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Prof. Christoph Stefes , PhD
D-10785 Berlin
since 2011
Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), research unit "Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges" - Coordination of the research project "Critical Junctures and the Survival of Dictatorships. Explaining the Stability of Autocratic Regimes", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2009
Tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
since 2002
Assistant Professor for Comparative European and Post-Soviet Studies, University of Colorado, Denver
2002
PhD, International Studies, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
1997
MA, International Studies, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
1994
Intermediate examination, teaching degree for secondary schools (Lehramt Sek 2): German and History, University of Tübingen and Universiteit Groningen
Sehring, Jenniver/Stefes, Christoph H. (2010): "Die Stabilität von kompetitiv-autoritären Regimen: Armenien, Georgien, Kasachstan und Kirgistan im Vergleich". In: Holger Albrecht/Rolf Frankenberger (Eds.): Autoritarismus Reloaded. Neuere Ansätze und Erkenntnisse der Autokratieforschung. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 275-294
Stefes, Christoph H. (2010): "Autoritäre Parteien und Kooptation im Kaukasus und auf dem Balkan". In: Berliner Debatte Initial, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 100-112
Wooden, Amanda E./Stefes, Christoph H. (Eds.) (2009): The Politics of Transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus. London/New York: Routledge
Stefes, Christoph H. (2006): Understanding Post-Soviet Transitions: Corruption, Collusion and Clientelism. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Barrios, Harald/Stefes, Christoph H. (Eds.) (2006): Einführung in die Comparative Politics. München/Wien: Oldenbourg Verlag
2011-2014
Critical Junctures and the Survival of Dictatorships. Explaining the Stability of Autocratic Regimes, funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).
Participating scientists:
Wolfgang Merkel, Christoph Stefes, Alexander Schmotz, Johannes Gerschewski, Dag Tanneberg
