Hager Ali

Alongside the fighting in Sudan, there’s a battle of narratives while grassroots are pushing information out. The two generals are pushing their narratives on social media and jostling for command of the state-run airwaves. Interview with GIGA researcher Hager Ali.

Der Konflikt im Sudan berührt die Interessen vieler ausländischer Mächte. Es sind nicht nur die Nachbarstaaten, die versuchen, Einfluss zu nehmen. Auch die USA, China und Russland sind Akteure – mit unterschiedlichen Zielen.

In this article, Hager Ali (GIGA), Salah Ben Hammou, and Jonathan Powell (University of Central Florida) investigate how armies re-entrench their power after thwarting democratic transitions.

Tunisia’s politial system suffers from problems with governability and proportionality. Electoral reforms were undertaken in 2014, 2017, and 2019, but they were unable to diffuse either of these issues. This paper analyses who stands to gain from previous electoral reform, and why they failed to improve governability and proportionality.

Dissolving former ruling parties and purging institutions breaks with old regimes. But, Hager Ali, building strong political parties to govern after ousting long-time rulers takes far more time than new incumbents have, especially when they face severe crises.

The study of regime types, Hager Ali argues, is imbalanced. Theories and concepts of democracy have received attention for decades. But amid the resurgence of autocracies, scholars of authoritarianism still do not have the luxury of nuanced typologies to dissect the broad spectrum of non-democratic regimes.

When democracies’ most basic features lose their distinctive edge, differentiating regime types becomes a problem for scholars of democracy and autocracy alike. Hager Ali aims to redraw demarcations between regimes across the political spectrum. To do so, she argues that civilian control over militaries is just as fundamental as suffrage

How do the rival Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces stack up against each other, and what might happen next? In this guest article for Aljazeera English, Hager Ali analyses the political and military roles of the two parties within Sudan's political system, and how their tactical specializations play out in the fighting in Khartoum today. 

GIGA-Forscherin und Sudan-Expertin Hager Ali erklärt außenpolitische Interessen am Sudan, und die taktische Rolle der Russischen Wagner Gruppe im Machtkampf zwischen Al-Burhan und Daglao.

Alongside the fighting in Sudan, there’s a battle of narratives while grassroots are pushing information out. The two generals are pushing their narratives on social media and jostling for command of the state-run airwaves. Interview with GIGA researcher Hager Ali.

Der Konflikt im Sudan berührt die Interessen vieler ausländischer Mächte. Es sind nicht nur die Nachbarstaaten, die versuchen, Einfluss zu nehmen. Auch die USA, China und Russland sind Akteure – mit unterschiedlichen Zielen.