Tim Glawion

Dr. Tim Glawion is interim professor of Multilevel Governance at the University of Freiburg.
He is also an associated senior researcher in the Conflict and Fragility Cluster at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute. In 2025, he co-convened an Interdisciplinary Fellow Group at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa, University of Ghana. Prior, he was interim professor of political science at the University of Freiburg, research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies, and research consultant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Tim served as co-Editor in Chief of Africa Spectrum from 2022 to 2024. He is the author of The Security Arena in Africa (Cambridge University Press 2020) and numerous articles on the conflict-development nexus, peacekeeping perceptions, hybrid orders, rebel governance, fragile states, and qualitative methodology. His current research focuses on security paradoxes and the monopoly on the use of force in Lebanon and the Central African Republic as well as on finding new ways for qualitative cross-country comparisons in peace and conflict studies.

Newest publications
Disconnected Development: https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2026.2639132
Peacekeeping expectations: https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2024.2443862
Rebel Governance: https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2022.2137282
Hybrid Orders: https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2022.2079246
Studying Conflict: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14687941211061061
The Security Arena in Africa (book): https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108623629