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Dr. Stephan Roll

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Research Division:

Africa and Middle East Head of Research Division

stephan.roll@swp-berlin.org

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Areas of Expertise

North Africa and Middle East

Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Elites and elite change

Focus

Economic Developments, Political Economy

Short Curriculum vitae

Since 2018 Head, Research Division Africa and Middle East

2012 – 2015 Member of the project »Elite Change and New Social Mobilization in the Arab World«

2009 – 2012 Forum Ebenhausen Fellowship

2010 – 2011 Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

2007 – 2009 Hanns Seidel Foundation, PhD scholarship

2006 German Academic Exchange Service, research scholarship (research stay in Cairo, Egypt)

2005 – 2009 PhD Candidate, Subdivision Contemporary Orient Research, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg

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SWP Publications

- Stephan Roll
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE: The End of an Alliance
- German
Divergences of interest in bilateral relations offer opportunities for Germany and the EU

SWP Comment 2023/C 47, 23.08.2023, 6 Pages

doi:10.18449/2023C47v02
- Jannis Grimm
- Stephan Roll
Human Rights Dialogue with Arab States
- German
Argumentation patterns of authoritarian regimes as a challenge for a values-based foreign policy

SWP Comment 2023/C 41, 19.07.2023, 7 Pages

doi:10.18449/2023C41
- Stephan Roll
Egypt’s SDG Policy: A Fig-leaf for Consolidation of Power
in:
- Marianne Beisheim (ed.)
Country-level Politics around the SDGs
Contribution to a Research Paper 2023/RP 07, 10.07.2023, 75 Pages, pp. 34–37
- Stephan Roll
Loans for the President

External Debt and Power Consolidation in Egypt

SWP Research Paper 2022/RP 12, 14.12.2022, 33 Pages

doi:10.18449/2022RP12
- Patricia Jannack
- Stephan Roll
Political Prisoners in Sisi’s Egypt
- German
Arbitrary Detention as an Obstacle to German Stabilisation Efforts

SWP Comment 2021/C 49, 07.09.2021, 4 Pages

doi:10.18449/2021C49
- Lars Brozus
- Stephan Roll
Five years after the murder of Giulio Regeni: Europe's dangerous Egypt policy
- German
Egypt has never been called to account for the murder of Giulio Regeni, nor for the numerous human rights violations committed by the Sisi regime. Focusing only on stability, European governments are increasingly losing touch with actual developments in Egypt, say Lars Brozus and Stephan Roll.

Point of View, 03.02.2021

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Publications of the Megatrends Afrika project

- Stephan Roll
Why Egypt’s foreign intelligence service benefits from the World Climate Conference
- German
In Egypt, preparations for this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) are in full swing. In this Megatrends Afrika Spotlight, Stephan Roll (SWP) explains the role of Egypt’s foreign intelligence service in its implementation and what this means for the authoritarian regime under President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.

Megatrends spotlight 2022 16, 18.10.2022

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External publications

- Stephan Roll
- Yannik Hüllinghorst
German Arms Exports and Growing Tensions in the Middle East

Middle East regional dynamics have made arms exports less compatible with German export regulations.

in: TAWAZUN BLOG (online), 22.02.2021.
- Stephan Roll
The Impact of COVID-19 on Egypt’s Economy and Prospects for Reform

in: Prospects for Reform in the Arab Region in Post COVID-19 Realities, Human Rights Dissimination Program by CIHRS, February 19, 2021 (online), pp. 26-37.
- Stephan Roll
The Nile Conflict and Egypt’s Failed Power Projection

ISPI Commentary, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), 24.09.2020 (online).
- Stephan Roll
'Egypt's leadership feels markedly threatened by Turkey'

The dispute about maritime territories between Turkey and Greece is heating up. Egypt's involvement has added a new dimension to the conflict, the Middle East analyst Stephan Roll says.

Interview with Panagiotis Kouparanis, in: Deutsche Welle, 11.08.2020 (online)
- Stephan Roll
A Missed Opportunity: Germany and the IMF-Agreement with Egypt

Tarek Radwan (Ed.): The Impact and Influence of International Financial Institutions on the Economies of the Middle East and North Africa, Tunis: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, April 2020, pp. 126-136.
- Stephan Roll
Aramco’s IPO and Bin Salman’s Fiscal Takeover

In: Sada, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 02.12.2019 (online)

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