Aurel Croissant

Biography

Dr Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University, Germany, and Visiting Professor with the GSIS Frontier 10-10 project at Ewha Womans University, South Korea. His research interests include civil-military relations, democratisation, authoritarianism, and comparative Asian politics. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Democratization and serves on the Academic Advisory Boards of the German Institute for Global Affairs, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the Bertelsmann Transformation Index, and the Sustainable Governance Indicators. He held Fellowships with the Korea Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy, the East West Center (Honolulu), the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, and the Australian National University, among others. His recent publications include Routes to Reform: Civil-Military Relations and Democracy in the Third Wave (Oxford University Press, 2023), Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia (2nd edition, Springer), Stateness and Democracy in East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2020; edited with O. Hellmann), and Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He also serves as co-editor of the Research Handbook Autocratization (Routledge, 2024) and the Research Handbook on Civil-Military Relations (Edward Elgar, 2024). His new manuscript, Dictator’s Endgames, is currently under contract with Oxford University Press.

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