Christian Thuselt, PhD

Assistant Professor

Institute of Political Science
Chair of Middle East Politics and Society

Room 0.015
Kochstraße 4
91054 Erlangen
Germany

Phone number: +49 9131 85-24774
Email: christian.thuselt@fau.de

Office Hours

Office hours will be arranged upon request via Zoom: Please register with a short mail (christian.thuselt@fau.de) to receive a link and a password

Curriculum Vitae

1999 Abitur Pforzheim
2000-2007 MA-Studies Political Science, History at Tübingen University, Language Course in Arabic at Damascus and Beirut
2007 MA-Thesis on Lebanon
2007-2012 Private Tutor
2010- Lecturer at Erlangen-Nuremberg University
2013- associated with the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE)
2018 PhD thesis at Roskilde University/Denmark

Grants, Internships

2006 German Diet (Office G. Krichbaum/K. Segner, MdB)
2010 Internship Deutsches Orient-Institut Beirut
2012 Grant Deutsches Orient-Institut Beirut

Fieldwork-/ Study Visits in the Middle East

Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine

Fields of Research

Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, political theory, religion and politics, theories of modernity (-ies), political parties in the Middle East, state-building and -failure, nationalism, Christianity in the Middle East

Courses Taught

Undergraduate seminary “The Middle East in a Nutshell: Lebanon as field of conflict and a failing state”, Summer Term 2021
MA-seminary “Nationalism in the Middle East: the cases if Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon”, Winter Term 2020/21, together with M. Merhavy, PhD
MA-seminary “Gardens without a fence? Legitimatory strategies as part of a nation-building process”, Summer Term 2020
Undergraduate seminary “International Relations of the Middle East “, Summer Term 2020 (Nuremberg campus)
Undergraduate seminary “Introduction into Islamist Thinking”, Summer Term 2020
Undergraduate seminary “Nationalism in the Middle East”, Winter Term 2019/20
BA-seminary “Political Parties in the Middle East”, Summer Term 2019
Lecture “Introduction into Political Research on the Middle East”, Summer Term 2019
Undergraduate seminary “Nationalism in the Middle East”, Winter Term 2018/19
Coordinator lecture/tutorials “Introduction into Political Science”, Winter Term 2018/19
Undergraduate seminary “The First World War as a Stimulus for Re-Ordering the Middle East”, Summer Term 2018
Undergraduate seminary “Introduction into Islamist Thinking”, Summer Term 2018
Undergraduate seminary “Political Sectarianism in the Middle East”, Summer Term 2018
Undergraduate seminary “Introduction into Islamist Thinking”, Winter Term 2017/18
Undergraduate seminary “Consociationalism and Authoritarianism: Lebanon and Syria as Neighbors and Pair of Opposites”, Winter Term 2017/18
Undergraduate seminary “From the Arab Spring to the Arab Winter. The Breakdown of a Regional System”, Summer Term 2017
Undergraduate seminary “Concepts of Political Domination in the Middle East”, Summer Term 2017
Undergraduate seminary “War, Expulsion and Massacre in the Modern Middle East”, Summer Term 2017
Undergraduate seminary “Conflict Management in Middle Eastern Political Systems”, Winter Term 2016/17
Undergraduate seminary “Shirt Parties in the Middle East”, Winter Term 2016/17
Undergraduate seminary “Concepts of Political Domination in the Middle East”, Summer Term 2016
Undergraduate seminary “Political System of Syria”, Summer Term 2016
Undergraduate seminary “The Lebanese Civil War [1975-1990] as a Paradigm of State-Failure”, Summer Term 2016
BA-seminary and reading course ““You are the Source of Power”? Domination, Modernity, and Democracy in the Middle East”, Winter Term 2015/16
Undergraduate seminary “Failing-States in the Middle East: The Examples of Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon”, Winter Term 2015/16
Undergraduate seminary “”Sovereign Creations”? Nation-Building as a Political Project of Modernity in the Middle East”, Summer Term 2015
Undergraduate seminary “Political System of Syria”, Summer Term 2014
Undergraduate seminary “Different Types of Authoritarian Rule”, Summer Term 2014
Undergraduate seminary “Political Sectarianism as Anachronism? The Examples of Syria and Lebanon”, Winter Term 2013/14
Colloquium for BA/MA-students, taken over from Prof. C. Schumann
Undergraduate seminary “The Political System of Lebanon: Nation-Building in a Heterogeneous Society”, Summer Term 2013
MA-seminary “Political Economy of the Middle East”, Summer Term 2013
Undergraduate seminary “Arab Spring: The End of Stability of Authoritarian Systems?”, together with P. Lintl and C. Wolff, Winter Term 2012/13
Undergraduate seminary “Authoritarian Political Systems in Underdeveloped Countries”, Summer Term 2011
Undergraduate seminary “Theories of Political Systems of Underdeveloped Countries”, Summer Term 2010

Publications

2019

Thuselt C.:
Sois belle et vote - Wahlwerbung einer libanesischen Partei
In: Christian Schicha (ed.): Wahlwerbespots zur Bundestagswahl 2017. Analysen und Anschlussdiskurse über parteipolitische Kurzfilme in Deutschland, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2019, p. 529-546
ISBN: 978-3-658-24404-0
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-24405-7
URL: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783658244040

2018

Thuselt C.:
"Dream of a Republic" - Lebanese Political Parties as "Real Parties" (Dissertation, 2018)

2017

Thuselt C.:
‘We wander in your footsteps’—reciprocity and contractility in Lebanese personality-centred parties
In: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 44 (2017), p. 194-210
ISSN: 1353-0194
DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2017.1281573
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2017.1281573

2016

Lintl P., Thuselt C., Wolff C. (ed.):
Religiöse Bewegungen als politische Akteure im Nahen Osten
Baden-Baden: 2016
(Nahoststudien/Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 2)
ISBN: 978-3-8487-1472-8
Thuselt C.:
"Training in Morals" - zur Rolle und Verwendung religiöser Narrative im Diskurs der "Forces Libanaises"
In: Peter Lintl, Christian Thuselt, Christian Wolff (ed.): Religiöse Bewegungen als politische Akteure im Nahen Osten, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2016, p. 195-225 (Nahoststudien/Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.2)
ISBN: 978-3-8487-1472-8

2015

Thuselt C.:
Milizen als Surrogat eines dysfunktionalen Staates: Das Beispiel der Lebanese Forces
In: Sicherheit und Frieden Themenschwerpunkt Milizen (2015), p. 193-199
ISSN: 0175-274X
DOI: 10.5771/0175-274X-2015-4-21
URL: http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0175-274X-2015-4/s-f-sicherheit-und-frieden-jahrgang-33-2015-heft-4

2014

Thuselt C., Lintl P., Wolff C.:
Demokratische Paradoxien: Volkssouveränität in Ägypten zwischen Aufstand und Autokratie.
In: Georges Tamer, Hanna Röbbelen, Peter Lintl (ed.): Arabischer Aufbruch. Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Einordnung eines zeitgeschichtlichen Phänomens, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2014, p. 293-329 (Nahoststudien/Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.1)
ISBN: 978-3-8487-1386-8

2012

Thuselt C.:
"Und wenn die Krankheit sich der Behandlung widersetzt (...), vielleicht existiert dann die Verpflichtung zur Revolution". Systemantagonistische Opposition im Konkordanzsystem am Beispiel des Libanon.
In: Stefan Köppl/Uwe Kranenpohl (ed.): Konkordanzdemokratie. Ein Demokratietyp der Vergangenheit?, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2012, p. 395-417 (Tutzinger Studien zur Politik, Vol.2)
ISBN: 978-3-8329-7066-6
URL: http://www.nomos-shop.de/K%C3%B6ppl-Kranenpohl-Konkordanzdemokratie/productview.aspx?product=14181

Christian Thuselt, PhD