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| Born | 8 February 1968 Heilbronn, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
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Matthias Basedau (born February 8,1968 in Heilbronn) is a German political scientist and director of the GIGA Institute for African Studies in Hamburg.
Basedau studied political science,sociology and psychology at the University of Heidelberg. After the Doctorate in Heidelberg (2001,Dr. phil.) he became aresearch fellow at the GIGA Institute for African Studies in 2002. There he was 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). In 2014 he was a visiting professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Since 2018 he has been the director of the GIGA Institute for African Studies in Hamburg. [1]
Matthias Basedau's main research interests are in the field of Peace and conflict studies (security). These include domestic violent conflicts and conflict resolution,particularly determinants such as ethnicity,strategic natural resources,political institutions and religion as well as natural disasters and population growth. In doing so,he is guided by comparative political science,for example,research on political parties,party systems and democratization;institutional engineering,regime change in Sub-Saharan Africa. Methodologically,he uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods,qualitative Small-N comparisons,Comparative Area Studies. His regional expertise is focused on Sub-Saharan Africa and the Global South,in particular West Africa,Sahel and Botswana.
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