Jasmin Lorch

Senior Researcher

German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn

Jasmin.Lorch [at] idos-research.de

Jasmin Lorch is Senior Researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) in Bonn. Before joining IDOS, she was a Postdoc and Annemarie Schimmel Scholar at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy and an Associated Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Weber Centre of the University of Erfurt. She also acted as stand-in for the Professorship on Southeast Asian History and Society at the Department of Asian and African Studies of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Jasmin was also previously a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg/Berlin and, earlier, at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin. She holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Freiburg and an MA in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin.

Jasmin has researched and published extensively about the role of civil society in weak states and in autocratic regimes as well as in processes of democratization and autocratization, with a regional focus on South and Southeast Asia. She is the author of Civil Society and Mirror Images of Weak States: Bangladesh and the Philippines, published by Palgrave Macmillan (2017). Her research has also focused on ‘Shrinking Space’ and the impact of COVID-19 on Civic Space both in Southeast Asia and globally (together with Janjira Sombatpoonsiri). In addition, she has conducted extensive research, including field research, on Islamist movements in South and Southeast Asia as well as in North Africa. She has provided policy advice to representatives of the German Federal Foreign Office and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, among others.