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Dr. Miriam M. M. Müller

Research Focus:  International Relations & Contemporary History of the Middle East; political and religious Ideologies; Political Violence; Insurgencies; German history and the Cold War

Dr. Miriam M. M. Müller (Joint PhD) is a political scientist by trade and is striving for critical and truly interdisciplinary and research: International Relations, History, Sociology, Law, Post-colonial Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Studies complement her political science perspective. She received her doctorate jointly from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and the University of Victoria, Canada, in Political Science and International Relations. Her interdisciplinary dissertation on East German Foreign Policy in Southern Yemen focuses on the role of Marxism-Leninism regarding “Socialist state- and nation-building” in the Global South during the Cold War. Specialized in the politics of the Middle East, she is concerned with religious and political ideologies, statehood, international security and foreign policy. Her current research project at the Hamburg Institute of Social Research explores the role of religion, violence and identity for the establishment and consolidation of governance of the so-called “Islamic State” in Iraq and Syria.

contact: miriam.mueller@daspoliticum.de