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dr.  M.P.  (Mehdi)  Amineh
Afdeling Sociologie en Antropologie


OZ Achterburgwal 185
1012 DK Amsterdam

Telephone
0205254567

Email
no.M.P.Amineh@uva.nl.no

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M. Parvizi Amineh studied political sciences and philosophy at the at the University of Amsterdam and holds a PhD in Political Sciences at the university. Since 2002 he is member of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR). He is a Adjunct professor of International Relations at the Webster University (www.webster.nl), and senior lecturer at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam. He is also senior research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl) and programme director of the research programme-Energy Programme Asia (www.iias.nl/epa) at the same institute and Associated Fellow in post-Soviet Eurasia, the Middle East and the Caspian Region at the Clingendael International Energy Programme (www.clingendael.nl), The Hague,The Netherlands. His current fields of interests are the political economy energy; comparative political economy of successful and failed industrialization in East Asia, the Middle East and Central Eurasia and globalization and (politicized-) Islam. Amineh is Editor-in-Chief of the book-series: International Comparative Socail Sciences (ICSS)-Brill Academic Publishing and a member of the editorial Board of the journals: Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (PGDT) and Comparative Sociology (CoSo).

For detailed information see:

http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/m.p.amineh/

http://www.iias.nl/epa/

http://www.brill.nl/icss
Research Interests
His main fields of study are International Relations, International Political Economy and Social History. His main research topics are politics and society in the Middle East and Central Eurasia in a historical perspective; the rise of political Islam as response to globalisation in a historical perspective; Global energy security and geopolitics; EU-energy security and its impediments and rethinking International Relations theories.
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MAIN ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

•Domestic and Geopolitical Challenges to Energy Security for China and the European Union, (With Yang Guang), (forthcoming).

• State, Society and International Relations in Asia, Amsterdam , Amsterdam University Press, (forthcoming).

 • The Greater Middle East in Global Politics: Social Science Perspective on the Changing Geography of the World Politics (Editor 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) (Editor and Contributors) ( Leiden , Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, 2004).

 • Globalisation, Geopolitics andEnergy 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).

 • Kapitalistische expansie, periferiesering en passieve revolutie Iran : (1500-1980), Maastricht , (Maastricht: Shaker Publishing: 1998).

• Globalisation and Islam: the Rise and Decline of Islam as Political Ideology: 1850-2000s, (forthcoming).

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Teaching
Amineh also is involved in various teaching activities at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences (ISHSS), Amsterdam School of International Relations (ASIR) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Webster University, Leiden.
SECECTEDCHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND ARTICLES
• `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, 2008).

• ` 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 GlobalDevelopment 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, forvol. 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).  

• ‘ China : Energie, Macht en Geopolitiek’, in AGORA, Tijdschrift voor Sociaal-Ruimtelijke Vraagstukken, Uterct, Jaargang 23, nummer 5, 2007.

• `The Great Game’ Continued: Central Eurasia and the Caspian Region Fossil Fuel’, with Xuetang Guo, Newsletter 45, (Autumn 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        

• Iran in Global Politics: oil, state, and society, Briefing paper ( The Hague : Clingendael International Energy Program, 2006, forthcoming).  

• ` 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 , Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte: 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 regionalemogendheden’, 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 EUinCEA: 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 inCentral 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.

 

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