Miriam M. Müller-Rensch (Joint PhD) received her doctorate jointly from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and the University of Victoria, Canada, in Political Science and International Relations. With her interdisciplinary dissertation on East German Foreign Policy in Southern Yemen, she especially addressed the role of Marxism-Leninism with regard to “Socialist state- and nation-building” in the Global South during the Cold War. Specialized in the politics of the Middle East, she focuses on religious and political ideologies, statehood, international security and foreign policy. Her current research project is part of the research group on macro-violence at the Hamburg Institute of Social Research and is occupied with the role of religion, violence and identity in the manifestations of the Islamic State.
Research Interests: Middle East (Arab Peninsula), Foreign Policy, Cold War History, Nationalism, Political and Religious Ideologies, Jihadi-Salafism, and Terrorism Systems
| Institution: | University of Applied Sciences Erfurt |
| Fields of Expertise: | Commemoration and Memorialization Communism and the Cold War Divide Defence and Security International Relations and Foreign Policy Nationalism and Extremism Political Extremism Public History |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | miriam.mueller-rensch@fh-erfurt.de |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | Arabic, English, French, German |
| Publications: | A Spectre is haunting Arabia - How the Germans brought their Marxism to Yemen, Transcript, Verlag, Bielefeld, 2015. Terror oder Terrorismus? Der "Islamische Staat" zwischen staatstypischer und nichtstaatlicher Gewalt. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte. 66(2016),24/25; S. 27-32 Eine Nacht im Schlafwagen von Wien nach Hamburg, In: Gerhardt, Katharina/Kirsten, Caterina/Novel, Ariane/Richter, Nikola/Rudkoffsky, Frank O./Siegmund, Eva, Willkommen! Blogger schreiben für Flüchtlinge, Microtext, 2015. “Soviet dilemma at the Gate of Tears”: Moscow’s involvement in South Yemen’s ‘January crisis’ of 1986 between influence, imposition and lack of control, in: Jemen-Report, Jahrgang 46, Heft 1/2, 2015. „Sultanspaläste in Volkes Hand“ - Das Engagement der DDR in Südjemen als sozialistisches State- und Nation-Building, in : Zeitschrift des Forschungsverbundes SED-Staat, Nr.37/2015. Das Kalifat des 21. Jahrhunderts. Zwei Monografien zum Aufstieg des "Islamischen Staats". [Sammelrezension], in : Soziopolis, 23. Mai 2016 In aller Freundschaft. Die DDR, Honecker und die Krise des Südjemen 1986. Bonn: CARPO - Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient, CARPO Studies Vol. 1, 2016 Noch nutzt die “Verorganisierung” dem Islamischen Staat. Eine Antwort auf Stefan Kühl und die „Verorganisierung“ des Islamismus, in: Sozialteoristen.de, 3.Dezember 2015. |
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