Muriel Asseburg Editor

Muriel Asseburg is a Senior Fellow in the Middle East and Africa Division of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Her research focuses on the Arab-Israeli conflict and questions of state building, political reform and political Islam in the Arab world as well as German, European and US Middle East policies. She recently published Protest, Revolt and Regime Change in the Arab World. Actors, Challenges, Implications and Policy Options (2012). Heiko Wimmen has been a researcher with Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) since 2009 with a special focus on Lebanon and Syria. In addition, he pursues a PhD project on political activism and social mobilization in divided societies of the Middle East and the Balkans. Recent publications include Democratic Transition in the Middle East. Unmaking power (2012) and Emerging Powers and the Middle East (2010).