Jeannie Sowers

Research Interests
- Conflict and human security
- Egypt
- Environmental Planning/Policy
- Environmental policy
- Environmental politics and social change
- Middle East
- Social movements
Courses Taught
- IA 701: Seminar
- POLT 444: Politics &Policy Warming World
- POLT 559: Comp Politics of Middle East
- POLT 740: States and Societies Mid East
- POLT 751: Comp Environmental Politics
- POLT 900: Pro-Seminar
Selected Publications
Sowers, J. (2018). Environmental Activism in the Middle East and North Africa. In H. Voerhoeven (Ed.), Environmental Politics in the Middle East. Oxford University Press.
Sowers, J., & Rutherford, B. (2018). Modern Egypt What Everyone Needs to Know. What Everyone Needs to Know, Oxford University Press.
Sowers, J. (2018). The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Arid Regions: The Politics of Problemsheds. In E. Weinthal, & K. Conca (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy (pp. 167-196). Oxford University Press.
Sowers, J. (2017). The High Stakes of Climate Adaptation in the Middle East. Current History, 348-354.
Sowers, J. L., Weinthal, E., & Zawahri, N. (2017). Targeting environmental infrastructures, international law, and civilians in the new Middle Eastern wars. Security Dialogue, 48(5), 410-430. doi:10.1177/0967010617716615
Sowers, J., & Rutherford, B. (2017). Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt. In M. Haas, & D. Lesch (Eds.), The Arab Spring: The Hope and Reality of the Uprisings (2nd edition ed., pp. 40-71). Westview/Routledge Press.
Weinthal, E., Zawahri, N., & Sowers, J. (2015). Securitizing Water, Climate, and Migration in Israel, Jordan, and Syria. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 15(3), 293-307. doi:10.1007/s10784-015-9279-4
Sowers, J. (2015). Activism and Political Economy in the New–Old Egypt. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 47(01), 140-143. doi:10.1017/S0020743814001500
Zawahri, N., Sowers, J., & Weinthal, E. (2011). The Politics of Assessment: Water and Sanitation MDGs in the Middle East. Development and Change, 42(5), 1153-1178. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01730.x
Sowers, J., Vengosh, A., & Weinthal, E. (2011). Climate change, water resources, and the politics of adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa. Climatic Change, 104(3-4), 599-627. doi:10.1007/s10584-010-9835-4
Most Cited Publications