16.06.2015

Institutskolloquium: From Disaffection to Defection

Holger Albrecht (AUC Cairo) at Wednesday, 17th June 2014, 16:15 h, Room 124, IfP

From Disaffection to Defection: How Social Networks Facilitate Military Insubordination in the Syrian Civil War

Holger Albrecht is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science. He received his PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and joined AUC in 2008. He teaches courses in comparative politics and Middle East politics, and his recent research interests in civil-military relations brought him to the United States Institute of Peace, in 2012 and 2013, where he was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow. He was also a visiting fellow at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. Apart from the role of the military in politics, Holger is interested more generally in questions of authoritarian resilience and regime change, political opposition in the Middle East and North Africa, and political participation in the region. He is the author of Raging Against the Machine: Political Opposition under Authoritarianism in Egypt (Syracuse University Press, 2013) and the editor of Contentious Politics in the Middle East (University Press of Florida, 2010). Holger is currently working on an edited volume on Armies and the Arab Spring and a number of journal articles. He travels extensively in the Middle East and, apart from Egypt, has become particularly interested in Yemen, Syria and Tunisia.