Torsten Matzke, M.A.
Contact Information
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Exchange and Study Abroad Officer
Academic Background
Since 2014
Exchange and Study Abroad Officer at Abertay University of Dundee, Scotland
04/2009-04/2014
Academic Employee/Teaching Fellow at the Institute of Political Science, Tübingen
Ph.D. project on State-Business Relations and Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa
10-12/2010
Guest Lecturer at the American University in Cairo
01/2009
M.A. in Political Science and Middle East Studies, University of Tübingen.
Thesis title: The Political Economy of Structural Adjustment in the Egyptian Agrarian Sector. Analysing Economic Order in a Neo-Patrimonial Regime
2006/2007
Visiting student at the University of St Andrews, UK
Research Interests
State-Business Relations
Political Economy
Economic Policy
Development Politics
Euro-Mediterranean Relations
Country Expertise
Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Teaching
- Foundations and Key Concepts of Political Science (graduate course, Winter Semester 2013/2014)
- Theories of States and Regimes in Developing Countries (undergraduate course, Summer Semester 2013)
- Introduction to Political Science (in German, original title: "Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft"; undergraduate course, Winter Semester 2012/2013)
- Current Issues in the Mediterranean: Revolutions in the Arab World (graduate course, jointly taught with colleagues from The American University in Cairo and Cairo University, Winter Semester 2011/2012)
- Political Theory: Theories of Political Rule in Developing Countries (undergraduate course, Summer Semester 2011)
- State-Business Relations in Developing Countries (graduate course, Winter Semester 2010/2011)
- State-Business Relations in Developing Countries (undergraduate course taught at The American University in Cairo, Fall Semester 2010)
- Introduction to Political Economy (in German, original title: "Politische Wirtschaftslehre"; undergraduate course, Summer Semester 2010)
- The Political Systems of the Middle East under Stress: External Challenges and Authoritarian Survival (graduate course, Winter Semester 2009/2010)
- Political Theory: Theories of Political Rule in Developing Countries (in German, original title: "Politische Theorie: Theorien politischer Herrschaft in Entwicklungsländern"; undergraduate course, Summer Semester 2009)
Publications
- Länderbericht Saudi-Arabien, in: Internationales Handbuch - Länder aktuell, Ravensburg: Munzinger Archiv, 30/2013. [Saudi Arabia Country Report]
- Arabische Revolten und politische Herrschaft: Wie überlebensfähig sind Autokratien im Vorderen Orient?, in: Schneiders, Thorsten G. (ed.): Der Arabische Frühling, 2013, pp. 33-63 (co-authored with Oliver Schlumberger and Nadine Kreitmeyr). [Arab Revolts and Political Rule: How Viable are Autocracies in the Middle East and North Africa?]
- Wachstumspolitik für eine reiche Minderheit: Zu den sozioökonomischen Hintergründen der ägyptischen Revolution, in: Holger Albrecht and Thomas Demmelhuber (eds.): Revolution und Regimewandel in Ägypten, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2013, pp. 111-140. [Growth Policies for a Rich Minority: On the Socio-Economic Context of the Egyptian Revolution]
- Das Ende des Post-Populismus: Soziale und ökonomische Entwicklungstrends im arabischen Frühling, in: Der Bürger im Staat, 1-2/2012, pp. 56-63. [The End of Post-Populism: Social and Economic Development Trends in the Arab Spring]
- Debate on the Arab Spring: Path toward Democracy? The Role of Economic Development, in: Swiss Political Science Review, 18 (1), 2012, pp. 105-109, doi: 10.1111/j.1662-6370.2012.02058.x (co-authored with Oliver Schlumberger).
- Das jähe Ende von Mubaraks Crony Capitalists. Ägyptische Großunternehmer und die Revolution, in: inamo, 65/2011, pp. 8-11. [The Sudden Demise of Mubarak's Crony Capitalists. Egyptian Big Business and the Revolution]
- Länderbericht Saudi-Arabien, in: Internationales Handbuch - Länder aktuell, Ravensburg: Munzinger Archiv, 2/2011. [Saudi Arabia Country Report]
Conference Papers and Presentations
- Economic Populism as Strategy of Material Legitimation during the Arab Spring. Presentation, International Research Workshop "The Transformation of Political and Economic Orders around the Mediterranean", Tübingen, 6‐8 December 2012.
- The End of Post-Populism: Social and Economic Development Trends in the Arab Spring. Presentation, 19th congress of the German Middle East Studies Association, Erlangen, 4-6 October 2012.
- State-Business Relations, Economic Policy and Economic Development after the Arab Spring. Conference paper, "Realigning Power Geometries in the Arab World", Leipzig, 24-26 February 2012.
- Pro-Rich Growth - Growth Policies for a Rich Minority. On the Socio-Economic Causes of the Egyptian Revolution (in German, original title: "Pro-Rich Growth - Wachstumspolitik für eine reiche Minderheit. Zu den sozioökonomischen Ursachen der ägyptischen Revolution"). Presentation, 18th congress of the German Middle East Studies Association, Berlin, 6-8 October 2011.
- Democracy and Development - The Search for Causal Mechanisms and Egyptian Politics after January 25. Presentation, Modern Academy in Maadi, Cairo, 24 September 2011.
- States and Businesses in the Arab World: A one-sided relationship? Conference paper and presentation, Third World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Barcelona, 19-24 July 2010.
- State-Business Relations and Economic Development: Theoretical Perspectives on the Arab World. Conference paper and presentation, First Gulf Research Meeting, Cambridge, 7-10 July 2010.
- Conceptualising State-Business Relations in the Middle East and North Africa. Presentation, 16th congress of the German Middle East Studies Association, Bonn, 8-10 October 2009.
- Development through Export Orientation? A Political Economy View of the Egyptian Agrarian Sector (in German, original title: "Entwicklung durch Exportorientierung? Eine politökonomische Betrachtung des ägyptischen Agrarsektors"). Presentation, 14th congress of the German Middle East Studies Association, Freiburg i.B., 24-28 September 2007.
Memberships
- Alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation
- German Middle East Studies Association, Working Group on Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa
- Polis. Förderverein für Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Tübingen e.V.