Tina Zintl
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About
Tina Zintl is PhD candidate at St Andrews University's School of International Relations, where she also works as research assistant at the Centre for Syrian Studies. She holds a master's degree in political science, economics and geography from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg/Germany. Her research interests focus on economic and political transformation and state-society relations in Syria and other Arab countries.
Biography
2009-present
Research Assistant, Centre for Syrian Studies, University of St Andrews.
2008
MA in Political Science (major), Economics & Geography (minors) from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg/Germany.
2007-2008
Student Assistant, Institute for Political Science and Contemporary History of the Middle East, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg/Germany.
2006-2007
Intern, Middle East Department, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development/ Germany.
2005
Intern, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Islamabad/Pakistan.
2004
Arab language course at University of Damascus, Syria.
Thesis Title
Syria's modernization from above: Bashar al-Asad's promotion of foreign-educated returnees as transnational technocrats
Supervisor
Prof. Raymond Hinnebusch; Dr. Fiona McCallum
Research Interests
Economic and political transformation, state-society relations, migration and education in Syria and other Arab countries.
Publications
Hinnebusch, Raymond and Tina Zintl (forthcoming, eds.): Syria under Bashar al-Asad, 2000-2010: Political-Economy and International Relations. New York: Syracuse University Press.
Including: "Introduction," co-authored with Raymond Hinnebusch; and single-authored chapter "The co-optation of foreign-educated Syrians: Between legitimizing strategy and domestic reforms."
Ehteshami, A. and R. Hinnebusch, H Huutanen, P. Raunio, M. Warnaar, and T. Zintl (forthcoming 2012): "Authoritarian resilience and International Linkages in Iran and Syria" In: Heydemann, Steven/ Leenders, Reinoud: Middle East Authoritarianisms: Governance and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran. Stanford University Press.
Zintl, Tina (forthcoming 2012): “Syria’s reforms under Bashar al-Asad: an opportunity for foreign-educated entrepreneurs to move into decision-making?” In: Luciani, Giacomo /Hertog, Stefan/Valerie, Marc (eds.): Beyond Cronyism? Business Politics in the Arab World, Hurst/London.
Zintl, Tina (forthcoming 2012): Modernization Theory II: Western Educated Syrians and the Authoritarian Upgrading of Civil Society. In: ibid./ Laura Ruiz de Elvira: Civil Society and the State in Syria: The Outsourcing of Social Responsibility. St Andrews Papers on Contemporary Syria, Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Zintl, Tina (2009): Modernisierungspolitik durch Kompetenztransfer? Syrische Remigranten mit deutschem Hochschulabschluss als Katalysatoren von Brain Gain in Syrien unter Bashar al-Assad. In: Weiss, Dieter/Wippel, Steffen (eds.) Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionspapiere Nr. 104, Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag.
Conferences
2012
"The Syrian Crisis: between Revolution and Civil War", invited talk, St Andrews Foreign Affairs Conference, St Andrews, February 2012.
2011
“Researching Syria between authoritarian upgrading and revolution: Methodological approaches and constraints in interviews with foreign-educated returnees” and “Euro-Mediterranean players par excellence? Conceptionalizing transnational Arabs' logics of action”, Conference papers, 10th DAVO International Congress, Berlin, October 2011.
"Ambassadors abroad, cosmopolitans at home? The role of Syria's expatriates and repatriates for Syria's image campaign." Conference paper, BRISMES Postgraduate Conference, Manchester, January 2011.
2010
"The co-optation of foreign-educated Syrians: Between legitimizing strategy and domestic reforms." Conference paper "Bashar al-Asad's First Decade", Lund/ Sweden, October 2010.
"International education and the blurring between "us" and "them": A conceptionalization of foreign-educated Arabs' political (inter)actions at home and abroad." Conference paper, WOCMES, Barcelona, July 2010, financed through travel grant by Honeymann Foundation.
"Syria’s reforms under Bashar al-Asad: an opportunity for foreign-educated entrepreneurs to move into decision-making?" Conference paper, Gulf Research Meeting, Cambridge, July 2010.
2009
"The political inclusion of foreign-educated nationals: A way of modernizing and internationalizing authoritarian regimes, illustrated by the Syrian case."
Conference paper, ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, September 2009.
2007
"Elitenwandel durch Technokratisierung?", Conference paper for 30th German Congress of Oriental Studies, Freiburg/Germany, September 2007 and, in similar version, for student conference "Migration neu denken!", Mainz/Germany, November 2007.
Conference Organisation
Converence convenor of the 1st CSS Postgraduate Conference on Syria held in St Andrews, September 2011.
Grants
Several travel grants, including the Russell Trust Award 2009.
Teaching
Tutorials for: IR1005 Introduction into IR, IR4520 Political Islam
