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Dr. Thomas Richter

Senior Research Fellow

Editor GIGA Focus Middle East

Short CV

  • Since 10/2018: Editor GIGA Focus Middle East

  • 04/2018 - 05/2018: IDCAR Visiting Fellow at WZB Berlin in the Research Unit “Democracy and Democratization”

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

  • 2016 - 2018: Coordinator GIGA Forum

  • 2011 - 2015: Speaker of the GIGA Research Team "Persistence and Change in Non-Democratic Regimes" in the Research Programme 1

  • Since 2013: Senior Research Fellow at GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies

  • 2008 - 2013: Research Fellow at GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies

  • 2007 - 2008: PhD-Fellow at BIGSSS Bremer International Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen (Scholarship of Hans-Böckler Foundation)

  • 2003 - 2007: PhD-Fellow at the GSSS Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen (Scholarship of Hans-Böckler Foundation)

  • Education: Studies in Political Science, Economics and Islamic Studies at the Eberhard-Karls University Tuebingen and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); Dissertation „Authoritarian Rule, Material Resources and Foreign Trade Reforms: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan between 1970 and 2003”; 2008: PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) at the University of Bremen (summa cum laude)

Current Research

  • Foreign Trade Reforms in Developing Countries

  • Institutionel and Material Determinants of Authoritarian Rule

  • Structural Adjustment, Sectoral Transformations and Tourism Development

Countries and Regions

  • Small Gulf states

Research Programme

  • Accountability and Participation

  • Power and Ideas

Projects

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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