Simulating, marketing, and playing war: US–Jordanian military collaboration and the politics of commercial security

Schuetze, Benjamin

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“…Participant (p4) indicated that the United States is aware of any mistake with Jordan that will reflect the cause of its reality, its political presence and America's fears after the emergence of the new Russian role from Jordan's tendency to cooperate with Russia instead of the United States. This result is consistent with studies of Saleh (2020); Sheikha (2020); Cash (2018); Schuetze (2017); Alsarhan(2017); Sharp (2015) in terms of the result and differs in terms of the approach used in data collection.…”

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“…"According to his study entitled (Simulating, marketing, and playing war: US-Jordanian military collaboration and the politics of commercial security), Schuetze reported the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Centre (KASOTC) was financed and established by the US Department of Defence. The study adopted a qualitative approach through important empirical security studies based on interviews and observations made during a visit to KASOTC in early 2013 (Schuetze, 2017).Furthermore, in The Future of U.S.-Jordanian Counterterrorism Cooperation, Hardin Lang, William Wechsler, and Alia Awadallah explored the political and economic relations between Jordan and the United States. These relations were influenced by the repercussions of the events of September 11, 2001(Lang, Wechsler, & Awadallah, 2017.…”

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“…According to his study entitled (Simulating, marketing, and playing war: US-Jordanian military collaboration and the politics of commercial security), Schuetze reported the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Centre (KASOTC) was financed and established by the US Department of Defence. The study adopted a qualitative approach through important empirical security studies based on interviews and observations made during a visit to KASOTC in early 2013 (Schuetze, 2017).…”

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United States Foreign Policy Towards Jordan From the Political and Security Dimensions From 1990 to 2017

Alkhawaldeh¹,

Hayajneh²

2023

Austral

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Foreign policy is an integral part of international relations. This study examines the United States (US) foreign policy towards Jordan from 1990 to 2017 since the period witnessed important regional and international political events that significantly impacted the US foreign policy. These events have the greatest impact on the development of relations between the two countries in terms of political and security aspects. The study looks at four political events and their impacts on Jordanian-American relations from the political and security aspects. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to examine the US foreign policy towards Jordan from the political and security aspects. This study adopted the qualitative approach. The primary data were collected from interviews while the secondary data were obtained from books, journals, theses, newspapers, seminar papers, articles and other documents. In this study, 16 respondents from political, economic and security experts in Jordan and the US were selected for semi-structured interviews. The study employed Thematic Analysis in analysing the data obtained. This study adopted the neo-realism theory as a theoretical framework. This study found that the US foreign policy recognizes Jordan as a close ally and considers its stability very important. The US foreign policy was seen slightly negative towards Jordan during the Iraqi War on Kuwait in 1990. However, the Wadi Araba peace treaty between Jordan and Israel in 1994 had promoted positive US foreign policy towards Jordan. This policy was slightly weakened in 2017 due to the transfer of the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Certain political events play an important role in the US foreign policy regarding security aid towards Jordan. The study found that the US foreign policy provides security support to Jordan to protect Israel, spread American ideology and fight against its enemy. This research also found that Jordan has a suitable location to defend Israel because the country is surrounded by important Arab countries. The US links its aids to Jordan due to political events. Accordingly, the study recommends the necessity for the Jordanian state to increase its influential economic alliances at the international level. In addition, Jordanian policy must be redrawn in line with international realities to pressure the US to make Jordan play an active role in the region and international arena. Jordan should better use its geographical location to achieve international cooperation and enhance Arab security as a barrier against Israel.

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Alkhawaldeh¹,

Hayajneh²

2023

Austral

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“…The introduction of (private and public sector) managers of security has led us to explore the commercial processes at the heart of the making of security. It has also led scholars to unfamiliar sites, ranging from the fake journalists trading news about pirates in the Gulf of Aden, to trade fairs in London or the KASOTC military training facility that doubles as a touristic theme park in the Jordan desert (Schuetze, 2017). Similarly, the encounter with the marvellous minions has opened up a wide world of infrastructural politics to exploration, sensitizing security studies scholars to the wondrous worlds of codes, algorithms, protocols and other security devices.…”

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Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years

Salter¹,

Cohn²,

Neal³

et al. 2019

Security Dialogue

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What is changing? This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it. That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and concentrations of wealth; it has gotten us to the brink of climate catastrophe, ecosystem collapse, and a vast, literally unimaginable intensification and expansion of human immiseration and suffering. So what is changing in security (if not in security studies, critical or otherwise) is everything-from the entire context of stable planetary ecosystems that gave rise to the way our world is politically, economically and socially structured, to our understandings of those structures, and to our models and theories of what constitutes security within them, be it state security or human security. We can no longer claim to be thinking about security unless we address the model that conceives the purpose of economic activity as ever-increasing 'efficiencies' of extraction, exploitation and consumption of nature's resources, and of human labour, both paid and unpaid, for the purpose of profit-rather than, for example, conceiving the purpose of economic activity as meeting human needs for a decent and dignified life, and ensuring the sustainability of the resources and ecosystems on which life depends. Consider just these few snapshots of what that model has produced: How is it possible to talk about 'security' while ignoring them/without centring them? 862912S DI0010.1177/0967010619862912Security DialogueSalter (ed.) et al. Horizon scan-commentaries article-Commentary2019 Salter (ed.) et al. Horizon scan-commentaries References NASA Science (n.d.

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“…King Abdullah II has, since his succession to the throne in 1999, skilfully positioned his country as a supposed showcase partner in external interventions both elsewhere and at home. While the Jordanian military, for example, is a major contributor to United Nations (UN) peacekeeping forces and a close regional ally of the USA in military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria (for a discussion of contemporary US-Jordanian military collaboration, see Schuetze, 2017), external interventions in Jordanian politics range from humanitarian aid (primarily by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)), via externally supported structural adjustment and economic liberalisation (see Hanieh, 2013;Moore, 2005;Moore and Schrank, 2003), to an impressive portfolio of international democracy promotion interventions. With $47 million out of the total annual $1 billion in US assistance assigned to programmes related to democracy, human rights and governance, the Jordan democracy promotion portfolio of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) constitutes both in absolute terms and in relation to population figures one of the largest worldwide (US Government, 2016).…”

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Marketing parliament: The constitutive effects of external attempts at parliamentary strengthening in Jordan

Schuetze¹

2018

Cooperation and Conflict

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The Jordanian parliament is widely recognised as a patronage provider and means for authoritarian upgrading. Despite, or precisely because of this, it has over the past years become a linchpin of US and European attempts at parliamentary strengthening. The parliament's highly marginalised position notwithstanding, this article suggests that such efforts provide us with an insightful opportunity to better understand the reconfiguration of authoritarian power via external intervention in the name of democracy. Discussing the contradictory effects of parliamentary strengthening programmes in Jordan, the article tries to shift the discussion of democracy promotion away from a concern with policy, conceptual debates and intentions to one with democracy promotion's constitutive effects. As such, the article investigates the framing of Jordanian politics within a market rationale as central mechanism for the de-politicisation of uneven power relations. Further, it explores the ways in which democracy promotion serves to seemingly reconfirm interveners' desired self-understandings via the maintenance of assumptions of cultural 'difference'. Ultimately, it is suggested that decentring the study of democracy promotion by paying more attention to its constitutive effects provides us with a better understanding of why and how increasing democracy promotion portfolios have, in Jordan, had the effect of strengthening authoritarianism.

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Simulating, marketing, and playing war: US–Jordanian military collaboration and the politics of commercial security

Cited by 17 publications

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United States Foreign Policy Towards Jordan From the Political and Security Dimensions From 1990 to 2017

United States Foreign Policy Towards Jordan From the Political and Security Dimensions From 1990 to 2017

Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years

Marketing parliament: The constitutive effects of external attempts at parliamentary strengthening in Jordan

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