Hager Ali

Invited talk with Hager Ali on the Blog-Series "Autocracies with Adjectives", the most recent Nations in Transit-Report, and Hybrid Regimes.

The war in Ukraine brought renewed interest in deployments of the German Federal Army, the Bundeswehr. With German defense and security at a turning point this paper will investigate Bundeswehr deployments vis-à-vis the German military’s mission laid out in its current White Paper, the so-called Weissbuch.

Warum mischen sich manche Armeen mehr in Innenpolitik ein als andere? Welche Faktoren spielen eine besondere Rolle bei Coupversuchen in MENA? Spielt die Staatenbildung heute noch eine Rolle? Zu diesen Fragen referiert Hager Ali vom Leibniz-Institut GIGA am 20. Mai bei der Gesellschaft für Sicherheitspolitik.

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.

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.

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.

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

With the latest round of peace talks underway in Astana, Kazakhstan between warring parties and foreign powers in Syria's conflict, can the negotiations actually bring about meaningful progress?

Invited talk with Hager Ali on the Blog-Series "Autocracies with Adjectives", the most recent Nations in Transit-Report, and Hybrid Regimes.

The war in Ukraine brought renewed interest in deployments of the German Federal Army, the Bundeswehr. With German defense and security at a turning point this paper will investigate Bundeswehr deployments vis-à-vis the German military’s mission laid out in its current White Paper, the so-called Weissbuch.

Warum mischen sich manche Armeen mehr in Innenpolitik ein als andere? Welche Faktoren spielen eine besondere Rolle bei Coupversuchen in MENA? Spielt die Staatenbildung heute noch eine Rolle? Zu diesen Fragen referiert Hager Ali vom Leibniz-Institut GIGA am 20. Mai bei der Gesellschaft für Sicherheitspolitik.