Profile 
Johannes Gerschewski
mail: gerschewski [at] wzb [dot] eu
D-10785 Berlin
Since 04/2011
Program Coordinator of Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences
Since 02/2011
Research fellow at WZB
Since 2008
PhD candidate at Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, HU Berlin and associated research fellow at GIGA Hamburg
2007-2008
Research scholarship at German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
2008
MA in International Business and Cultural Studies
2007
MA in Political Science, Philosophy, and Economics
2001/2002-2008
Studies in "International Business and Cultural Studies" as well as in Political Science, Philosophy, and Economics at University of Passau, Free University Berlin, and Yonsei University, Seoul
2011 (with Wolfgang Merkel): Wann stürzen und warum überleben Diktaturen? Überlegungen zur Stabilität und Instabilität autokratischer Regime, in: WZB-Mitteilungen (forthcoming).
2011 (with Patrick Köllner): Überlebensstrategien des posttotalitären Regimes in Nordkorea: Zum Zusammenhang von militärischen Aktivitäten und innerfamiliärem Machttransfer, in: ASIEN, 119 (April 2011), pp. 67-78.
2010: Zur Persistenz von Autokratien. Ein Literaturüberblick, in: Berliner Debatte Initial, 21:3, pp. 42-53.
2009 (with Martin Beck): On the Fringes of the International Community. The Making and Survival of "Rogue States", in: Sicherheit und Frieden/Security and Peace, 27:2, pp. 84-90.
2009 (with Patrick Köllner): Nordkorea und kein Ende? Zum Wandel innenpolitischer Legitimation und externer Stützung der DVRK, in: Maull, Hanns W./ Wagener, Martin (ed.), Ostasien in der Globalisierung, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp.167-189.
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
