Autoritärer Wandel

Autoritäre Praktiken kommen nicht nur in nicht-demokratischen Regimen zum Einsatz, sondern finden sich zunehmend auch in formal demokratischen Staaten, wie die Beispiele von shrinking civic space, Populismus und demokratischem Rückschritt zeigen. Erfahren Sie mehr über die Forschungs- und Transferaktivitäten des GIGA zu diesem Thema.

Autoritärer Wandel

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    Forschungsprojekt | 01.06.2025 - 31.12.2027

    Digital Authoritarianism through Lawfare: Mapping and Strengthening Civil Society Responses in Asia

    This project investigates the most potent weapon of digital authoritarianism - lawfare in the digital realm - in South and Southeast Asia. Building on previous research, it creates the first database in the world on the range of laws used for digital repression of civil society by autocratic/autocratising states, its impact on democracies and civil liberties, and countermeasures for democratic resistance and resilience.
    2025-2027

    Forschungsprojekt | 01.03.2025 - 28.02.2027

    Leftist Politics in Democratising Indonesia

    My project addresses the question of why the leftist element of civil society in Indonesia remains marginalised despite over two decades of democratisation that have ostensibly created a more open political landscape. It investigates the factors that hinder their consolidation, both related to organisational capacity and the socio-political structures. Specifically, it analyses the extent to which Indonesia’s recent democratic decline correlates with the continued absence of an organised left.
    AvH, 2025-2027

    Forschungsprojekt | 01.04.2023 - 31.03.2029

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

    The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) based in Tunis is the first and only Institute for Advanced Studies in North Africa. MECAM’s ambition is to become an intellectual hub that contributes to the emergence of cutting-edge, internationally relevant and visible research in the humanities and social sciences on, from and in the Maghreb and in particular with scholars from the Maghreb. The GIGA coordinates MECAM's publications as well as outreach and transfer activities.
    BMFTR, 2023-2029


    Democratization | 03.2026

    The Personalization of Political Power Revisited

    How does political power become personalized? This special issue examines the gradual concentration of authority in chief executives across regime types, the mechanisms that weaken checks and collective decision-making, and why it matters for institutions, policymaking, and political accountability.

    GIGA Focus Nahost | 1/2026

    Ten Things to Watch in the Middle East and North Africa in 2026

    Europa bleibt für Golfstaaten bei Investitionen und geopolitischen Überlegungen zweitrangig. In Gaza und im Sudan ist internationale Vermittlung nötig. Der Libanon und Syrien drohen zu zerfallen. Wir stellen zehn zentrale Themen vor, die im Jahr 2026 die Entwicklungen im Nahen Osten und Nordafrika prägen werden.

    Sammelband | The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) | 12.2025

    Syria After Assad

    This volume offers fresh insights into key issues shaping Syria’s transition one year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship: decentralization and state consolidation, sectarian violence, security-sector reform, transitional justice, refugee return, and sustainable economic recovery.

    POMEPS Studies | 12.2025

    Syria One Year After Assad

    This chapter summarizes the key findings of the other 13 chapters in the volume "Syria after Assad", bringing their arguments around decentralization and state consolidation, sectarian violence, security sector reform, transitional justice, refugee return, and economic reconstruction in conversation with each other.

    GIGA Roundtable | 15.01.2026

    Global Implications of US Intervention in Venezuela

    The consequences of the US administration’s military intervention in Venezuela to capture former president Nicolás Maduro, and Trump’s pledge to “run” the country indefinitely via interim president Delcy Rodríguez while the US secures the country’s oil resources, are reverberating regionally and globally. This roundtable brings together GIGA experts on Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to discuss these events, their drivers, as well as their worldwide implications.

    Workshop | 05.03.2026

    Middle Powers and Global (Dis)Order

    Middle Powers and Global (Dis)Order, St. George University, London Organisation: City, University of London Dr. Tomas Costa de Azevedo Marques (Panelbeitragende:r)

    This one-day workshop aims to examine the concept of Middle Powers from theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and policy perspectives in the context of a rapidly evolving and increasingly disordered global landscape.

    Workshop | 30.10.2025 - 31.10.2025

    Taking domestic and international audiences seriously: Justifications of repression in the Arab uprisings

    Authoritarian Convergence: Mechanisms, Strategies and Consequences of Policy Transfer in Post-Soviet States, Södertörn University, Stockholm Dr. Maria Josua (Vortragende:r)

    At the workshop bringing together scholars working on authoritarian diffusion in the post-Soviet space, Maria Josua contributed findings from her research within the IDCAR network next to presenting results of her DFG-funded project.

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    Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach

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