Holger Albrecht
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
- (205) 348-5528
- halbrecht@ua.edu
- ten Hoor Hall 317
Education
- Dr. rer. soz.,Tuebingen University, 2008
- MA (Magister Artium), Tuebingen University, 2001
Research Areas
- Comparative Politics
About
Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 1:00pm-2:00pm via zoom or by appointment via zoom
email for appointment
Research Interests
- Civil-Military Relations
- Authoritarianism and Regime Change
- Middle East Politics
- Violent Domestic Conflict
Teaching Interests
- Middle East Politics
- Civil-Military Relations
- Islamist Movements & Terrorism
- Authoritarianism
- Research Design
Selected Publications
- Albrecht, Holger. 2020. “Diversionary Peace: International Peacekeeping and Domestic Civil-Military Relations,” International Peacekeeping 27(4): 586-616.
- Albrecht, Holger and Kevin Koehler. 2020. “Revolutionary Mass Uprisings in Authoritarian Regimes,” International Area Studies Review 23(3): 135-159.
- Albrecht, Holger. 2019. “Military Insubordination in Popular Mass Uprisings,” Political Science Quarterly 134(2): 303-328.
- Koehler, Kevin and Holger Albrecht. 2019. “Revolutions and the Military: Endgame Coups, Instability, and Prospects for Democracy,” Armed Forces & Society, online first.
- Albrecht, Holger and Ferdinand Eibl. 2018. “How to Keep Officers in the Barracks? Causes, Agents, and Types of Military Coups,” International Studies Quarterly 62(2): 315-328.
- Albrecht, Holger and Kevin Koehler. 2018. “Going on the Run: What Drives Military Desertion in Civil War?” Security Studies 27(2): 179-203.
- Albrecht, Holger, Aurel Croissant and Fred Lawson, eds. 2016. Military Engagement in Mobilizing Societies: Armies and Insurgencies in the Arab Spring, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Koehler, Kevin, Dorothy Ohl and Holger Albrecht. 2016. “From Disaffection to Desertion: How Networks Facilitate Military Insubordination in Civil Conflict,” Comparative Politics 48(4): 439-457.
- Albrecht, Holger and Dorothy Ohl. 2016. “Exit, Resistance, Loyalty: Military Behavior during Unrest in Authoritarian Regimes,” Perspectives on Politics 14(1): 38-52.
- Albrecht, Holger. 2015. “The Myth of Coup-proofing: Risk and Instances of Military Coups d’état in the Middle East and North Africa, 1950-2013,” Armed Forces & Society 41(4): 659-687.
- Albrecht, Holger. 2015. “Does Coup-Proofing Work? Political-Military Relations in Authoritarian Regimes amid the Arab Uprisings,” Mediterranean Politics 20(1): 36-54.
- Albrecht, Holger. 2013. Raging against the Machine: Political Opposition under Authoritarianism in Egypt. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press