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Dr. Maria Josua

Research Fellow

Speaker Research Team

Short CV

  • Since 07/2019: Speaker of Research Team "Authoritarian Politics", Research Programme 1

  • 2015 - 2018: Speaker of Research Team "Authoritarian Politics", Research Programme 1

  • Since 07/2014: Research Fellow at GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies, coordinator of IDCAR network

  • 2009 - 2014: Research Associate and Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen, Research Unit on Middle East and Comparative Politics

  • Education: M.A. in Political Science, Islamic Studies and Public International Law at the University of Tübingen and the University of Copenhagen, 2002-2009; PhD dissertation "The Arab Uprisings as Crises of Legitimacy: Success and Failure of Strategies of Political Rule in Jordan and Algeria" at the University of Tübingen, 2009-2014

Current Research

  • Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East and North Africa

  • Authoritarian learning

  • Legitimation of authoritarian regimes

  • Repression of protest movements

Countries and Regions

  • Algeria

  • Jordan

Research Programme

  • Accountability and Participation

Projects

01/07/2019 - 30/06/2023

Justifying Repression in Authoritarian Regimes of the Arab World: Official Framing and Target Audiences

This project offers a new perspective on how repression can sustain authoritarianism. It focuses on Tunesia and Morocco – two countries with divergent trajectories during the Arab uprisings. Bridging framing and autocracy research, the project develops a new concept of justifications of repression. It shows how their application in different branches of government differs, why certain types of justifications are chosen, and what effect they have. DFG, 2019-2023