Anna Sunik

GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-722
Fax: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-511

Email:

Biographical data:

• Studies: Political Science, Islamic Sciences and Social Anthropology at the University of Heidelberg and International Relations at the Sciences Po in Paris
• Biographical data:

Since February 2012:

Research Fellow at GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies

• Member of the GIGA Research Programme 1

Memberships:

• Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO)
• Middle East Studies Association (MESA)

Current research:

• Monarchies in the Middle East
• International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis
• Comparative Authoritarianism Studies
  

Third-party funded projects:

• 2012-2014 Fritz Thyssen Foundation: Middle East Monarchies: A Configurational Comparison of Breakdown and Survival since 1945 (together with Thomas Richter and André Bank)

Publications:

• 2013 (with André Bank and Thomas Richter): Long-Term Monarchical Survival in the Middle East: A Configurational Comparison, 1945–2012, GIGA Working Paper No 215, February 2013, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)

Lectures:

• "Außenpolitik nahöstlicher Monarchien - 'Monarchischer Frieden'?", 19. Jahreskongress der Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, 6 October 2012 (Programme)

• "Explaining Monarchical Survival since 1945: Results from a Configurational-Comparative Analysis of Middle Eastern Cases" (with Thomas Richter and André Bank), Workshop Rethinking the Monarchy-Republic Gap in the Middle East, Phillips Universität Marburg/Universität Hildesheim, Marburg, 20 September 2012

Media articles:

• King Abdullah Can Catch His Breath (arab)
  Article with André Bank (Qantara, 30 January 2013)

• No Arab Spring for Jordan (Audio-Datei)
  Interview (Burning Point, The Voice of Russia, 25 January 2013)

• 2013 Jordan Post-Election Report: And the winner is…the king
  Mit André Bank (Election Reports, The Monkey Cage, 25 January 2013)

• Die jordanischen Wahlen zwischen Reformen und Volksprotest (arabisch)
  Interview (Am Puls der Ereignisse, Deutsche Welle TV, 23 January 2013)