Matthias Basedau

Matthias Basedau (born February 8, 1968 in Heilbronn ) is a German political scientist.

Life

He studied political science, sociology and psychology at the University of Heidelberg . After receiving his doctorate in Heidelberg in 2001 as Dr. phil. Since 2002 he has been a research assistant at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies for African Studies, responsible for Southern Africa (especially Botswana), West Africa and the Sahel (especially Mali, Niger, Chad). Since 2013 he has been teaching as a professor at the University of Hamburg (§ 17 Professorship). 2014 taught as a visiting professor at the Institute for Peace Research . Since 2018 he has been director of the GIGA Institute for African Studies.

Conditions for the Success of Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa. A systematic comparison of selected countries . Opladen 2003, ISBN 3-8100-3820-2 .
as editor with Andreas Mehler : Resource politics in sub-Saharan Africa . Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-928049-91-7 .
as editor with Hanspeter Mattes and Anika Oettler : Multiple uncertainty. Findings from Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America . Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-926953-66-7 . (Writings of the German Overseas Institute Hamburg; No. 66)
as editor with Robert Kappel : Power source petroleum. The foreign, domestic and economic policy of petroleum states . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 3-8329-6892-X .