Dr. Guido Steinberg

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Dr. Guido Steinberg

Research Division:

Africa and Middle East Senior Associate

guido.steinberg@swp-berlin.org

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Areas of Expertise

Arabian Peninsula
Kurds in the Middle East
Middle East
Jihadism
Political Islam / Islamism
Terrorism

Short Curriculum vitae

2002-2005 Advisor on International Terrorism, Federal Chancellery, Berlin

2001 Research Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Center Social and Cultural History of the Middle East, Freie Universität Berlin

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SWP Publications

The Political Transition in Syria: Regional and International Interests
- German
SWP Comment 2025/C 11, 18.03.2025, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2025C11
The Fall of the Assad Regime: Regional and International Power Shifts
- German
SWP Comment 2025/C 09, 25.02.2025, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2025C09
- Guido Steinberg
Qatar’s Foreign Policy
- German
Decision-making processes, baselines, and strategies

SWP Research Paper 2023/RP 04, 06.04.2023, 34 Pages

doi:10.18449/2023RP04
- Guido Steinberg
- Aljoscha Albrecht
Terror Against the Taliban
- German
Islamic State Shows New Strength in Afghanistan

SWP Comment 2022/C 12, 21.02.2022, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2022C12
- Guido Steinberg
The “Axis of Resistance”

Iran’s Expansion in the Middle East Is Hitting a Wall

SWP Research Paper 2021/RP 06, 12.08.2021, 35 Pages

doi:10.18449/2021RP06
- Guido Steinberg
Regional Power United Arab Emirates
- German
Abu Dhabi Is No Longer Saudi Arabia’s Junior Partner

SWP Research Paper 2020/RP 10, 08.07.2020, 35 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020RP10

External publications

- Isabelle Werenfels
- Guido Steinberg
Regional trends after the dissolution of "old orders" in the Middle East and North Africa

In: David Ramin Jalilvand, Kirsten Westphal (Hrsg.): The Political and Economic Challenges of Energy in the Middle East and North Africa, Routledge, 2018, pp.13-26.
- Guido Steinberg
Refugees, Terrorism, and a Failing Security Architecture

Germany’s Domestic Security after the Elections

AICGS (American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University), 21.11.2017 (online)
- Guido Steinberg
Islamist Terrorism in Germany: Threats, Responses, and the Need for a Strategy

AICGS Policy Report 66, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2017
- Guido Steinberg
AQAP, ISIS, and Domestic Security in Saudi Arabia

in: Joshua Teitelbaum: Saudi Arabia, the Gulf, and the New Regional Landscape, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 133, 2017, pp. 33-36.
- Guido Steinberg
ISIS vs. al-Qaeda: The struggle for the soul of the jihadist movement

in: sicherheitspolitik-blog.de, 05.02.2015, (online)
- Guido Steinberg
German Jihad: On the Internationalization of Islamist Terrorism

New York: Columbia University Press, June 2013, 320 pages