Kinan Jaeger

Kinan Jaeger (* 1966 in Damascus , Syria ) is a German political scientist , geographer and publicist .

After graduating from high school in 1985, Jaeger studied geography as well as political and Islamic studies at the universities in Bonn , Brisbane , Toronto and Cape Town from 1986 to 1991 . He then received his doctorate from 1992 to 1994 as part of a graduate scholarship from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation with the political scientists Manfred Funke and Hans-Adolf Jacobsen .

Since 1996 Jaeger has been teaching at the University of Bonn Institute for Political Science and Sociology on issues relating to the Middle East conflict and international security policy . Between 1999 and 2000 he also worked as a lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute in Berlin . He also appears regularly as an expert on radio and television . Jaeger's specialist research focuses primarily on topics relating to the politics and culture of Syria , Lebanon , Iran and Israel . He also deals with the development of Islam in Germany , as well as aspects of parliamentarianism , democracy research and German foreign policy .

Publications (selection)

• Syria. Between resignation and hope , Bonn 2013
• The Middle East Conflict. Documents, comments and opinions , together with Rolf Tophoven , Bonn 2011
• Revolution in the Arab world. Risks and opportunities. A strategic analysis , Bonn 2011
• Peace and Security in the Middle East. Chances and possibilities of Germany , ed. by Karl-Dietrich Bracher in Politics, History and Culture , Bonn 2009
• Security risks on Europe's doorstep. The crisis region of the Near and Middle East , Bonn 2005
• What now Palestine? , together with Rainer Zimmer-Winkel , with a foreword by Udo Steinbach , Trier 2002
• The Middle East Conflict in the Light of September 11 , Bonn 2001
• Squaring the triangle. German-Israeli relations and the Palestinians , with a foreword by Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski , Schwalbach 1997
• The significance of the Palestinian problem for German-Israeli relations , Bonn 1994
• The Lebanese in Sydney. Spatial structures and mobility , Bonn 1991

Web links

• Literature by and about Kinan Jaeger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal internet presence
• Profile on the website of the University of Bonn