André Bank
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | André Bank |
| GIVEN NAMES | André |
| FAMILY NAME | Bank |
| SIGNATURE | BANK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute for Global and Area Studies |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-9085-2897 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Opposition learning in the Middle East and North Africa
The article summarizes and discusses the key comparative findings of the special issue (SI) on opposition learning in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). First, it examines the MENA region’s authoritarian and hybrid institutional contexts in which opposition learning unfolds. Second, it thoroughly engages with the framework on the mechanisms of opposition learning (upgrading, isomorphism, internal, and external diffusion), the SI’s central i…
Forward to the Past? Regional Repercussions of the Gaza War
The Gaza war between Israel and Hamas marks the end of the long decade after the Arab uprisings. In this paper, we explore how the conflict has altered the regional political landscape in the Middle East, which bears similarities to the pre‐2011 dynamics but includes new elements. On the one hand, the war has taken the region “forward to the past” by revitalizing “Palestine” as a central issue, accentuating the so‐called Axis of Resistance, and i…
Disentangling Forced Migration Governance
In this paper, we study the question of who and what drives forced migration governance in origin, host, and transit states, drawing on empirical material from the contemporary Syrian and Libyan, and the historical Algerian displacement situations. These three cases are examples for different forced migration governance approaches, ranging from open-supportive (Algeria), to restrictive-selective (Syria) and laissez-faire (Libya). We identify thre…
Mena political science research a decade after the Arab uprisings
This introductory article to the Special Issue MENA Political Science Research a Decade after the Arab Uprisings: Facing the Facts on Tremulous Grounds takes stock of MENA political science research a decade after the Arab uprisings. Engaging with key contributions from social movement and protest studies, comparative politics, and International Relations, we discuss three overarching questions that we consider as particularly important today: Fi…
The governance of Syrian refugees in the Middle East
Fleeing war, repression, and economic breakdown in their home country, Syrians have become the largest group of refugees in the Middle East. Relative to their own populations, neighboring Jordan and Lebanon have hosted the most Syrians per capita. While both are small, middle-income, and resource-poor countries, the perception of their respective governance of Syrian refugees has been diametrically different: While the 2016 Jordan Compact has bee…
Covid-19 als Chance für den Frieden
Ende März 2020 rief UN-Generalsekretär Guterres angesichts der Bedrohung durch die Covid-19-Pandemie dazu auf, weltweit die Waffen ruhen zu lassen. Obwohl diese Initiative von 171 Regierungen begrüßt wurde, ist es nicht einmal kurzfristig zu einer umfassenden Gewaltreduktion in zentralen Konfliktgebieten gekommen. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie in zwei regional wie global bedeutsamen Konfliktländern, Kolum…
Comparative Area Studies and the Study of Middle East Politics after the Arab Uprisings
The Arab uprisings of 2011 led to the fall of several heads of state, triggered wars in three countries, and threatened the survival of all eight monarchies in the Middle East. In the field of Middle East studies, these processes have led to a fundamental questioning of preexisting theoretical assumptions and methodological approaches. A more self-critical and self-aware research program now exists that seeks to trace the different political traj…
Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation
The study of authoritarian diffusion and cooperation
This article outlines and discusses the central comparative findings on the role of interest versus ideology in the study of authoritarian diffusion and cooperation. It highlights the primacy of pragmatic interests in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a finding that holds in diverse cases in Eastern Central Europe, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Of particular importance here are negative findings that reflect the absence…
Long-term monarchical survival in the Middle East
The survival of eight monarchies during the "Arab Uprisings" has put centre stage the fundamental question about the durability of this subtype of authoritarian regime. Seen from a broader historical perspective, however, the idea that monarchies have an inherent advantage in retaining power is less evident: a number of authoritarian monarchies broke down and subsequently became republics (Egypt 1952, Iraq 1958, North Yemen 1962, Libya 1969, Iran…
The Ba'athist blackout? Selective goods provision and political violence in the Syrian civil war
Many authoritarian regimes selectively provide critical segments of the population with privileged access to goods and services, expecting political support in return. This article is interested in the effects of this regime strategy: Is violent opposition less likely to occur in subnational regions bound to the ruling elite through such patron-client networks? For its empirical analysis, the article makes use of crowdsourcing data on the number …
Durable, Yet Different
Over three years into the Arab Spring, the Middle East is characterized by a striking difference in durability between monarchies and republics. Beyond this difference, some significant gaps within the group of the eight Middle East monarchies have so far been overlooked. Drawing on the existing monarchy research, we first make the case that there were three distinct types of durable monarchies prior to the Arab Spring. Confronted with social and…
Parliamentary elections in Jordan, January 2013
The 'Ankara Moment
Around 2007 Turkey became a regional power in the Middle East, a status it has maintained at least until the outset of the Arab Revolt in 2011. To understand why Turkey only became a regional power under the Muslim akp government and why this happened at the specific point in time that it did, this article highlights the self-reinforcing dynamics between Turkey's domestic political-economic transformation in the first decade of this century and t…
S yrian R evolt F allout
Middle East PolicyVolume 19, Issue 3 p. 25-35 Syrian Revolt Fallout: End of the Resistance Axis? Erik Mohns, Erik Mohns PhD fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies at the University of Southern Denmark.Search for more papers by this authorAndré Bank, André Bank Research fellow with the Institute of Middle East Studies at GIGA, the German Institute of Global and Area Studies. *Search for more papers by this author Erik Mohns, Eri…
The New Arab Cold War
This article provides a conceptual lens for and a thick interpretation of the emergent regional constellation in the Middle East in the first decade of the 21st century. It starts out by challenging two prevalent claims about regional politics in the context of the 2006 Lebanon and 2008–09 Gaza Wars: Firstly, that regional politics is marked by a fundamental break from the ‘old Middle East’ and secondly, that it has become ‘post-Arab’ in the sens…
Bringing the Arab Regional Level Back in…—Jordan in the New Arab Cold War
Udgivelsesdato: 2010
Examining the ‘Post’ in Post-Democratization
Udgivelsesdato: 2010
Guest Editors' Note
Transnational conflicts and the politics of scalar networks
This article offers a conceptualisation of transnational conflicts between state and non-state actors. Theorists of globalisation and transnationalism have developed a number of approaches in order to rethink the roles of these actors in conditions of globality. Their reluctance, however, to develop middle-range concepts has left us with arguments that are unable to deal with the complexity of transnational conflicts. In the theoretical section w…
Arab Elites
The recent deaths of four long-term heads of state in the Arab world heralded important changes, as political power passed from one generation to the next. Shedding light on these changes, Arab Elites explores the attitudes and political agendas of the new leadership emerging throughout the region. A strong analytical framework informs the authors' discussion of elites in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian National Authorit…
The study of authoritarian diffusion and cooperation
This article outlines and discusses the central comparative findings on the role of interest versus ideology in the study of authoritarian diffusion and cooperation. It highlights the primacy of pragmatic interests in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a finding that holds in diverse cases in Eastern Central Europe, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Of particular importance here are negative findings that reflect the absence…
Long-term monarchical survival in the Middle East
The survival of eight monarchies during the "Arab Uprisings" has put centre stage the fundamental question about the durability of this subtype of authoritarian regime. Seen from a broader historical perspective, however, the idea that monarchies have an inherent advantage in retaining power is less evident: a number of authoritarian monarchies broke down and subsequently became republics (Egypt 1952, Iraq 1958, North Yemen 1962, Libya 1969, Iran…
The 'Ankara Moment
Around 2007 Turkey became a regional power in the Middle East, a status it has maintained at least until the outset of the Arab Revolt in 2011. To understand why Turkey only became a regional power under the Muslim akp government and why this happened at the specific point in time that it did, this article highlights the self-reinforcing dynamics between Turkey's domestic political-economic transformation in the first decade of this century and t…
Examining the ‘Post’ in Post-Democratization
Udgivelsesdato: 2010
The Ba'athist blackout? Selective goods provision and political violence in the Syrian civil war
Many authoritarian regimes selectively provide critical segments of the population with privileged access to goods and services, expecting political support in return. This article is interested in the effects of this regime strategy: Is violent opposition less likely to occur in subnational regions bound to the ruling elite through such patron-client networks? For its empirical analysis, the article makes use of crowdsourcing data on the number …
The New Arab Cold War
This article provides a conceptual lens for and a thick interpretation of the emergent regional constellation in the Middle East in the first decade of the 21st century. It starts out by challenging two prevalent claims about regional politics in the context of the 2006 Lebanon and 2008–09 Gaza Wars: Firstly, that regional politics is marked by a fundamental break from the ‘old Middle East’ and secondly, that it has become ‘post-Arab’ in the sens…
Mena political science research a decade after the Arab uprisings
This introductory article to the Special Issue MENA Political Science Research a Decade after the Arab Uprisings: Facing the Facts on Tremulous Grounds takes stock of MENA political science research a decade after the Arab uprisings. Engaging with key contributions from social movement and protest studies, comparative politics, and International Relations, we discuss three overarching questions that we consider as particularly important today: Fi…
S yrian R evolt F allout
Middle East PolicyVolume 19, Issue 3 p. 25-35 Syrian Revolt Fallout: End of the Resistance Axis? Erik Mohns, Erik Mohns PhD fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies at the University of Southern Denmark.Search for more papers by this authorAndré Bank, André Bank Research fellow with the Institute of Middle East Studies at GIGA, the German Institute of Global and Area Studies. *Search for more papers by this author Erik Mohns, Eri…
Forward to the Past? Regional Repercussions of the Gaza War
The Gaza war between Israel and Hamas marks the end of the long decade after the Arab uprisings. In this paper, we explore how the conflict has altered the regional political landscape in the Middle East, which bears similarities to the pre‐2011 dynamics but includes new elements. On the one hand, the war has taken the region “forward to the past” by revitalizing “Palestine” as a central issue, accentuating the so‐called Axis of Resistance, and i…
Disentangling Forced Migration Governance
In this paper, we study the question of who and what drives forced migration governance in origin, host, and transit states, drawing on empirical material from the contemporary Syrian and Libyan, and the historical Algerian displacement situations. These three cases are examples for different forced migration governance approaches, ranging from open-supportive (Algeria), to restrictive-selective (Syria) and laissez-faire (Libya). We identify thre…
The governance of Syrian refugees in the Middle East
Fleeing war, repression, and economic breakdown in their home country, Syrians have become the largest group of refugees in the Middle East. Relative to their own populations, neighboring Jordan and Lebanon have hosted the most Syrians per capita. While both are small, middle-income, and resource-poor countries, the perception of their respective governance of Syrian refugees has been diametrically different: While the 2016 Jordan Compact has bee…
Parliamentary elections in Jordan, January 2013
Guest Editors' Note
Transnational conflicts and the politics of scalar networks
This article offers a conceptualisation of transnational conflicts between state and non-state actors. Theorists of globalisation and transnationalism have developed a number of approaches in order to rethink the roles of these actors in conditions of globality. Their reluctance, however, to develop middle-range concepts has left us with arguments that are unable to deal with the complexity of transnational conflicts. In the theoretical section w…
Arab Elites
The recent deaths of four long-term heads of state in the Arab world heralded important changes, as political power passed from one generation to the next. Shedding light on these changes, Arab Elites explores the attitudes and political agendas of the new leadership emerging throughout the region. A strong analytical framework informs the authors' discussion of elites in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian National Authorit…
Transnational conflicts and the politics of scalar networks
This article offers a conceptualisation of transnational conflicts between state and non-state actors. Theorists of globalisation and transnationalism have developed a number of approaches in order to rethink the roles of these actors in conditions of globality. Their reluctance, however, to develop middle-range concepts has left us with arguments that are unable to deal with the complexity of transnational conflicts. In the theoretical section w…
Bringing the Arab Regional Level Back in…—Jordan in the New Arab Cold War
Udgivelsesdato: 2010
Examining the ‘Post’ in Post-Democratization
Udgivelsesdato: 2010
Guest Editors' Note
S yrian R evolt F allout
Middle East PolicyVolume 19, Issue 3 p. 25-35 Syrian Revolt Fallout: End of the Resistance Axis? Erik Mohns, Erik Mohns PhD fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies at the University of Southern Denmark.Search for more papers by this authorAndré Bank, André Bank Research fellow with the Institute of Middle East Studies at GIGA, the German Institute of Global and Area Studies. *Search for more papers by this author Erik Mohns, Eri…
The New Arab Cold War
This article provides a conceptual lens for and a thick interpretation of the emergent regional constellation in the Middle East in the first decade of the 21st century. It starts out by challenging two prevalent claims about regional politics in the context of the 2006 Lebanon and 2008–09 Gaza Wars: Firstly, that regional politics is marked by a fundamental break from the ‘old Middle East’ and secondly, that it has become ‘post-Arab’ in the sens…
The 'Ankara Moment
Around 2007 Turkey became a regional power in the Middle East, a status it has maintained at least until the outset of the Arab Revolt in 2011. To understand why Turkey only became a regional power under the Muslim akp government and why this happened at the specific point in time that it did, this article highlights the self-reinforcing dynamics between Turkey's domestic political-economic transformation in the first decade of this century and t…
Durable, Yet Different
Over three years into the Arab Spring, the Middle East is characterized by a striking difference in durability between monarchies and republics. Beyond this difference, some significant gaps within the group of the eight Middle East monarchies have so far been overlooked. Drawing on the existing monarchy research, we first make the case that there were three distinct types of durable monarchies prior to the Arab Spring. Confronted with social and…
Parliamentary elections in Jordan, January 2013
Long-term monarchical survival in the Middle East
The survival of eight monarchies during the "Arab Uprisings" has put centre stage the fundamental question about the durability of this subtype of authoritarian regime. Seen from a broader historical perspective, however, the idea that monarchies have an inherent advantage in retaining power is less evident: a number of authoritarian monarchies broke down and subsequently became republics (Egypt 1952, Iraq 1958, North Yemen 1962, Libya 1969, Iran…
The Ba'athist blackout? Selective goods provision and political violence in the Syrian civil war
Many authoritarian regimes selectively provide critical segments of the population with privileged access to goods and services, expecting political support in return. This article is interested in the effects of this regime strategy: Is violent opposition less likely to occur in subnational regions bound to the ruling elite through such patron-client networks? For its empirical analysis, the article makes use of crowdsourcing data on the number …
The study of authoritarian diffusion and cooperation
This article outlines and discusses the central comparative findings on the role of interest versus ideology in the study of authoritarian diffusion and cooperation. It highlights the primacy of pragmatic interests in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a finding that holds in diverse cases in Eastern Central Europe, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Of particular importance here are negative findings that reflect the absence…
Comparative Area Studies and the Study of Middle East Politics after the Arab Uprisings
The Arab uprisings of 2011 led to the fall of several heads of state, triggered wars in three countries, and threatened the survival of all eight monarchies in the Middle East. In the field of Middle East studies, these processes have led to a fundamental questioning of preexisting theoretical assumptions and methodological approaches. A more self-critical and self-aware research program now exists that seeks to trace the different political traj…
Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation
Covid-19 als Chance für den Frieden
Ende März 2020 rief UN-Generalsekretär Guterres angesichts der Bedrohung durch die Covid-19-Pandemie dazu auf, weltweit die Waffen ruhen zu lassen. Obwohl diese Initiative von 171 Regierungen begrüßt wurde, ist es nicht einmal kurzfristig zu einer umfassenden Gewaltreduktion in zentralen Konfliktgebieten gekommen. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie in zwei regional wie global bedeutsamen Konfliktländern, Kolum…
Mena political science research a decade after the Arab uprisings
This introductory article to the Special Issue MENA Political Science Research a Decade after the Arab Uprisings: Facing the Facts on Tremulous Grounds takes stock of MENA political science research a decade after the Arab uprisings. Engaging with key contributions from social movement and protest studies, comparative politics, and International Relations, we discuss three overarching questions that we consider as particularly important today: Fi…
The governance of Syrian refugees in the Middle East
Fleeing war, repression, and economic breakdown in their home country, Syrians have become the largest group of refugees in the Middle East. Relative to their own populations, neighboring Jordan and Lebanon have hosted the most Syrians per capita. While both are small, middle-income, and resource-poor countries, the perception of their respective governance of Syrian refugees has been diametrically different: While the 2016 Jordan Compact has bee…
Forward to the Past? Regional Repercussions of the Gaza War
The Gaza war between Israel and Hamas marks the end of the long decade after the Arab uprisings. In this paper, we explore how the conflict has altered the regional political landscape in the Middle East, which bears similarities to the pre‐2011 dynamics but includes new elements. On the one hand, the war has taken the region “forward to the past” by revitalizing “Palestine” as a central issue, accentuating the so‐called Axis of Resistance, and i…
Disentangling Forced Migration Governance
In this paper, we study the question of who and what drives forced migration governance in origin, host, and transit states, drawing on empirical material from the contemporary Syrian and Libyan, and the historical Algerian displacement situations. These three cases are examples for different forced migration governance approaches, ranging from open-supportive (Algeria), to restrictive-selective (Syria) and laissez-faire (Libya). We identify thre…
Opposition learning in the Middle East and North Africa
The article summarizes and discusses the key comparative findings of the special issue (SI) on opposition learning in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). First, it examines the MENA region’s authoritarian and hybrid institutional contexts in which opposition learning unfolds. Second, it thoroughly engages with the framework on the mechanisms of opposition learning (upgrading, isomorphism, internal, and external diffusion), the SI’s central i…
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