Dr. Wolfram Lacher

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Dr. Wolfram Lacher

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Research Division:

Africa and Middle East Senior Associate

Research Division:

Megatrends Afrika Project Director

wolfram.lacher@swp-berlin.org

Curriculum Vitae
Publications
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Areas of Expertise

Libya
Sahel
Civil wars
Fragile states
Regional and interstate conflicts

Short Curriculum vitae

Since 2010 at SWP

2018 PhD, Political Science, Humboldt University, Berlin

2007-2010 North Africa Analyst, Control Risks, London

2006 MSc, Violence, Conflict & Development, SOAS, London

2001-2005 Political Science, Arabic and African Studies in Leipzig, Paris and Cairo

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SWP Publications

- Wolfram Lacher
Chad’s Crisis-Prone Transition
- German
Dynastic consolidation and its risks

SWP Comment 2022/C 67, 21.11.2022, 5 Pages

doi:10.18449/2022C67
- Wolfram Lacher
Macron as a Spoiler in Libya
in:
- Ronja Kempin (ed.)
France’s Foreign and Security Policy under President Macron
- German
Contribution to a Research Paper 2021/RP 04, 28.05.2021, 51 Pages, pp. 15–20
- Wolfram Lacher
Libya’s Flawed Unity Government
- German
A Semblance of Compromise Obscures Old and New Rifts

SWP Comment 2021/C 29, 22.04.2021

doi:10.18449/2021C29
- Wolfram Lacher
A Most Irregular Army

The Rise of Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces

Working Paper Research Division Middle East and Africa, 2020/02, 32 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020WP12
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- Wolfram Lacher
The Great Carve-Up
- German
Libya’s Internationalised Conflicts after Tripoli

SWP Comment 2020/C 25, 03.06.2020, 4 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C25
- Wolfram Lacher
International Schemes, Libyan Realities
- German
Attempts at Appeasing Khalifa Haftar Risk Further Escalating Libya’s Civil War

SWP Comment 2019/C 45, 25.11.2019, 4 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019C45

Publications of the Megatrends Afrika project

Megatrends and Conflict Dynamics in Africa: Multipolarity and Delegation in Foreign Interventions

Megatrends such as climate change, digitalisation, and urbanisation are transforming all aspects of politics, economics and society in Africa. Consequently, they are also affecting conflict dynamics. This Working Paper focuses specifically on how megatrends are altering patterns of foreign intervention in African conflicts. Two aspects stand out: the range of intervening powers is widening, and they are intervening increasingly at arm’s length by delegating to human or technical surrogates.

Megatrends Working Paper 2022 02, 21.12.2022, 15 Pages

doi:10.18449/2022MTA-WP02
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- Wolfram Lacher
African Conflicts amid Multipolarity: Implications of a Changing Actor Landscape

The range of external actors intervening in internal conflicts on the African continent has undergone a noticeable change. Three states in particular are intervening in a growing number of African conflicts: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Turkey, and Russia. Their expanding footprint shows that the multipolar disorder that has characterised wars in the Middle East now also affects much of Africa.

Megatrends Policy Brief 03, 27.04.2022, 9 Pages

doi:10.18449/2022MTA-PB03
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External publications

- Wolfram Lacher
How Libya’s Central Bank Chief Survived a Decade of Conflict

According to Siddiq Kabir, he is the last pillar holding the country together. His adversaries claim he is perpetuating a national crisis

in: New Lines Magazine, 06.03.2023 (online)
- Wolfram Lacher
Libya’s New Order

in: Sidecar, the New Left Review blog, 26.01.2023 (online)
- Wolfram Lacher
How does civil war begin? The role of escalatory processes

In: Violence: An International Journal, 0(0), 2022.

doi:10.1177/26330024221130364
- Wolfram Lacher
Libya’s Escalating Power Struggle

Competition between two rival administrations is again fueling tensions in Tripoli – and foreign powers are looking on

in: New Lines Magazine, 20.06.2022 (online)
- Wolfram Lacher
Social Cleavages and Armed Group Consolidation

The Case of Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces

in: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 20.12.2021 (online first).

doi:10.1080/1057610X.2021.2013757
- Wolfram Lacher
Drones, Deniability, and Disinformation

Warfare in Libya and the New International Disorder

in: War on the Rocks, 03.03.2020 (online)

Book reviews

Selected reviews of:

Wolfram Lacher
Libya’s Fragmentation
Structure and Process in Violent Conflict
I.B. Tauris, London 2020, 304 S., ISBN 978-0-755-60081-6

»Lacher makes a significant contribution to scholarship on contemporary events in Libya and to conflict studies more broadly.« – Tim Eaton, in: The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Summer 2020, Libya’s Fragmentation: Novel ways to understand why the Libyan revolution occurred and moves toward its resolution – Book Reviews – The Cairo Review of Global Affairs

»An indispensable work for anyone interested in Libya and North Africa, as well as in armed conflicts more generally« – Judith Scheele, in: Politique Africaine 160 (2020), Libya’s Fragmentation: Structure and Process in Violent Conflict – Revues des Livres – Polaf n° 160

»A remarkable combination of fieldwork and theory, Libya’s Fragmentation is highly recommended for diplomats, journalists, and scholars.« – Ronald Bruce St John, in: The Middle East Journal, Autumn 2020, Libya’s Fragmentation: Structure and Process in Violent Conflict by Wolfram Lacher – Review – The Middle East Journal

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