German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

Dr. Jessica Watkins

Associate

Kurzer Lebenslauf

Since 08/2021: Associat at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies
04/2021 - 08/2021: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies
09/2020 - 05/2021: Guest teacher in International Relations, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics
07/2017 - 03/2021: Postdoctoral Research Officer for the Conflict Research Programme, the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics
2012 - 2013: International Relations Graduate Teaching Assistant, War Studies Department King’s College London
2007 - 2009: Research Assistant, Middle East and North Africa specialising in Iraq, the Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
2002 - 2006: Middle East & North Africa analyst and Arabic linguist, UK government
Education: PhD War Studies (Civil policing in Jordan), War Studies Department, King’s College London, UK; M.A. International Relations, War Studies Department, King’s College London, UK; B.A. Hons (Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic with French), University of Cambridge, UK

Aktuelle Forschung

GCC-Narrative der Weltordnung

Länder und Regionen

Der Golf-Kooperationsrat (Saudi-Arabien, Katar, die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate)
Irak
Jordanien

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Globale Ordnungen und Außenpolitiken

Dr. Jessica Watkins

Associate

[email protected]

The Middle East Journal | 07.2024

Peacebuilding, Patronage-Building, and Post-Conflict NGO Corruption: Barriers to Democratization in Anbar, Iraq

Promoting civil society has been a standard component of post-conflict democratic peacebuilding. In post-2003 Iraq, however, the international coalition's introduction of the muhasasa system (apportionment) inhibited local nongovernmental organizations' ability to hold the government to account and made many NGOs into vehicles of state capture.

Dr. Jessica Watkins

Associate

Dr. Falah Mubarak Bardan

Associate

Third World Quarterly | 09.2022

Locating the Local Police in Iraq’s Security Arena: Community Policing, the ‘Three Ps’ and Trust in Ninawa Province

This paper considers policing in two diverse districts in Ninawa province: a rundown Sunni tribal neighbourhood in Mosul, and a predominantly Christian town in a multi-ethnic district. Our findings suggest that while police conduct does impact how stakeholders view them, public trust in the police is at least as much a function of who the police are as of what they actually do, underscoring that police professionalism cannot substitute for political legitimacy more broadly.

Dr. Jessica Watkins

Abdulkareem al-Jerba

Mahdi al-Delaimi

Peacebuilding | 2022

Post-ISIL Reconciliation in Iraq and the Local Anatomy of National Grievances: The Case of Yathrib

The paper uses qualitative interview findings to demonstrate on the one hand that seemingly ‘local’ tribal solutions are built into national-level ‘peace strategies’, while on the other, state capture and power politics is infused into the management of apparently parochial disputes.