Martin Keulertz

This doctoral research analyses the recent foreign direct investments in African land and water. By analysing the (virtual) water/food/trade nexus, pragmatic alternatives of investing countries to demand-side management will be studied. The opportunities and risks of agricultural land acquisition will be critically analysed in order to analyse the economic, political and social outcomes of such investments in the target countries with its effect on the global political economy. Conceptually, the American school of pragmatism will interconnected with the Frankfurt School of social theory, namely Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional-Man, to account for drivers and factors in water management on the national and international scale.

Dr Daanish Mustafa and Prof Tony Allan

Cusanuswerk (German government scholarship)

Keulertz, M. 2009. Jordanien im Wasserstress – eine politisierte Krise. Mediterranes 02/09 Euro–Mediterranean Association for Cooperation and Development e.V. (EMA).
 
Keulertz, M. 2009. The Political Economy of Water in Jordan.
Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant 02/09.
 

London Water Research Unit, DAVO, BRISMES, Fortuna Duesseldorf

Martin was born in Duesseldorf, Germany and obtained a BA (Hons) from the University of Wales, Bangor in 2007 and a Masters in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2008. He has travelled the Middle East extensively in the last few years. His research for his Masters dissertation on water in the Middle East was funded by the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL). Moreover, he worked in the financial sector and as a freelance consultant on energy public relations.