Maria Josua
 Research Fellow
                            Politics                                                        
German Institute for Global and Area Studies
                                                        Germany
                        
Biography
Since 2015: Speaker of Research Team "Authoritarian Politics", Research Programme 1. Since 07/2014: Research Fellow at GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies, coordinator of IDCAR network. 2009 - 2014: Research Associate and Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen, Research Unit on Middle East and Comparative Politics
Research Interest
Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East and North Africa Authoritarian learning Legitimation of authoritarian regimes Repression of protest movements