I am a researcher and author based in Oxford and honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter. My work sits at the intersection of Middle East politics, international relations, postcolonial and settler colonial studies, and the politics of recognition. I hold a PhD in Middle East Politics from the University of Exeter, and advanced degrees in International Relations, Political Science, and Spatial Planning and Architecture from the Universities of Bristol, Uppsala, KTH Stockholm, an-Najah University, Palestine.
My second book, Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States: Normalizing Dispossession and Elimination in Palestine(Bloomsbury/I.B. Tauris, 2025), develops an original theoretical argument about how international recognition politics functions as a mechanism of colonial reproduction rather than emancipation. My first book, The Palestinian Political Discourse: Between Exile and Occupation (Routledge, 2016), offered a critical account of Palestinian political agency and ideological transformation since 1948.
My peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Third World Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, European Security, Territory, Politics, Governance, Middle East Critique, Critical Sociology, Settler Colonial Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and Mediterranean Politics, among others. My current research examines colonial politics of hunger, conditional recognition as a technology of colonial power and the geopolitical realignment of the MENA since October 2023.
Alongside my scholarly work, I contribute regularly to public debate through media commentary and through invited lectures, podcasts, public talks, and painting.
Publications
Books
Badarin, E. (2025). Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States: Normalizing Dispossession and Elimination in Palestine (London: I.B. Tauris)
Badarin, E. (2016). Palestinian Political Discourse: between Exile and Occupation. London: Routledge. ISBN-10: 1138101680. (Paperback December 2019)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Badarin, E. (2025). “The Hollow Promise of Recognition in the Shadow of the Genocide in Gaza”. Insight Turkey, (27)3: 13–22. DOI: 10.25253/99.2025273.1
Badarin, E. (2025). “Decolonising faith: Palestinian Liberation Theology in the context of settler-colonialism”. Third World Quarterly, 46(7): 721–736. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2025.2511863
Badarin, E. (2024). “Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide”. Middle East Critique, 4(33): 635-654. . DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2024.2408983
Badarin, E. (2023). “Politics, Geography and Recognition in the Emerging Multipolar World Order”, Territory, Politics, Governance. DOI:10.1080/21622671.2023.2214172
Badarin E. (2023) “Palestine and EU”. In Gürbey, G., Hofmann, S. and Seyder, F. (eds.) Between Diplomacy and Non-Diplomacy: Foreign relations of Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: 157–178. (Blind reviewed)
Badarin, E. (2022) “Afghanistan Beyond Geopolitical Lens”. Forum for International Cultural Relations at the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Relations), Stuttgart, Germany. Available in German: Jenseits der geopolitischen Linse (Solicited essay).
Badarin, E. and Schumacher, T. (2022) “The Eastern Mediterranean Energy Bonanza: A Piece in the Regional and Global Geopolitical Puzzle, and the Role of the European Union.” Comparative Southeast European Studies70(3): 414–438.
Badarin, E. and Wildeman, J. (2022) “Aid, Security and Fortress Europe: EU Development Aid in the Middle East and North Africa”. In: Bouris, D., Huber, D. and Pace, M. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on EU-Middle East Relations. London: Routledge: 401–410. (Blind reviewed) DOI: 10.4324/9780429317873-42
Badarin, E. 2021. “Politics of Recognition, Elimination and Settler-Colonialism”. Critical Sociology, (49)2: 233-252.DOI: 10.1177/08969205211058452
Badarin, E. 2021. “Localising Resilience: Discursive Projections, Entrapments and Domination”. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 1–16. DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2021.1981234
Badarin, E. 2021. “Recognition of States and Colonialism in the Twenty-first Century: Western Sahara and Palestine in Sweden’s Recognition Practice”. Third World Quarterly. 42(6): 1276–1294. DOI:10.1080/01436597.2021.1884064
Badarin, E. 2020. “Jordan’s Economic, Security and Political Challenges under Covid-19”. Mediterranean Politics.DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2020.1850624
Badarin, E. 2020. “Politics and Economy of Resilience: EU Resilience-building in Palestine and Jordan and its Disciplinary Governance”. European Security. 30(1): 65–84. DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2020.1828357
Badarin, E. 2020. “States Recognition in Foreign Policy: The Case of Sweden’s Recognition of Palestine”. Foreign Policy Analysis, 16(1): 78–97. https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/ory019
Badarin, E. and Schumacher, T. (2020) “The EU, Resilience and the Southern Neighbourhood After the Arab Uprisings”. In: Cusumano, E. and Hofmaier, S. (eds) Projecting Resilience Across the Mediterranean. Palgrave Macmillan: 63-86. (Blind reviewed)
Badarin, E. 2017. “Palestine: A Protracted Peacebuilding Process”. Conflict and Society: Advances in Research 3: 227–245.
Badarin, E. (2017) “From Social to Political Sectarianism in the Middle East World”. In: The Sectarian Question the Production of Minorities in the Arab World. Doha: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies: Chapter 3 (Arabic). (Blind reviewed)
Badarin, E. (2017) “The British Mandate of Palestine: from Colonisation to Settler-Colonialism”. In: Britain’s Legacy in Palestine. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (Blind reviewed)
Badarin E. 2015. “Settler-colonialist Management of Entrances to the Native Urban Space in Palestine”. Settler Colonial Studies 5(3): 226–235.
Badarin E. 2015. “Revolutionary Instability: An Opportunity to Construct a Pluralist Political Horizon”. Umran: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 11(3): 119–137. (Arabic).
Commentary
Badarin, E. 2025. Recognition amid genocide seeks to undermine Palestinian anti-colonial resistance. Middle East Eye, 12 October.
Badarin, E. 2024. The West is buying Israel extra time to accomplish its genocide. Middle East Eye, 29 May.
Badarin, E. 2024. Decades of colonialism led to Israel’s genocidal moment. Middle East Eye, 12 March.
Badarin, E. 2023. Facts bear no weight as EU leaders align with Israel’s genocidal war. Middle East Eye, 30 December.
Badarin, E. 2023. Why Gaza genocide is seen as an existential threat to Jordan. Middle East Eye, 8 December.
Badarin, E, 2023. This is not about Hamas. It’s a 75-year colonial war. Middle East Eye, 17 November.
Badarin, E. 2023. Israel-Palestine war: Gaza has sparked a meltdown in the West’s colonial mindset. Middle East Eye, 16 October.
Badarin, E. 2023. ‘Making the desert bloom’: Why Europe clings to the colonial mindset. Middle East Eye, 5 may.
Badarin, E. 2022. World Cup 2022: How Arab fans are speaking truth to Israel on Palestine. Middle East Eye, 2 December.
Badarin E. 2022. ICC: Justice for Ukraine, not Palestine. Middle East Eye, 11 April. Available in French, 18 April: CPI : la justice vaut pour l’Ukraine, mais pas pour la Palestine.
Badarin, E. 2020. Why Israel’s annexation plan is a direct threat to Jordan. Middle East Eye, 6 July.
Badarin, E. 2020. Coronavirus: Global academia gets a taste of the Palestinian lockdown. Middle East Eye, 16 April.
Badarin, E. 2019. Nothing can destroy the dream of Palestinian liberation. Middle East Eye, 17 July.
Badarin, E. and Wildeman, J. 2019. The ‘Deal of the Century’ condemns Palestinians to endless Apartheid. TRT World, 13 May.
Badarin, E. and Wildeman, J. 2019. Rethinking the nature of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Middle East Eye, 11 April.
Badarin, E. 2019. EU foreign policy normalises totalitarianism in the Middle East. Middle East Eye, 19 March.
Badarin, E. and Wildeman, J. 2018. How the EU’s principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle East. Aljazeera, 26 October.