Prof. Dr. Aurel Croissant - Bio

Aurel Croissant received his M.A. in Political Science from Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, in 1996. He started his career as adjunct researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Mainz and Heidelberg. In 2001, he received a doctoral degree (Dr. phil) in Political Science from Mainz University and was promoted to a non-tenured position as ‘Wissenschaftlicher Assistent’ (C1) at the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg. In 2004, he accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Since 2006, he has been Professor of Political Science (W3) at Heidelberg University. For more information, please refer to the curriculum vitae .

His main research interests include comparative democratization and democracy research; authoritarnism and autocratization; civil–military relations; militarization studies; party politics; civil society; conflict research; the comparative politics of East and Southeast Asia. His research is documented in more than 300 scholarly publications in German, English, Indonesian, Russian and Spanish, including several  monographs and edited volumes and articles in journals such as Party Politics, Democratization, Electoral Studies, Armed Forces & Society, Pacific Review, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Journal of East Asian Studies, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Political Studies, Contemporary Politics, Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Journal of the German Association for Political Science (PVS), Journal of Political Science (ZPol), and Comparative Governance and Politics (ZfVP). For a comprehensive list of his publications, please refer to the publications document .

He is editor-in-chief of the journal Democratization and of the book series Democratization Special Issues Series (Taylor and Francis), Politik in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika (Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America, VS Verlag) and Weltregionen im Wandel (World Regions in Transition, Nomos). He is on the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Contemporary Southeast Asian Affairs, referee for numerous German and international journals, publishers and academic funding institutions. He is member of the academic advisory boards of the German Institute for Global Affairs (GIGA), the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (ZMSBw), the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) and the Bertelsmann Transformation-Index (BTI).