Christian Thuselt, PhD
Assistant Professor
Kochstraße 4
91054 Erlangen
Germany
Institute of Political Science
Chair of Middle East Politics and Society
Kochstraße 4
91054 Erlangen
Germany
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-24774
- Email: christian.thuselt@fau.de
Office Hours
Office hours take place during winter term each Wednesday 10-12 pm via Zoom: Please register with a short mail (christian.thuselt@fau.de) to receive a link and a password; non-virtual appointments can be arranged individually
- 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
- 2006 German Diet (Office G. Krichbaum/K. Segner, MdB)
- 2010 Internship Deutsches Orient-Institut Beirut
- 2012 Grant Deutsches Orient-Institut Beirut
Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine
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
- 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
2020
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Book Review on A. Kadir Yildirim,Muslim Democratic Parties in the Middle East. Economy and Politics of Islamist Moderation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016 (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies).
In: Die Welt des Islams 60 (2020), p. 132-135
DOI: 10.1163/15700607-00601P14
2019
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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
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"Dream of a Republic" - Lebanese Political Parties as "Real Parties" (Dissertation, 2018)
2017
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‘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
- , , (ed.):
Religiöse Bewegungen als politische Akteure im Nahen Osten
Baden-Baden: 2016
(Nahoststudien/Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 2)
ISBN: 978-3-8487-1472-8 - :
"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
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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
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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
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"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
- “Wer ist hier eigentlich Elite?” Essay published 2020-10-05, https://magazin.zenith.me/de/politik/volk-parteien-und-elite-im-libanon
- „Droht eine Libanisierung Syriens?“, 22.11.2011, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=169
- „Libanesen und Iraner in Syriens Sicherheitsapparat?“, 05.12.2011, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=225
- „Zwischen Verstrickung und Angst: Der Libanon und die Revolution“, 24.01.2012, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=313
- „Zur (Un-)Wirksamkeit internationaler Sanktionen“, 07.02.2012, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=313
- „Kurzfristig im Sattel, langfristig im Ausverkauf“, 12.03.2012, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=503
- „Vom Rauschen im Leserbriefwald, der syrischen Opposition und dem „Heißsporn“ al-`Ar`ur“,09.05.2012, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=625
- „Die Welt zu Gast beim Investmentfond oder die Maus die brüllte“, 09.06.2012, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=844
- „Zwischen Elite und letztem Aufgebot“, 13.08. und 27.08.2012, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=903 und http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=958
- „Die Bombe von Beirut“, 26.10.2012, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=1050
- „Die Syrisierung des Libanon“, 02.04.2013, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=1256
- „Der syrische Bürgerkrieg als bewaffnetes Franchising“, 09.10.2013, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=11447
- „Es geht nicht um Staaten, es geht um Ordnungen“, 21.06.2014, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=33082
- „Von der Milizionarisierung Syriens“, 17.11.2014, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=161496
- „Die Müllkrise und der Kult um die Zivilgesellschaft“, 03.09.2015, http://www.fokus-nahost.de/?p=16184