyclopaedia of the World's Minorities (EWM) (2004), Carl Skutsch (Project Editor) (New York and London: Routledge).
  • ‘Tajikistan', in Encyclopaedia of the World's Minorities (EWM) (2004), Carl Skutsch (Project Editor) (New York and London: Routledge).
  • ‘Turkmenistan', Encyclopaedia of the World's Minorities (EWM) (2004), Carl Skutsch (Project Editor) (New York and London: Routledge).
  • ‘United Nations Working Group on Minorities', in Encyclopaedia of World's Minorities (EWM), (2004) Carl Skutish (Project Editor), (New York and London: Routledge).
  • ‘United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations', in Encyclopaedia of World's Minorities (EWM), (2004) Carl Skutish (Project Editor), (New York and London: Routledge).
  • ‘United Nations Draft Declaration on Indigenous Peoples', in Encyclopaedia of World's Minorities (EWM), (2004) Carl Skutish (Project Editor), (New York and London: Routledge)
  • ‘Armenia', Worldmark Encyclopaedia of National Economies (WENE), Pendergast, Sara and Tom Pendergast (eds.), 4 vols. (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2002).
  • ‘Ukraine', Worldmark Encyclopaedia of National Economies (WENE), Pendergast, Sara and Tom Pendergast (eds.), 4 vols., (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2002).
  • ‘ASEAN Free Trade Area', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 43.
  • ‘Authoritarian State', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 56-57.
  • ‘Bonapartism', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 88-89.
  • ‘Determinism, methodological', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 328-330.
  • ‘Export of Capital', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 508.
  • ‘First World', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 548.
  • ‘Group 77', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 648-649;
  • ‘International Atomic Energy Agency' (IAEA), in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 796.
  • ‘International Fund for Agricultural Development', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 803.
  • ‘Interstate System', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 841-842.
  • ‘Islamic Development Bank', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 852.
  • ‘Nationalisation', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 1085.
  • ‘Social Organisation of Production', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 1421.
  • ‘Transition Theorists', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 1597.
  • ‘United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 1634-1635.
  • ‘World Economy', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 1706-1707.
  • ‘World Order', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy (REIPE), R.J.B. Jones (ed.), vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 1708-1710.