“Vietnam and Cuba as revolutionary role-models? Debates among the Arab Left since 1967”
This project examines the political and ideological orientations of the Arab Left after the crushing defeat by Israel in June 1967 in respect to its views of other „Third World“ revolutionary movements...
New Middle Eastern Regionalism: Arab-Israeli Normalisation and Shifting Paradigms of a Region
Michael Nuding
The norms that have historically shaped regionalism in the Middle East are currently undergoing a profound transformation. The ongoing Arab-Israeli normalization initiatives exemplify a not...
Saudi go home! - Saudi Arabian interventions in the Yemeni Civil War and implications for a peace process
Jan Mewes
Despite having lost some of its intensity, the ongoing civil war in Yemen still is a major military conflict and a grave humanitarian crisis. Causes and possible resolution appear as...
The Guardians of the Twitterverse.
Narratives of Climate Change in the Saudi Twittersphere
Laura Schuhn
Under the umbrella of Vision 2030, the Saudi government makes efforts to develop more transparent, accountable, and responsive government agencies and to strengthen the participation and inclus...
Legitimation Strategies of Turkish and Tunisian Political Parties from 2001-2020
Jonas Knoblach
Over the past two decades, Turkey and Tunisia have been seen as potential role models for the democratisation process in the MENA-region. Due to the authoritarian drift under Erdoğan and Saied, this ass...
Sentimentality and State-Society Relations: The Consolidation of Collective Identities in Gulf Monarchies
Antonia Thies
Antonia's research project examines the forms and functions of sentimentality in the consolidation of collective identities using the example of selected Gulf monarchies (Saudi A...
'Us against Them' in the Name of the French Nation:
Discursive Practices of Affective Polarization during the 2017 and 2022 Election Campaigns and the Temptation of Sentimentality as a Challenge to Liberal Democracy
Andrea Klinger
Against the backdrop of an ongoing third wave of autocratization...
