States of Emergency and the Rise of Militias: New Research Project at the University of Mannheim

Porträtbild von Emine Ari. Sie steht in einem Park, trägt eine Brille, offene Haare und ein blaues Oberteil.

Emine Ari, Ph.D., will spend two years investigating how states of emergency shape the way governments respond to political resistance. In particular, she examines why some governments rely on militias to suppress opposition and how this strategy changes when a state of emergency is declared. The political scientist from the University of Idaho, USA, is the third Humboldt Fellow to come to the chair of Prof. Sabine Carey, Ph.D., for a research stay.

Whether in civil wars, during political unrest, or in the fight against opposition groups, governments are repeatedly faced with the question of which actors to rely on to control political violence and resistance. In addition to regular security forces, militias or other non-state armed groups may also be deployed. But how do governments decide which actors to use to suppress political resistance? And does declaring a state of emergency change these decisions? Emine Ari will address these questions during her two-year research stay at the University of Mannheim.

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