Alaa Tartir

Research Interests

• Dynamics of Peace and Security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
• Security Sector Governance and Reform in the Arab World
• Authoritarianism, Contentious Politics, and State-Building/Failure in the Middle East
• Political Economy of Aid, Security, Conflict, and Development in the MENA region
• Conflicts, Arms, and Armed Groups in the MENA and Sahel-Sahara regions
• International Relations and Middle East Politics and Societies
• Palestinian Politics, Economy, Society, and Governance
• Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Background

​Dr Alaa Tartir is a Senior Researcher and coordinator of the Security Assessment in North Africa (SANA) project at the Small Arms Survey in Geneva, as well as being a Research Associate at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), also in Geneva. Additionally, Tartir is a Policy and Program Advisor to Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, and a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). Amongst other positions, Tartir was a Fellow at The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at Utrecht University (NL), a Visiting Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology (ANSO) at IHEID, and a Researcher in International Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he earned his PhD. Tartir is the author of Policing Palestine: Securitising Peace and Criminalising Resistance in the West Bank (Pluto Press, 2021), the editor of Outsourcing Repression: Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination (AMEC, 2019), and the co-editor of Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Tartir's publications can be accessed at www.alaatartir.com.

Research Groups

• Security

PRIO Departments

• Dimensions of Security (2012-2022)

PRIO Projects

• Reacting to COVID-19 Across the MENA Region

Events

• Thu, 24 Mar 2022 08:30-09:30 – Political Economy of Palestine: Critical Perspectives - MidEast Breakfast with Alaa Tartir

Publications

​Tartir, Alaa (2020) Palestine, in de Graaff, Bob, ed, Intelligence Communities and Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: A Comprehensive Reference. Lynne Rienner Publishers (257-278).

Tartir, Alaa & Benoit Challand (2019) Palestine, in Lust, Ellen, ed, The Middle East, 15^th Edition, CQ Press and Sage Publication.

Tartir, Alaa & Timothy Seidel (eds) (2019) Palestine and Rule of Power - Local Dissent vs. International Governance, Palgrave Macmillan.

Tartir, Alaa (ed) (2019) Outsourcing Repression: Israeli-: Palestinian Security Coordination, Afro-Middle East Centre, South Africa.

Tartir, Alaa (2018) The Limits of Securitized Peace: The EU's Sponsorship of Palestinian Authoritarianism, Middle East Critique, 27:4, 365-381, DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2018.1516337

Tartir, Alaa & Filip Ejdus (2018) Effective? Locally owned? Beyond the technocratic perspective on the European Union Police Mission for the Palestinian Territories, Contemporary Security Policy, 39:1, 142-165, DOI: 10.1080/13523260.2017.1407486

Tartir, Alaa (2017) Criminalizing Resistance: The Cases of Balata and Jenin Refugee Camps, Journal of Palestine Studies, 46 (2): 7–22., DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/jps.2017.46.2.7

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