German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

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Ass. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Elischer

Former Associate

Ass. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Elischer

  • Short CV

    • Since 08/2015: Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Florida, USA

    • Since 02/2014: Coordinator Collaborative Research Group 'African Politics' (AEGIS)

    • 10/2012 - 07/2015: Junior professor for comparative political science at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Senior Research Fellow at GIGA Institute of African Affairs

    • 04/2009 - 09/2012: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs, research project " Systemic Comparisons of Hybrid Regimes in Africa"

    • Education: International Relations, University of Wales/Aberstwyth (B.Sc.); International Relations, Freie Universität Berlin (M.A.); International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington DC (MIS), Doctoral Student, Jacobs University Bremen

    Current Research

    • Political Parties and Party Systems

    • Democratisation

    • Hybrid Regimes

    Countries and Regions

    • Ghana

    • Kenia

    • Kamerun

    • Niger

    • Namibia

    Ass. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Elischer

    Former Associate

    Publications

    Washington Post, Monkey Cage | 05/2015

    Taking stock of ‘good coups’ in Africa

    Ass. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Elischer

    Former Associate

    GIGA Focus International Edition Chinese | 1/2014

    萨拉菲斯特主义者在非洲：未必是恐 怖主义的开路先锋

    Ass. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Elischer

    Former Associate

    GIGA Focus Africa | 3/2014

    Salafisten in Afrika: nicht zwingend Wegbereiter des Terrorismus

    Ass. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Elischer

    Former Associate

    GIGA Working Papers | 08/2013

    Contingent Democrats in Action: Organized Labor and Regime Change in the Republic of Niger

    Ass. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Elischer

    Former Associate

    Politische Vierteljahresschrift | 2013

    Auf dem Rückzug in die Kasernen? Autoritäre Herrschaft und das Militär im subsaharischen Afrika

    Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau

    Director of the GIGA Institute for African Affairs / Editor GIGA Focus Africa

    Ass. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Elischer

    Former Associate

    Lectures

    GIGA Event | 29/11/2012

    Ontology and Methodology – challenges for theory and practice in International Relations and Comparative Area Studies

    Ontology and Methodology – challenges for theory and practice in International Relations and Comparative Area Studies, Hamburg Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Dr. Nicola Nymalm (Moderator), Annika Mattissek (Panelist), Georg Glasze (Panelist), Stefanie Wodrig (Moderator), Chris Methmann (Panelist), Ass. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Elischer (Moderator), Patrick T. Jackson (Panelist), Dr. Delf Rothe (Panelist), Dr. Maren Wagner (née Hoepfner) (Moderator), Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (Panelist), Ass. Prof. Dr. B.A. (Benjamin) Herborth (Panelist)

    Ontology and Methodology – challenges for theory and practice in International Relations and Comparative Area Studies. International Workshop in cooperation with the University of Hamburg

    Dr. Nicola Nymalm

    Annika Mattissek

    Georg Glasze

    Stefanie Wodrig

    Chris Methmann

    Ass. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Elischer

    Patrick T. Jackson

    Dr. Delf Rothe

    Dr. Maren Wagner (née Hoepfner)

    Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

    Ass. Prof. Dr. B.A. (Benjamin) Herborth

    Teaching

    Teaching | Leuphana University of Lüneburg | 2013

    Comparing Political Systems in Non-Western Democracies

    Leuphana University of Lüneburg Lüneburg Germany

    Teaching | Leuphana University of Lüneburg | 2013

    Qualitative Research Methods in Comparative Politics

    Leuphana University of Lüneburg Lüneburg Germany

    Teaching | Leuphana University of Lüneburg | 2013

    Regional Cooperation

    Leuphana University of Lüneburg Lüneburg Germany

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