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• Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Germany. He holds a M.A. in Political Science, Sociology and Publc Law (1996) and Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from Johannes-Gutenberg University at mainz (Germany). Before joining Heidelberg in 2006, he taught as assistant professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. His main research interests include civil–military relations, democratic governance and political institutions, democratization studies, modern authoritarianism, conflict studies and comparative Asian politics. He has published in English, German, Spanish, Russian, Korean and Indonesian. He received research fellowships from Korea Foundation (1988, 2023/24), Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (2023), National Endowment for Democracy (2017/18), Kyoto University (2017), Australian National University (2013), Uppsala University (2013), East West Center Honolulu (2011), East Asia Institute (2011) and Sejong Institute (since 2022). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Democratization and a member of the editorial boards of International Studies Review, Asian Journal of Political Science, Asian Education and Development Studies, Asian Society & Politics, and the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs. He is regional coordinator for Asia-Oceania for the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) and the Bertelsmann Transformation-Index (BTI), and a member of the Academic Advisory Boards of the German Institute for Global Affairs (GIGA, Hamburg), and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP, Berlin). His research interests include civil–military relations, democratization, authoritarianism, and comparative Asian politics. His work appeared in journals such as Party Politics, Pacific Review, Armed Forces & Society, Democratization, Electoral Studies, Asian Survey, Journal of Democracy, Democracy & Security, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Terrorism and Political Violence, among others. His recent books include Civil-Military Relations and Democracy in the Third Wave (Oxford University Press, with David Kuehn); Democracy, State Capacity and the Governance of COVID-19 in Asia-Oceania (Routledge, with Olli Hellmann); Stateness and Democracy in East Asia (Cambridge University Press, with Olli Hellmann); Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press); and Government and Politics in Southeast Asia (Springer). He is currently finishing a research monograph on military reactions to anti-regime protests in authoritarian regimes (Dicator’s Endgame, Oxford University Press, with Tanja Eschenauer-Engler and David Kuehn), the Routledge Research Handbook of Autocratization (with Luca Tomini), and the Edward Elgar Handbook of Civil Military Relations (with David Pion-Berlin and David Kuehn). For more information see:  https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/politikwissenschaften/personal/croissant/croissant_en.html