Dr. Marika Sosnowski

Kurzer Lebenslauf

Since 06/2023: Associate at the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
09/2020 - 05/2023: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies (Funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation)
03/2020 - 08/2020: Associate at the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
2017 - 2019: PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Thesis: Ceasefires as Statebuilding
2014 - 2015: Admission as a lawyer to the Supreme Court of Victoria, Legal traineeship: Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Education: PhD University of Melbourne; Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Aktuelle Forschung

War-to-peace transitions
Ceasefires
Political order
Local rebel governance
Legal systems

Länder und Regionen

Syria

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Frieden und Sicherheit

Auszeichnungen

Syrian Studies Association 2020 Dissertation Prize, Syrian Studies Association (SSA), 2020

Dr. Marika Sosnowski

Associate

[email protected]

Blogbeitrag | 11.2023

Known Unknowns: Or the Things That You Thought You Knew about a Ceasefire in Gaza That It Turns Out You Did Not

Since the obscene attack by Hamas on Israel on 7 October 2023, the Israeli Defence Force has dropped between 18 and 35 kilotonnes of ammunition on the Gaza Strip on thousands of “targets”. Among these targets are hospitals, refugee camps, schools and mosques. For context, the combined explosive power of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in WWII was 36 kilotonnes. The rising death toll coupled with pictures of the utter physical destruction of the Strip bear witness to an overwhelming display of military power.

Dr. Marika Sosnowski

Associate

Monografie | Cambridge University Press | 05.2023

Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria

Dr. Marika Sosnowski

Associate

International Studies Quarterly | 03.2023

Fear and Violence, Loyalty and Treason: Settlement of Status in Syria

This article examines the arbitrary and oftentimes violent nature of loyalty and belonging in the case of Syria but with applicability to other authoritarian or high-surveillance contexts.

Dr. Marika Sosnowski

Associate

Small Wars and Insurgencies | 2022

Neither Peace nor Democracy: The Role of Siege and Population Control in the Syrian Regime’s Coercive Counterinsurgency Campaign

This article examines the role of siege warfare and population control in the coercive counterinsurgency strategy used by the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad to effectively crush the revolution that began in 2011.

Benedetta Berti

Nordatlantische Vertragsorganisation

Dr. Marika Sosnowski

Associate

GIGA Focus Nahost | 4/2021

„Das Recht, Rechte zu haben“: Die Dokumentation von Identität im syrischen Bürgerkrieg

Während des Bürgerkriegs in Syrien stellten verschiedene Akteure legale Identitätsdokumente aus. Die Nachteile dieses Geflechts ineinandergreifender Dokumente für die Eltern-, Erb- und Eigentumsrechte der Menschen, insbesondere von Frauen, werden in diesem GIGA Focus Nahost analysiert.

Dr. Marika Sosnowski

Associate

Noor Hamadeh

International Corporate Accountability Roundtable

Forschungsprojekt | 01.09.2022 - 31.08.2023

Legal Identity Under Insurgencies and Unrecognised States

Legal identity is a target of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)s and it underpins the SDGs at large. Not having a recognized legal identity can severely implicate people’s human rights and it may cause statelessness. Our project goes to the core of unresolved tensions around theorising sovereign statehood and the authority to make law.
Swedish Research Council, 2022-2023

Forschungsprojekt | 01.09.2020 - 31.08.2022

Syria’s “Post-war” Landscape

The architecture of “post-conflict” Syria is intrinsically linked to war dynamics, making it far from a tabula rasa but replete with a range of competing forms of authority. This project investigates the changing nature of the Syrian state and its interactions with non-state actors such as militia leaders, economic elites, tribal leaders, international organisations and investors. It focuses on three topics: local security providers and governance; legal identity; housing, land and property rights.
Fritz Thyssen Foundation, 2020-2022

Good Will Hunters | Interview | 19.10.2020

The Free Kylie Campaign - Where to from here?

Konferenz | 04.09.2023 - 08.09.2023

The Bureaucratic Revolution: The Syrian Opposition’s Civil Registry System

ECPR General Conference 2023, Charles University, Prague Organisation: European Consortium for Political Research Dr. Marika Sosnowski (Vortragende:r)

Dr. Marika Sosnowski presents her paper "The bureaucratic revolution: The Syrian opposition’s civil registry system" at the ECPR General Conference 2023 in Prague. The presentation is part of the panel "The lived legal realities of de facto sovereign states", co-chaired by her. Panel discussant is GIGA expert Dr. André Bank.

Dr. Marika Sosnowski

Associate

GIGA Talk | 12.05.2022

„If there is a ceasefire, people know the devil is coming“

„If there is a ceasefire, people know the devil is coming“, Online event Organisation: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Prof. Dr. Christian von Soest (Chair), Dr. Marika Sosnowski (Vortragende:r), Dr. Rim Turkmani (Vortragende:r), Benedetta Berti (Diskutant:in), Dr. Bente Scheller (Diskutant:in)

Die Folgen von Waffenstillständen sind nicht unbedingt positiv. Inwiefern Forschung und Erfahrungen aus Syrien praktische Strategien für die Verhandlung von Waffenstillständen in der Ukraine liefern können, diskutieren renommierte Vertreter:innen aus Forschung und Praxis in diesem GIGA Talk.

Prof. Dr. Christian von Soest

Dr. Marika Sosnowski

Dr. Rim Turkmani

Benedetta Berti

Dr. Bente Scheller

Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | 26.08.2021

Citizenship constellations in Syria

Organisation: Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, University of Melbourne Dr. Marika Sosnowski (Vortragende:r)

This talk begins to rectify this by adding to scholarship on citizenship and rebel governance to question how non-state actors in Syria are going about establishing legal identity; what non-state issued documents this results in; and, the interplay between Syrian state and non-state based documentation systems.

Dr. Marika Sosnowski

Associate