The global regression of democracy is often accompanied by shrinking spaces for civil society actors. These shrinking spaces can also be observed in Southeast Asia and jeopardize the democratic progress of the last three decades. The special issue of the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, e...
We cordially invite you to a lecture by Prof. Ross Harrison (Middle East Institute, Washington DC). Prof. Harrison is a renowned expert on US foreign policy in the MENA region. He is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute and also on the faculty in the Political Science department at the Unive...
Prof. Bünte’s most recent publication sheds light on the role of presidentialism in the process of democratic backsliding in East and Southeast Asia. The volume co-edited with Mark R. Thompson volume is a cooperation of renowned international scholars working in the field of presidentialism studies....
They are rare and left out in the discussion of contemporary authoritarian regimes. Prof. Bünte has published an article in the journal Government and Opposition, which discusses tutelary interference as a spectrum of possible and not mutually exclusive roles which tutelary powers perform, depending...
After the blast that destroyed last parts of the Lebanese capital in August. Christian Thuselt, Assistant Professor at Erlangen University, on a distorted picture of Lebanon as a place of some obscure elite as opposed to "the people" in the current media discourse, full article available at: https:/...
