Dr. Wolfram Lacher

Dr. Wolfram Lacher


Research Division: Middle East and Africa
Senior Associate

wolfram.lacher(at)swp-berlin.org

2018 PhD, political science, Humboldt University, Berlin

2014 Member of the project »Elite Change and New Social Mobilization in the Arab World«

Since 2010 Associate, Middle East and Africa Division, SWP

2007–2010 North Africa Analyst, Control Risks, London

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

2005 Graduate Diploma in Political Science, American University in Cairo (AUC)

2001–2004 Arabic and African Studies in Leipzig and Paris

Areas of Expertise:

Libya, Sahel, Civil wars, Fragile states, Regional and interstate conflicts


SWP Publications (selection):

Wolfram Lacher

Tripoli’s Militia Cartel

How Ill-Conceived Stabilisation Blocks Political Progress, and Risks Renewed War

SWP Comment 2018/C 20, April 2018, 4 Pages
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Wolfram Lacher

Supporting Stabilization in Libya

The Challenges of Finalizing and Implementing the Skhirat Agreement

SWP Comment 2015/C 36, July 2015, 9 Pages
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Wolfram Lacher

Libya: A Jihadist Growth Market

in: Guido Steinberg, Annette Weber (eds.)
Jihadism in Africa

Local Causes, Regional Expansion, International Alliances

Contributions to Research Papers 2015/RP 05, June 2015, 104 Pages, S. 31-50
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Wolfram Lacher

Libya’s Transition: Towards Collapse

SWP Comment 2014/C 25, May 2014, 4 Pages
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Wolfram Lacher

Fault Lines of the Revolution

Political Actors, Camps and Conflicts in the New Libya

SWP Research Paper 2013/RP 04, May 2013, 36 Pages
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External Publications (selection):

Wolfram Lacher, Alaa al-Idrissi

Capital of Militias: Tripoli’s Armed Groups Capture the Libyan State

in: Small Arms Survey, SANA Briefing Paper, June 2018
Wolfram Lacher

Was Libya’s Collapse Predictable?

The debate over whether the Libyan intervention was justified should take as its starting point the imponderables facing decision-makers in March 2011.

in: Survival, 59 (2017) 2, p. 139-152
Wolfram Lacher

Libya’s Local Elites and the Politics of Alliance Building

in: Mediterranean Politics (Special Issue "Dynamics of Transformation, Elite Change and New Social Mobilization in the Arab World"), 21 (2016) 1 (online versions October 2015).
Peter Cole, Wolfram Lacher

Politics by Other Means

Conflicting Interests in Libya's Security Sector

Small Arms Survey, Working Paper 20, October 2014, 102 Seiten
Wolfram Lacher

Organized Crime and Conflict in the Sahel-Sahara Region

Carnegie Paper, September 2012
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In the Media/ »Point of View« (selection):

Wolfram Lacher, Frederic Wehrey

The Wrong Way to Fix Libya

Early Elections Would Be a Disaster

In: Foreign Affairs, 19.6.2018 (online)
Wolfram Lacher

«La fragmentation de la Libye se produit autour de la répartition des ressources»

Pour le chercheur allemand Wolfram Lacher le gouvernement d’unité nationale de Faïez Sarraj a échoué sur tous les fronts.

Interview von Frédéric Robin, in: Le Monde, 21./22.05.2017, S. 14
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Wolfram Lacher, Frederic Wehrey

Libya after ISIS

in: Foreign Affairs, 22.02.2017 (online)
Wolfram Lacher

The UN wants to end Libya’s civil war. Here’s the big challenge they face.

in: The Washington Post, »Monkey Cage«, 05.11.2015, (online)
Wolfram Lacher, Frederic Wehrey

Libya's Legitimacy Crisis

The Danger of Picking Sides in the Post-Qaddafi Chaos

In: Foreign Affairs, 06.10.2014 (online)

SWP Research Papers

Peter Lintl (ed.)
Actors in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Interests, Narratives and the Reciprocal Effects of the Occupation

Mareike Transfeld, Isabelle Werenfels
#HashtagSolidarities: Twitter Debates and Networks in the MENA Region