This project examines ways in which the recent war on Gaza (2023-) has rapidly destabilized the Middle East region and the global liberal order of power. Empirically, the project explores how several global and regional relations have intensified at the (settler) colonial frontier in Palestine, while also showing how Palestine, as a space of heightening securitization, militarization, environmental damage, and technological innovations, creates and intensifies frontiers elsewhere. By triangulating various datasets, it focuses on three frontiers of ‘global Palestine': innovation capital, destabilization of democracy, and ecologies of security and militarization. Methodologically, the notion of the frontiering is developed to grasp complex globally related phenomena through a multi-sited research methodology; conceptually, it is refined as a novel ‘milieu concept' capable for analysing globally scattered events as they unfold through various landscapes of frontier-making.

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2029