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Dr. Thomas Richter

Senior Research Fellow

Redaktion GIGA Focus Nahost

Kurzer Lebenslauf

  • Seit 10/2018: Redaktion GIGA Focus Nahost

  • 04/2018 - 05/2018: IDCAR Visiting Fellow am WZB Berlin in der Abteilung “Demokratie und Demokratisierung”

  • 09/2017: Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award, GSRE - Global State Revenues and Expenditures Datensatz

  • 2016 - 2018: Koordinator GIGA Forum

  • 2011 - 2015: Sprecher des Forschungsteams "Persistenz und Wandel nichtdemokratischer Regime" im Forschungsschwerpunkt 1

  • Seit 2013: Senior Research Fellow am GIGA Institut für Nahost-Studien

  • 2008 - 2013: Research Fellow am GIGA Institut für Nahost-Studien

  • 2007 - 2008: PhD-Fellow an der BIGSSS Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences der Universität Bremen (Promotionsstipendium der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung)

  • 2003 - 2007: PhD-Fellow an der GSSS Graduate School of Social Sciences der Universität Bremen (Promotionsstipendium der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung)

  • Studium: Politikwissenschaft, Volkswirtschaftslehre und Islamkunde an der Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen und der University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; Dissertation „Autoritäre Herrschaft, materielle Ressourcen und außenwirtschaftliche Reformen: Marokko, Tunesien, Ägypten und Jordanien zwischen 1970 und 2003; Promotion zum Dr. rer. pol. an der Universität Bremen (summa cum laude)

Aktuelle Forschung

  • Strukturanpassung und sektorale Transformation

  • Institutionelle und materielle Determinanten autoritärer Herrschaft

  • Exekutive Personalisierung

  • Schrumpfende zivilgesellschaftliche Räume

Länder und Regionen

  • Kleine Golfmonarchien

Forschungsschwerpunkt

  • Politische Verantwortlichkeit und Partizipation

  • Globale Ordnungen und Außenpolitiken

Projekte

01.11.2021 - 31.10.2024

COVID-19 and Executive Personalization in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and the MENA Region

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, political leaders reacted by containment measures that, next to combating the spread of the pandemic, also presented a window of opportunity to bolster executives’ personal grasp on power. Personalization of power has been particularly worrying in the Global South where constraints on the chief executives were often already weak prior to the pandemic. This project assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the personalization of executive power in 36 countries of the Global...
01.04.2020 - 31.03.2023

Merian Center for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM): Imagining Futures Dealing with Disparity

The "Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb" (MECAM), founded in 2020, is a platform for regional and international scientific exchange in Tunisia based on the central theme "Imagining Futures - Dealing with Disparity". The centre is located at the renowned Université de Tunis in the Tunisian capital. Its research work focuses on the effects of multidimensional disparity on models, visions and ideas about political, social, economic, and cultural futures. BMBF, 2020-2023
01.12.2019 - 30.11.2024

Monitoring System and Transfer Platform Radicalisation

"Monitoring System and Transfer Platform Radicalization" (MOTRA) is a research association in the context of civil security research (zivile Sicherheitsforschung) funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project was created as part of the establishment of a top-level research cluster for the early detection, prevention and combating of Islamic extremism and terrorism and will be a central point of contact over a period of five years. BMBF, 2019-2024
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