Maria-Louise Clausen
Primary research areas
Maria-Louise Clausen’s primary areas of research are conflict, security, and peace in the Middle East, especially Yemen and Iraq. She is especially interested in state-building, relations between state and non-state actors as well as consequences of competing perceptions of legitimate political order.
Current research
Maria-Louise Clausen’s current research focuses on how international actors influence relations between state and non-state actors in conflict-affected states, including the implications of external involvement in intrastate conflict and conflict resolution. Clausen is also interested in the political and moral implications of remote warfare, as well as relations between different types or temporally distinct (Western) interventions.
Clausen is furthermore interested in the development and political implications of strategic narratives on conflict, peace and statebuilding by both state and non-state actors, including how these are developed and utilized in multilateral organizations such as the UN and NATO, as well as regional organizations such as the LAS.
More recently, Clausen is beginning to explore how the introduction of renewable energy impact state-society relations.
Projects
Clausen is the Principal Investigator (PI) of a research project titled Violent Peacemakers (2022-2025). The project contributes to existing research by exploring theoretical and empirical implications of considering connections between external military intervention and state-building interventions aimed at (re)building the security sector. Empirically, the project focuses on Iraq and Yemen. The project is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (Social sciences)
Maria-Louise Clausen is also part of the research project, ”Renewable energy, violent conflict, and gender equality” (2023-2027), which aims at advancing our understanding of the relationship between the introduction of renewable energy and conflict. Empirically, the project focuses on Yemen, and it is funded by Formas (A Swedish Research Council for sustainable development)
Maria-Louise Clausen is also a non-resident fellow in the Sectarianism, Proxies & De-sectarianisation project (SEPAD) where she contributes with expert knowledge on Yemen and Iraq.
Research and activites
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Book Chapter2024Maria-Louise Clausen
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Photo/illustration by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid via Flickr.com copyright licenseJournal Article2023Towards a new paradigm of non-knowledge in digital humanitarianismAdam Moe Fejerskov, Maria-Louise Clausen & Sarah Seddig
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Book Chapter2022Yemen as a theatre for the rivalry between Iran and Saudi ArabiaMaria-Louise Clausen
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DIIS Working Paper2022Maria-Louise Clausen & Peter Albrecht
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Book Chapter2022The Huthis as a non-state actor with a foreign policyMaria-Louise Clausen
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Journal Article2022The case of al-Qaeda in the Arabian PeninsulaMaria-Louise Clausen
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DIIS Working Paper2022Analytically vacuous, politically usefulMaria-Louise Clausen & Peter Albrecht
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Review2022international intervention and unending wars in the SudansMaria-Louise Clausen
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Web Article2021Maria-Louise Clausen & Peter Albrecht
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Journal Article2021from statebuilding to stabilizationMaria-Louise Clausen & Peter Albrecht
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseWeb Article2021insights from a recent surveyMaria-Louise Clausen
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Chapter2021Maria-Louise Clausen
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Book Chapter2020the case of YemenMaria-Louise Clausen
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Journal Article2020Islamic State’s use of Quranic verses and how it relates to state-buildingMaria-Louise Clausen
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Book Chapter2020Reflections on Negotiating IdentityMaria-Louise Clausen
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseForskningsartikel2020Caught between Domestic Repression and External Co-optationMaria-Louise Clausen
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2020Maria-Louise Clausen
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Literature Review2020a history of the Houthi ConflictMaria-Louise Clausen
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Journal Article2019a reply to DuracMaria-Louise Clausen
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Book Chapter2019Maria-Louise Clausen
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Book Chapter2019Interactions between the domestic and the systemic levelMaria-Louise Clausen
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2019Yemen as a failed stateMaria-Louise Clausen
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DIIS Report2019Iraq following the military defeat of Islamic StateMaria-Louise Clausen
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Working papers etc.2018Helle Malmvig, Virginie Collombier, Maria-Louise Clausen, Hiba Hassan & Jan Pet Khorto
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Photo/illustration by Lone RavnkildeDIIS Policy Brief2024Maria-Louise Clausen
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Photo/illustration by Andy Dean / adobe.stock.comDIIS Policy Brief2024Maria-Louise Clausen
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DIIS Policy Brief2022The NATO mission in Iraq is facing a number of challengesMaria-Louise Clausen & Helle Malmvig
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DIIS Policy Brief2022Maria-Louise Clausen, Ekatherina Zhukova & Vasna Ramasar
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DIIS Policy Brief2022The tenacity of a policy conceptPeter Albrecht & Maria-Louise Clausen
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DIIS Policy Brief2021Avoiding harm, delivering impactAdam Moe Fejerskov, Maria-Louise Clausen & Sarah Seddig
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DIIS Policy Brief2021Creating a more effective security sector in Iraq requires increased inclusivenessMaria-Louise Clausen & Ekatherina Zhukova
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Brief2021Aid Transparency versus Violation of PrivacyMaria-Louise Clausen
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DIIS Policy Brief2021Maria-Louise Clausen
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DIIS Policy Brief2020Iranian foreign policy utilizes partnersMaria-Louise Clausen
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseDIIS Policy Brief2019A tool of coercion or public securityMaria-Louise Clausen
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DIIS policy brief2019Maria-Louise Clausen