Glawion, Dr. Tim
Tim Glawion is co-Editor in Chief of Africa Spectrum, a senior researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute and research associate at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies. He is the author of The Security Arena in Africa: Local Order-Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland and South Sudan (Cambridge University Press 2020) and numerous articles on hybrid orders, local security governance, fragile states, and qualitative methodology. His current research focuses on security paradoxes and the monopoly on the use of force in Lebanon and the Central African Republic.
2014 - 2018 | University of Freiburg and GIGA, Doctorate – Political Science: Security Arena – Local Order Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland and South Sudan |
2012 - 2013 | King’s College London, MA – Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies |
2009 - 2012 | University of Heidelberg, BA – Political Science |
10/2023 - | Senior researcher, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg |
2022 - | co-Editor in Chief of Africa Spectrum |
2020 - 09/2023 | Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs; PI "The monopoly on the use of force and paradoxes of security – discrepancies between objective and subjective security in the Central African Republic and Lebanon" |
2019 | Postdoctoral research consultant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute und Cordaid, among others |
2018 | Université Quisqueya, Haiti: DAAD Post-Doctoral Research Fellow |
2014 - 2018 | Doctoral Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs, Berlin, Germany; Member of Research Centre (SFB) 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” |
2015 & 2016 | University of Hargeisa, Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies Hargeisa, Somaliland: Guest Lecturer & Supervisor |
Memberships:
- Africa Spectrum, Editor in Chief, since 2022
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Association for African Studies in Germany, Member of the central committee, since 2022
Ongoing projects:
The Monopoly on the Use of Force and Paradoxes of Security – Discrepancies between Objective and Subjective Security in the Central African Republic and Lebanon (01/2020 – 02/2024, DFG)
Rebellion, Elections and the Pandemic in the Central African Republic: COVID-19 and its Impact on Deep-seated Patterns of Governance (10/2022 – 02/2024, DFG)
Completed projects:
Education (In)Security in the Central African Republic (2018, KMF)
Governing People's Safety in Areas of Extremely Limited Statehood: South Sudan and the Central African Republic (2014-2017, DFG)
Monographs:
Glawion, T. (2020). The Security Arena in Africa: Local Order-Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108623629
- Gero-Erdmann-Award for Comparative Area Studies 2022
- Aquila Ascendens Young Scientists Award for Security Policy 2021 (2nd place)
- Arnold-Bergstraesser-Award 2019
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Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics Vol. 19(3), Journal of Modern African Studies Vol. 60(2), Africa Vol. 91(2), ZfVP Vol. 16(1-3), Les Champs de Mars Vol. 35(2), Connections (26/6/21), Annuaire Français de Relations Internationales Vol. 22, African Journal of Current Research Vol. 1(1)
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Glawion, T. (2023). Cross-case patterns of security production in hybrid political orders: their shapes, ordering practices, and paradoxical outcomes. Peacebuilding, 11(2), 169–184. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2022.2079246
de Vries, L., & Glawion, T. (2023). Studying insecurity from relative safety — Dealing with methodological blind spots. Qualitative Research, 23(4), 883–899. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211061061
Glawion, T., & Le Noan, A.-C. (2023). Rebel governance or governance in rebel territory? Extraction and services in Ndélé, Central African republic. Small Wars & Insurgencies, 34(1), 24–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2022.2137282
Glawion, T., de Vries, L., & Mehler, A. (2019). Handle with Care! A Qualitative Comparison of the Fragile States Index’s Bottom Three Countries: Central African Republic, Somalia and South Sudan. Development and Change, 50(2), 277–300. https://doi.org/doi:10.1111/dech.12417
Glawion, T., & de Vries, L. (2018). Ruptures revoked: why the Central African Republic’s unprecedented crisis has not altered deep-seated patterns of governance. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 56(3), 421–442. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X18000307
Glawion, T. (2013). Conflict, Mediation, and the African State: How Foreign Support and Democracy Lead to Strong Political Order. African Security, 6(1), 38–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2013.759476
Select other publications:
Glawion, Tim (18/5/2022) 'Wacklige Partnerschaft: Die Zentralafrikanische Republik ist mehr als nur geopolitischer Nebenschauplatz. Europa muss sich als ernsthafte Alternative zu Russland anbieten', IPG-Journal, https://www.ipg-journal.de/regionen/afrika/artikel/wacklige-partnerschaft-5944/.
Glawion, Tim (6/9/2021) 'What it will take to end civil war in the Central African Republic', The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/what-it-will-take-to-end-civil-war-in-the-central-african-republic-166041. (republished in The Africa Report and several other journals).
Glawion, Tim and Fisher, Jonathan (2021) 'Critical dialogue: East Africa After Liberation: Conflict, Security and the State Since the 1980s By Jonathan Fisher (Cambridge University Press, 2020); The Security Arena in Africa: Local Order-Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan By Tim Glawion (Cambridge University Press, 2020)', Perspectives on Politics, 19(3): 947-951.
Glawion, Tim (27/4/2020) 'State Authority Restoration in the Central African Republic: The Striking Gap Between Its Past, Its Potential, and People’s Expectations', Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Online.
Glawion, Tim, van der Lijn, Jair and de Zwaan, Nikki (2019) 'Securing Legitimate Stability in CAR: External Assumptions and Local Perspectives', SIPRI policy study, (September), 20 pages.
van der Lijn, Jair, Glawion, Tim and de Zwaan, Nikki (2019) 'Towards Legitimate Stability in CAR and the DRC: External Assumptions and Local Perspectives', SIPRI policy report, (September), 28 pages.
Hoebeke, Hans, van der Lijn, Jair, Glawion, Tim and de Zwaan, Nikki (2019) 'Securing Legitimate Stability in the DRC: External Assumptions and Local Perspectives', SIPRI policy report, (September), 24 pages.
Glawion, Tim (2018) 'Revolts in Central Africa: Protests, Politics, and Ways Forward', GIGA Focus Africa, (3), 12 pages.
Glawion, Tim (2018) 'Krieg oder Frieden als Frage der Perspektive: Die Realität einer Rebellenstadt zeigt dem Weltfriedensindex seine Grenzen auf', Zur Sache BW, 34(2): 30-3.
Le Noan, Anne-Clémence and Glawion, Tim (2018) 'Education Nationale En Territoire Rebelle: Le Cas Du Lycée De Ndélé En République Centrafricaine' / [National Education In Rebel Territory: The Case of Ndélé High School in the Central African Republic], ABI Working Paper, (10).
de Vries, Lotje and Glawion, Tim (2015) 'Speculating on Crisis: The Progressive Disintegration of the Central African Republic’s Political Economy', Clingendael CRU Report, (October), 63 pages: https://www.clingendael.org/pub/2015/speculating_on_crisis/.
Confidential policy reports:
Glawion, Tim (2022) 'Central African Republic (CAR): Strategy- and portfolio-informing resilience, peace and conflict analysis', for the German Ministry of Cooperation and Development, 76 pages.
Glawion, Tim (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022). 'Central African Republic: A Political Economy Brief', for the German Ministry of Cooperation and Development, 25 pages.
Glawion, Tim (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022). 'Early warning report on the Central African Republic', for the German Ministry of Cooperation and Development, 15 pages each.
Glawion, Tim (2020) 'EU security presence in Africa: Central African Republic', for Oxford Analytica, 7 pages.
Glawion, Tim (2018) 'Written expert report on the situation of the Gabooye in Somalia', for the Higher Administrative Court Minden, 7 pages.
Glawion, Tim (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018). 'Early warning report on Somalia', for the German Ministry of Cooperation and Development, 15 pages each.