Dr. Christian Thuselt, PhD
- 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
- 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
2020
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
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Wer ist hier eigentlich Elite? Volk, Parteien und Elite im Libanon.
In: Zenith, 2020
Open Access: https://magazin.zenith.me/de/politik/volk-parteien-und-elite-im-libanon
URL: https://magazin.zenith.me/de/politik/volk-parteien-und-elite-im-libanon
(online publication)
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‘We Wander in Your Footsteps’ – Reciprocity and Contractility in Lebanese Personality-centred Parties (Reprint)
In: Randjbar-Daemi, Siavush; Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Eskandar; Banko, Lauren (ed.): Political Parties in the Middle East, London: Routledge, 2020, p. 44-60
ISBN: 978-1-138-39096-6
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2019
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
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2018
"Dream of a Republic" - Lebanese Political Parties as "Real Parties" (Dissertation, 2018)
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2017
‘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
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2016
Religiöse Bewegungen als politische Akteure im Nahen Osten
Baden-Baden: 2016
(Nahoststudien/Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 2)
ISBN: 978-3-8487-1472-8
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"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
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2015
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
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2014
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
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2012
"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
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