Bert Hoffmann

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Bert Hoffmann (born February 6, 1966 in Berlin ) is a German political scientist at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg . He heads the GIGA's Berlin office and is honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin .

Bert Hoffmann, 2018

academic career

Bert Hoffmann studied political science at the Free University of Berlin , where he also did his doctorate with a dissertation on "The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development". From 1993 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Ibero America Customers in Hamburg (today's name: GIGA Institute for Latin America Studies), from 1998 to 2003 at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin , and since 2003 again at the GIGA in Hamburg. In 2007 he was a visiting scholar at Nuffield College , Oxford University , and a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin within the framework of the SFB 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood”. At the GIGA, Hoffmann led the conversion of the institute's specialist journals to open access journals. From 2011 to 2014 he was acting director of the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies. In 2014 he was appointed honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin. He heads the GIGA's Berlin office.

Hoffmann researches political and social developments in Latin America . He has written political studies about Cuba as well as numerous essays on political, economic and social developments. In it, he analyzes, among other things, the replacement of Fidel Castro at the head of the state in 2006 as a transition from "charismatic socialism" to "bureaucratic socialism" under his successor and brother Raúl Castro , which promises gradual economic reforms and more administrative efficiency. In a current study on the prospects for German-Cuban relations in culture and education, Hoffmann emphasizes the diversity of social actors who have established a dense network of contacts and cooperation with the island from Germany, even if state cooperation is still difficult As demonstrated by Cuba's rejection of the establishment of a Goethe Institute in Havana in 2016 . A current research project examines the formation of new social inequalities on the island.

Hoffmann's further research focuses are the political implications of digital media; the conceptual debate on Comparative Area Studies; and the changing relationships between states and their citizens who have emigrated abroad. A research project led by him has compared the emigrant policies of all Latin American countries. Hoffmann is a member of the advisory boards of the scientific journals European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Asian Journal of Latin American Studies. From 1993 to 2004 he was co-editor of the yearbook Latin America Analyzes and Reports. He was an adviser to the Institut des Amériques (Paris).

Publications

Books

  • Havana. In the heart of Cuba (Photos: Sven Creutzmann). Verlag Frederking and Thaler, Munich 2019, 320 pp. ISBN 9783954162864
  • Emigrant Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean (with Luicy Pedroza and Pau Palop). Santiago de Chile: FLASCO Chile 2016 ISBN 9789562052573 full text as PDF
  • Change and rapprochement: Perspectives of German-Cuban relations in culture and education . Stuttgart: Institute for Foreign Relations 2016; ISBN 9783921970508 PDF
  • Cuba . Munich: CH Beck, 3rd, revised. 2009 edition; ISBN 9783406447877
  • Debating Cuban Exceptionalism (together with Laurence Whitehead). New York / London: Palgrave, 2007; ISBN 9781403980755
  • Economic reforms in Cuba. Contours of a debate ; Frankfurt / M .: Vervuert (series of publications by the Institute for Ibero America Customer Volume 38) 1994 (2nd edition 1996); ISBN 9783893542383
  • Cuba. Apertura y reforma económica. Perfil de un debate . Caracas: Nueva Sociedad 1995; ISBN 9789803170738
  • The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development. Challenges in Contrasting Regimes with Case Studies of Costa Rica and Cuba . New York: Routledge, 323p., 2004; ISBN 9780415650977
  • Internet and Politics in Latin America. Regulation and use of new information and communication technologies in the context of political and economic transformations (together with Roman Herzog and Markus Schulz). Frankfurt / M .: Vervuert; 2002, approx. 500 pages; ISBN 9783893546022
  • Yearbook Latin America Analyzes and Reports , Volume 17-28 (1993-2004), Horlemann Verlag, from Volume 24 Westphalian Steamboat Overview

Articles (selection)

  • When Racial Inequalities Return: Assessing the Restratification of Cuban Society 60 Years After Revolution (with Katrin Hansing); in: Latin American Politics and Society vol. 62, no.2 (summer 2020), p. 29–52. (Full text Open Access)
  • Assessing the Political and Social Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis in Latin America (with Merike Blofield and Mariana Llanos); GIGA Focus Latin America | Number 3 | April 2020 full text
  • Bureaucratic socialism in reform mode: the changing politics of Cuba's post-Fidel era , in: Third World Quarterly, 37, 9 (2016), 1730–1744
  • Communicating Authoritarian Elite Cohesion (with Andreas Schedler), in: Democratization, 23, 1 (2016), 93–117
  • The international dimension of authoritarian regime legitimation: insights from the Cuban case , in: Journal of International Relations and Development, 18 (2015), 556-574
  • Latin America and Beyond: The Case for Comparative Area Studies , in: European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 100, (2015), 111–120
  • What do they know of England who only England know? Comparative regional research as a key competence in an intertwined world (together with Barbara Fritz), in: Markus Hochmüller et al. (ed.), Politics in Interwoven Spaces / Los espacios entrelazados de lo político. Festschrift for Marianne Braig , Berlin: Verlag Walter Frey / edition tranvía 2013, p. 156-170 ISBN 9783938944790
  • Area Studies (with Andreas Mehler ) in: Bertrand Badie / Dirk Berg-Schlosser / Leonardo Morlino (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Political Science, Newbury: Sage, 86–89 ISBN 9781412959636
  • Cuba: on the way to market socialism? , GIGA Focus Latin America, 09/2010, Hamburg: GIGA full text
  • Turning the Symbol Around: Returning Guantánamo Bay to Cuba , in: Abraham F. Lowenthal / Theodore Piccone / Laurence Whitehead (eds.), The Obama Administration and the Americas. Agenda for Change, Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 2009, p. 136-144; ISBN 9780815703099
  • Civil Society 2.0 ?: How the Internet Changes State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Cuba , GIGA Working Paper, No. 156, January 2011, Hamburg: GIGA full text
  • Bringing Hirschman Back In: ​​“Exit”, “Voice”, and “Loyalty” in the Politics of Transnational Migration , in: The Latin Americanist, 54 (2010) 2, p. 57-73
  • Charismatic Authority and Leadership Change: Lessons from Cuba's Post-Fidel Succession , in: International Political Science Review, 30 (2009) 3, p. 229-248
  • Why Reform Fails: The 'Politics of Policies' in Costa Rican Telecommunications Liberalization , in: European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 84 (2008) p. 3-19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFG funds GIGA Journal Family ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / open-access.net
  2. ↑ Bert Hoffmann appointed honorary professor ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lai.fu-berlin.de
  3. ↑ GIGA Berlin Office
  4. ↑ Cuba. Beck'sche series "Lander", Munich: CH Beck, 3rd edition 2009 ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chbeck.de
  5. ^ Bureaucratic socialism in reform mode: the changing politics of Cuba's post-Fidel era; Third World Quarterly, 37, 2016, 9, 1730-1744
  6. ↑ Change through rapprochement. Perspectives of German-Cuban relations in culture and education; ifa Edition Culture and Foreign Policy, 2016
  7. ↑ DeutschlandRadio Kultur, September 1, 2016: The issue of the Goethe-Institut, the German-Cuban cultural agreement threatens to fail
  8. ^ The Return of Race-based Inequalities in Contemporary Cuba: Analyzing the Impact of Past Migration and Current Reforms | GIGA. Retrieved June 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ DFG project on Emigrant Policies
  10. ↑ European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (ERLACS)
  11. ^ Asian Journal of Latin American Studies
  12. ^ Yearbook Latin America Analyzes and Reports
  13. ↑ Institut des Amériques
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Bert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin