Dr Regine Schwab
ResearcherResearch Department:
Transnational Politics
Research Group Terrorism
Contact
E-Mail: schwab@prif.orgTwitter: @reginesonja
CV
| since 2020 | Postdoctoral Researcher at PRIF |
| 2016–2020 | PhD candidate, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany |
| Research Group "How 'Terrorists' Learn - Re-considering the tactical and strategic transformation of violent movements and organisations" | |
| 2017 | Lecturer at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 2015–2016 | Ph.D. Fellow, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), Germany |
| Field A: Global Governance and Regional Integration | |
| 2015 | Bucerius Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Trajectories of Change) |
| 2012–2014 | Master of Arts in Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
| 2008–2012 | Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin |
| 2007–2010 | Bachelor of Arts in Communication Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin |
Expertise
Dr Regine Schwab is working on the following issues:
- Islamist and jihadist groups
- Rebel governance
- Syria
- Intrastate conflicts
- Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
- Political violence and terrorism (with focus on intrastate conflicts)
- Mixed Methods
Publications
- Re-examining the State/Non-state Binary in the Study of (Civil) War | 2023
Schwab, Regine / Pfeifer, Hanna (2023): Re-examining the State/Non-state Binary in the Study of (Civil) War, in: Civil Wars, 25, 426–449, DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2254654.
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- The bombing of hospitals and local violence dynamics in civil wars: Evidence from Syria | 2023
Schwab, Regine / Krause, Werner / Massoud, Samer (2023): The bombing of hospitals and local violence dynamics in civil wars: Evidence from Syria, in: Households in Conflict Network, https://hicn.org/working-paper/403/.
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- Competitive Rebel Governance in Syria | 2023
Schwab, Regine (2023): Competitive Rebel Governance in Syria, in: Fraihat, Ibrahim; Alijla, Abdalhadi (ed.), Rebel Governance in the Middle East, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 117-150.
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- The weaponization of civilian infrastructure | 2023
Schwab, Regine (2023): The weaponization of civilian infrastructure, CPD Policy Blog, 5.7.2023.
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- Arab States’ Incentives Towards (not) Normalizing Relations with Syria – Islamists and Drug Trafficking? | 2023
Karahamad, Mustafa / Schwab, Regine (2023): Arab States’ Incentives Towards (not) Normalizing Relations with Syria – Islamists and Drug Trafficking?, PRIF Blog, 16.5.2023.
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- The Externalization of EU Borders | 2023
Horváth, Sarah / Schwab, Regine (2023): The Externalization of EU Borders. The Case of Agadez, PRIF Spotlight 4/2023, Frankfurt/M, DOI: 10.48809/prifspot2304.
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- Eine politische Naturkatastrophe in Nordwestsyrien – das Erdbeben und das Versagen der internationalen Gemeinschaft | 2023
Schwab, Regine (2023): Eine politische Naturkatastrophe in Nordwestsyrien – das Erdbeben und das Versagen der internationalen Gemeinschaft, PRIF Blog, 16.2.2023.
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- Politicising the Rebel Governance Paradigm | 2023
Schwab, Regine / Pfeifer, Hanna (eds), (2023): Politicising the Rebel Governance Paradigm, (Special Issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 34), https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fswi20/34/1?nav=tocList.
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- Same same but different? Ideological differentiation and intra-jihadist competition in the Syrian civil war | 2023
Schwab, Regine (2023): Same same but different? Ideological differentiation and intra-jihadist competition in the Syrian civil war, in: Journal of Global Security Studies, 1-20, DOI: 10.1093/jogss/ogac045.
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- Politicising the Rebel Governance Paradigm. Critical Appraisal and Expansion of a Research Agenda | 2023
Pfeifer, Hanna / Schwab, Regine (2023): Politicising the Rebel Governance Paradigm. Critical Appraisal and Expansion of a Research Agenda. Introduction to the Special Issue, in: Small Wars and Insurgencies, 34:1, 1–23, DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2022.2144000.
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- Transnationale Gewaltordnungen und Konflikte | 2022
Ketzmerick, Maria / Salehi, Mariam / Schwab, Regine (2022): Transnationale Gewaltordnungen und Konflikte. Workshop AK Gewaltordnungen DVPW, Universität Bayreuth, 3.-4. März 2022, in: Wissenschaft und Frieden, 40:2, 54–55.
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- Who owns the law?: Logics of Insurgent Courts in the Syrian War (2012-2017) | 2022
Schwab, Regine / Massoud, Samer (2022): Who owns the law?: Logics of Insurgent Courts in the Syrian War (2012-2017), in: Gani, Jasmine K./Hinnebusch, Raymond (eds), Actors and Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict's Middle Phase: Between Contentious Politics, Militarization and Regime Resilience, London: Routledge, 164–181, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003254904.
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- Blick zurück nach vorn: Was droht bei einer Belagerung ukrainischer Städte? | 2022
Gromes, Thorsten / Schwab, Regine / Karahamad, Mustafa (2022): Blick zurück nach vorn: Was droht bei einer Belagerung ukrainischer Städte?, PRIF BLOG, 4.3.2022.
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- Escalate or Negotiate? Constraint and Rebel Strategic Choices Towards Rivals in the Syrian Civil War | 2021
Schwab, Regine (2021): Escalate or Negotiate? Constraint and Rebel Strategic Choices Towards Rivals in the Syrian Civil War, in: Terrorism and Political Violence, 1–20, DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2021.1998007.
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- Withdrawal of NATO troops – Comeback of the Taliban? | 2021
Schwab, Regine (2021): Withdrawal of NATO troops – Comeback of the Taliban?, PRIF Blog, 22.6.2021.
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- Wechselnde Herrschaft in Postkonfliktkontexten. Hessische Stiftung für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung | 2021
Schwab, Regine / Pfeifer, Hanna (2021): Wechselnde Herrschaft in Postkonfliktkontexten. Hessische Stiftung für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Wissenschaft und Frieden, 10.6.2021.
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- Wütende Kämpfe | 2021
Röleke, Juliane / Schwab, Regine (2021): Wütende Kämpfe. Über den Dokumentarfilm „As I want“, Gewalt gegen Frauen in Ägypten und die Möglichkeiten politischer Selbstorganisation, zeitgeschichte online, 9.6.2021.
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- Why not to deport suspected ‘terrorists’ to Syria: a security perspective | 2021
Karahamad, Mustafa / Schwab, Regine (2021): Why not to deport suspected ‘terrorists’ to Syria: a security perspective, PRIF Blog, 20.1.2021.
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- Who are these “Islamists” everyone talks about?! Why academic struggles over words matter | 2020
Pfeifer, Hanna / Schwab, Regine / Süß, Clara-Auguste (2020): Who are these “Islamists” everyone talks about?! Why academic struggles over words matter, PRIF Blog, 3.12.2020.
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- Krieg der Bilder – wie das syrische Regime den Bürgerkrieg im Fernsehen weiterführt | 2020
Schwab, Regine (2020): Krieg der Bilder – wie das syrische Regime den Bürgerkrieg im Fernsehen weiterführt, PRIF Blog, 25.6.2020.
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- Ein zweischneidiges Schwert | 2020
Schwab, Regine (2020): Ein zweischneidiges Schwert. Rezension zu "The Internet and Political Protest in Autocracies" von Nils B. Weidmann und Espen Geelmuyden Rød, Soziopolis, 18.3.2020.
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- Insurgent courts in civil wars: the three pathways of (trans)formation in today’s Syria (2012–2017) | 2018
Schwab, Regine (2018): Insurgent courts in civil wars: the three pathways of (trans)formation in today’s Syria (2012–2017), in: Small Wars & Insurgencies, 29:4, 801–826, DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2018.1497290.
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- Globalizing Elites from the ‘Global South’: Elites in Brazil and India | 2015
Schneickert, Christian / Kroneder, Andreas / Schwab, Regine (2015): Globalizing Elites from the ‘Global South’: Elites in Brazil and India, in: Lenger, Alexander/Schumacher, Florian (eds), Understanding the Dynamics of Global Inequality, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 229–243, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-44766-6_12.
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- De-Constitutionalising the Egyptian Constitution | 2014
Schwab, Regine (2014): De-Constitutionalising the Egyptian Constitution, in: Belakhdar, Naoual /Eickhof, Ilka/el Khawaga, Abla/el Khawaga, Ola/Hamada, Amal/Harders, Cilja/Sandri, Serena (eds), Arab Revolutions and Beyond: Change and Persistence. Proceedings of the International Conference, Tunis, 12-13 November 2013, Berlin: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin, 179–192, https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/(...).
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