- 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
Alaa Tartir
PRIO Global Fellow
Interests and experience
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.
Latest publications
All of Alaa Tartir publications
Political Economy of Foreign Aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: A Conceptual Framing
Book chapter in Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives
Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives
Edited volume
اتفاقات أبراهام وتشويه معنى السلام
Popular article in Al-Araby Al-Jadeed Newspaper
Political Economy Of Development In Palestine: A Critical Perspective
Popular article in Progress in Political Economy
Nizar Banat killing: The world must stop enabling PA crimes
Popular article in Middle East Eye
الرعاية الأوروبية للسلطوية والاستعمار في فلسطين
Popular article in Al-Araby Al-Jadeed Newspaper
صحوة شعبية فلسطينية وكبوة أممية
Popular article in Al-Araby Al-Jadeed Newspaper
Palestine-Israel: A Reality Check
Popular article in Institut Montaigne
A new approach to elections in Palestine
Popular article in Al-Jazzera
Jerusalem protests: Palestine's new generation rises up
Popular article in Middle East Eye
Latest news
Book Offers Fresh View into Palestinian Political Economy
Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives, edited by PRIO Global Fellow Alaa Tartir, Tariq Dana, and Timothy Seidel, was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Sheikh Jarrah to Gaza
In a series of brief blog posts, researchers of the PRIO Middle East Centre offer their reflections on the unfolding Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
COVID-19 in the Middle East: Different Regimes, Different Responses
In May, a new PRIO Middle East Centre project started.
PRIO Welcomes New Global Fellows
PRIO welcomes seven new researchers to the PRIO Global Fellows Programme.