Amineh studied Political Science and International Relations at the University of Amsterdam , where he also obtained his PhD in 1998.

Research Interests

Amineh's researches are focused on comparative studies on politics of development, politicized religion, authoritarianism and democratization, geopolitics, energy security [both conventional energy and alternative energy resources] with focus on the Middle East, Central-, and East Asia and the European Union.

New Joint Research Project (2013-2017)

Granted Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for the joint Research Programme – Transnationalization of Chinese Oil Industry – between the Institute of West Asia and African Studies, Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and Energy Programme Asia, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) for a period of 3 years from January 2013 till January 2017.

This joint comparative research project will analyse China’s increasing involvement with governments, local institutions and local stakeholders in the energy sectors of a number of resource-rich countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America (notably Sudan, Ghana, Saudi-Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, and Brazil).

The core team of eleven principal researchers will present individual studies on various aspects and different countries. This interdisciplinary research project will be managed by Dr. M.P. Amineh (The Energy Programme Asia –EPA- IIAS/UvA) and Prof. Yang Guang (Institute of West Asian and African Studies - CASS) in cooperation with the following Chinese/CASS and Dutch research centres and universities: the Institute of Industrial Economy-CASS (IIE), the Institute of Latin American Studies-CASS (ILAS), the Institute of Russian, East European & Central Asian Studies-CASS (IREECAS), the Centre for Latin American Studies/CEDLA, Department of Politics and Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam, the Institute for Environmental Studies of VU Free University Amsterdam, the International Institute for Asian Studies, and Leiden University.

For details see respectively, AISSR and IIAS Websites:

1. Webpage Research Project
2. Webpage Energy Programma  

Research programme Domestic and Geopolitical Challenges to Energy Security for China and the EU

From 2007 till September 2011 he was director of the joint research programme titeld `Domestic and Geopolitical Challenges to Energy Security for China and the EU'. The joint research programme was a collaboration between Energy Programme Asia-International Institute for Asian Studies and Institute of Asian and African Studies-Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the Institute of Industrial Economy-CASS, the Institute of Latin American Studies-CASS and, the Institute of Russian , East European & Central Asian Studies-CASS.

The research project was financed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Social Sciences (KNAW), by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and IIAS.

Teaching

Amineh is involved in various teaching activities at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences (ISHSS) and Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), Amsterdam School of International Relations (ASIR) of the Universityof Amsterdam (UvA)and Webster University , Leiden.

Selected Books

• Secure Oil and Alternative Energy: The Geopolitics of Energy Paths of China and The European Union , (Editor and Contributor with Yang Guang), Leiden-Boston-London, Brill Academic Publishers, 2012 
• Globalization of Energy: China and the European Union, (Editor with Yang Guang), Leiden-Boston-London, Brill Academic Publishers, 2010      
• State, Society and International Relations in Asia, (Editor and Contributor), Amsterdam , Amsterdam University Press, 2010   
• 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 Perspectiveon the Changing Geography of the World Politics (Editor and Contributor), in the specialissue 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 ) (Editorsand 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 and Energy Security in Central Eurasia and the Caspian Region, ( The Hague : Clingendael International Energy Program, 2003). 
• Towards the Control of Oil Resources in the Caspian Region, (New York: St. Martin's Press Inc, 1999; reprint edition: 2000).

Selected chapters in books and articles

•   ` Authoritarian Persistence and Barriers to Democracy in the Muslim Middle East: Beyond Cultural Essentialism' in E. Ben-Rafael & E. Sternberg (eds.) World religions and Multilateralism- A Dialectic Relations, Leiden-Boston-London, Brill Academic Publishers, 2010, pp. 152-192.   
• `Tapping Global Energy Stock: Energy Security Challengesfor the European Union and China ', in Globalization ofEnergy: China and the European Union ,(Editor with Yang Guang), Leiden-Boston-London, Brill Academic Publishers,2010, pp. 3-29.    
• ` China and the Transformation of the Post-Cold War Geopolitics',in State, Society andInternational Relations in Asia, (Editor and Contributor M. Parvizi Amineh), Amsterdam , Amsterdam University Press, 2010, pp. 215-271.  
• `Iran Social Revolt and protests for change', IIAS-Newsletter 53 , Spring, 2010, pp. 6-7).    
• `Tapping Global Energy Stocks, Energy Security Asia/Europa', IIAS-Newsletter 52 , Summer, 2009, pp. 27.  
• `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 SciencesPerspectives 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, inMehdi Parvizi Amineh (ed.) The Greater Middle East in Global Politics: SocialSciencesPerspectives on the Changing Geography of the World Politics, specialissueofthe 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: TheCase ofPolitical Islam,inMehdi Parvizi Amineh (ed.) The Greater Middle East in Global Politics: Social Sciences Perspectives on the Changing Geography of the World Politics, special issueof 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 , (Autumn2007).
• `Global EnergySecurityand its Impediments -The case of the Caspian Region', in DAXIYANGGUO-Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Asiáticos, Instituto Superior de Ci ê ncias Sociais e Politicas, Universidade T é cnica de Lisboa, Instituto Do Oriente, No.9 September2006
• `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 EastAsia inSearch 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 GlobalPolitics: 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, MehdiParviziandHenk 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, jaargang59 - 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 totheEuropean Union with Prof. dr. Coby vandeLinde, 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 CentralEurasian 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 the20th Century - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts (Berlin etal: Springer, 2003).
• 'The Crisis in IR-Theory: Towards aCritical 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 inGlobalPolitics: 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 GlobalMarket', 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 AcademicPublishers, December 2003), chapter 2.
• 'The US and the EU in CEA: Relations withRegional 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.
• `RethinkingGeopolitics 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 CaspianEnergySupply 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' inErich 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 Koninginder 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, B19/99, (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 InternationalRelations andPublicLaw ,University of Amsterdam , (1998), pp. 45. Encyclopedias Articles
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