Dr Hendrik Kraetzschmar is Associate Professor in Middle East Politics and Director of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures.
Research
Dr Kraetzschmar’s main area of research is the nature of electoral and party politics in the Middle East and North Africa as well as Arab civil society and state-society relations. He is supervising several students working on the IR and Comparative Politics of the region and has published in a number of academic journals. His most recent edited publication is The Dynamics of Opposition Cooperation: Contentious Politics in Times of Change (Routledge 2013). His full Leeds University profile can be found here.
Publications:
Cavatorta, F. & Kraetzschmar, H. 2014. ‘Ballots over Bullets: Islamist Groups, the State and Electoral Violence in Egypt and Morocco’ in J. Haynes (ed.) Religion and Political Change in the Modern World. Routledge (forthcoming).
Kraetzschmar, H. 2013. ‘Empowerment through the Ballot Box? Women’s Suffrage and Electoral Participation in the Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry’, Journal of Arabian Studies 3/1, pp. 102-119.
Kraetzschmar, H. (ed.) 2012. Opposition Cooperation in the Arab World: Contentious Politics in Times of Change. Routledge.
Kraetzschmar, H. and E.M. Lahlali. 2012. ‘The State of e-Services Delivery in Kuwait: Challenges and Opportunities’ Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States Publication (LSE), pp. 1-41. Available at: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/research/resgroups/kuwait/documents/Hendrik%20Jan%20Kraetzschmar%20paper.pdf
Kraetzschmar, H. (ed.) 2011. ‘Mapping Opposition Cooperation in the Arab World: From Single-Issue Coalitions to Transnational Networks’, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 38/3, pp. 287-302.
Schwarzmantel J. and H. Kraetzschmar (eds) 2011. Democracy and Violence: Global Challenges and Local Debates. Routledge.
Cavatorta, F. & Kraetzschmar, H. 2010. ‘Ballots over Bullets: Islamist Groups, the State and Electoral Violence in Egypt and Morocco’ Democratization 17, 1, pp. 326-349.
Kraetzschmar, H.J. 2010. Electoral Rules, Voter Mobilization and the Islamist Landslide in the Saudi Municipal Elections of 2005. Contemporary Arab Affairs 3/4, pp. 485-502.
Kraetzschmar, H. Schwarzmantel, J. (eds.) 2010. ‘Special Issue: Democracy and Violence’, Democratization 17, 1.
Kraetzschmar H. 2010. ‘Opposition Cooperation in Electoral Autocracies: The United National Front for Change in Egypt’s 2005 Parliamentary Elections’, in Albrecht H. (ed.) Contentious Politics in the Middle East, University of Florida Press.
Contributed to: Dean, L. (ed.) The Middle East and North Africa 2008. Routledge (rewriting & updating of Egypt chapter).
Contributed to: Dean, L. (ed.) The Middle East and North Africa 2007. Routledge (rewriting & updating of Egypt chapter).
Kraetzschmar H. 2006. ‘The Politics of Electoral Reform in the Middle East and North Africa’, Journal of Democracy Review Vol. 21, Cairo, pp. 11 – 19 (Published in Arabic & English).
Kraetzschmar, H. & Pontes-Resende, M. 2005. ‘Parties of Power as Roadblocks to Democracy – the Ukraine and Egypt Compared’ in Emerson, M. (ed.) Democratisation in the European Neighbourhood, CEPS Brussels.
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