Dr. Guido Steinberg


Research Division: Middle East and Africa
Senior Associate

guido.steinberg(at)swp-berlin.org

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

Areas of Expertise:

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


SWP Publications (selection):

Guido Steinberg

Ahrar al-Sham: The »Syrian Taliban«

Al-Nusra Ally Seeks Partnership with West

SWP Comment 2016/C 27, May 2016, 7 Pages
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Guido Steinberg

The Other Vanguard of International Terrorism

Despite Setbacks Al-Qaeda Profits from Yemen Civil War

SWP Comment 2016/C 04, January 2016, 8 Pages
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Guido Steinberg

Leading the Counter-Revolution

Saudi Arabia and the Arab Spring

SWP Research Paper 2014/RP 07, June 2014, 27 Pages
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Guido Steinberg

A Chechen al-Qaeda?

Caucasian Groups Further Internationalise the Syrian Struggle

SWP Comment 2014/C 31, June 2014, 7 Pages
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Guido Steinberg

The New “Lions of Syria”

Salafist and Jihadist Groups Dominate Insurgency

SWP Comment 2014/C 19, April 2014, 8 Pages
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External Publications (selection):

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

German Jihad: On the Internationalization of Islamist Terrorism

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

In the Media/ »Point of View« (selection):

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

Sunni vs Shi'a: Opposition Fueled by Power Politics

The conflict between Sunnis and Shi'as in the Middle East is based on religious differences. It is, however, fueled by Islamists and power politics, says Guido Steinberg.

Point of View, August 2013

SWP Comments

Peter Lintl, Stefan Wolfrum
Israel’s Nation-State Law

Netanyahu Government Lays the Foundations for a Majoritarian System

Wolfram Lacher
Libya: Getting Serious about Negotiations

How a New Political Process Could Help Tackle Security Challenges

SWP Research Papers

Muriel Asseburg, Wolfram Lacher, Mareike Transfeld
Mission Impossible?

UN Mediation in Libya, Syria and Yemen

Lars Brozus (ed.)
While We Were Planning

Unexpected Developments in International Politics. Foresight Contributions 2018