Dr. Alexander Schmotz
Research fields
CV
April - September 2019
Guest Professor for International Politics, Humboldt-University Berlin
February - March 2018
IDCAR Visting Fellow, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
August 2017
V-Dem Visting Fellow, Varieties of Democracy Institute, Universität Göteborg
since January 2017
Research fellow, Department of Democracy and Democratization
2014 - 2016
King's College London, Department of War Studies, in ERC-Projekt International Dimensions of Authoritarian Rule
2014
PhD in political science from Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS)
2010, 2011 - 2014
Research fellow in the research unit Democracy and Democratization at WZB, contributing to the project Critical Junctures and the Survival of Dictatorship
Selected Publications
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