Research Fellow | Research Team Spokesperson
Since 07/2019: Spokesperson of the Research Team "Authoritarian Politics", Research Programme 1
2015 - 2018: Spokesperson of the 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
Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East and North Africa
Authoritarian learning
Legitimation of authoritarian regimes
Repression of protest movements
Algeria
Jordan
Research Fellow / Research Team Spokesperson
T. +49 (0)40 - 428 25-714maria.josua@giga-hamburg.de