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Information for students interested in a PhD project

Please consider the following conditions/requirements:

General conditions: A master degree in political science or in an intersection between political science and Middle Eastern studies is required (final grade at least 2,0 – acc.to German grading scale; i.e. “excellent”).

Potential topics: You should make sure that the topic of your dissertation matches the research interests of the chair.

Preparation of a proposal: You should hand in a proposal of approximately 10 pages that captures your research question and its scientific relevance, an overview of the methodology you are planning to adapt as well as possible outcomes of your research.

As a doctoral candidate, you are expected to submit a formal application of your dissertation project at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, sign a supervision agreement, and participate in the research colloquium (weekly event during the semester). Once every semester, doctoral candidates should present the state of their research in the colloquium.

Interested and all requirements fulfilled? Get in touch with us via email: katharina.nicolai@fau.de

Current PhD projects

  • Jan Mewes: “Saudi go home! – Saudi Arabian interventions in the Yemeni Civil War and implications for a peace process”

    Towards entry "Jan Mewes: “Saudi go home! – Saudi Arabian interventions in the Yemeni Civil War and implications for a peace process”"

    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...

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  • Jonas Knoblach: “Legitimation Strategies of Turkish and Tunisian Political Parties from 2001-2020”

    Towards entry "Jonas Knoblach: “Legitimation Strategies of Turkish and Tunisian Political Parties from 2001-2020”"

    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...

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  • Antonia Thies: “Sentimentality and State-Society Relations: The Consolidation of Collective Identities in Gulf Monarchies””

    Towards entry "Antonia Thies: “Sentimentality and State-Society Relations: The Consolidation of Collective Identities in Gulf Monarchies””"

    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...

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  • Laura Schuhn: “The Guardians of the Twitterverse.”

    Towards entry "Laura Schuhn: “The Guardians of the Twitterverse.”"

    The Guardians of the Twitterverse. Narratives of Climate Change in the Saudi Twittersphere Laura Schuhn Saudi Arabia is currently experiencing multiple processes of transformation, with comprehensive and ambitious programs aiming to diversify its economy, promising greater transparency and accoun...

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  • Andrea Klinger: “‘Us against Them’ in the Name of the French Nation”

    Towards entry "Andrea Klinger: “‘Us against Them’ in the Name of the French Nation”"

    '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 u...

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Completed PhD projects

2022: Dr. Aline de Oliveira Alencar: Ennahda from within: from Political Islam to Muslim Democracy

2021: Dr. Christina Hartmann: Changes in Jihadi Discourse in the Wake of the Islamic State

2020: Dr. Tobias Zumbrägel: The delusion of being eco-friendly: Environmental policy making and the quest of legitimation in the oil-rich Arab Gulf monarchies

2020: Dr. Nina Nowar: Local Normative Spaces. Dynamiken der Aushandlung von Identität und Moral im öffentlichen Raum von Tunis

2019: Dr. Matthias Sailer: Über die außenpolitischen Interessen der arabischen Golfstaaten gegenüber Ägypten seit 2011

2017: Dr. Ziad Koussa: The Arab Revolutionary Uprisings in Egypt: An Analysis of David Harvey’s framework of Accumulation by Dispossession

2015: Dr. Christian Wolff: Freiheit, Bürger und Staat: die Entwicklung libaralen Denkens in der ägyptischen Muslimbruderschaft (supervised by Prof. Dr. Christoph Schumann, Prof. Dr. Thomas Philipp)

2013: Dr. Mahmoud Jaraba: Moderation or Transformation: Explaining the Different Ideological Trajectories of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the Turkish Justice and Development Party (supervised by Prof. Dr. Christoph Schumann)

2012: Dr. Meltem Kulaçatan: Geschlechterdiskurse in den Medien: Türkisch-deutsche Presse in Europa (supervised by Prof. Dr. Christoph Schumann, Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe)

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