Jörg Michael Dostal
Jörg Michael is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University, Korea. He holds degrees from NUI Galway, FU Berlin and the University of Bath and obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford (St Antony’s College). He is the co-author of ‘Syria and the Euro-Mediterranean Relationship’, St Andrews Papers on Contemporary Syria (Lynne Rienner 2008) and of ‘Analyzing the Domestic and International Conflict in Syria: Are There Lessons from Political Science?’ (Syria Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2014). His research concerns comparative politics and comparative public policy with a focus on the interaction between international organizations and transition countries and has been published in journals such as ‘Global Social Policy’, ‘Journal of European Public Policy’, ‘Korean Journal of Policy Studies’ and ‘Social Policy and Administration’.
Syria’s Global War and Beyond: Will the Balance of Power in the Middle East be Restored?, Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 18., 3, November 2018, 351-392.
The German Federal Election of 2017: How the Wedge Issue of Refugees and Migration Took the Shine off Chancellor Merkel and Transformed the Party System, The Political Quarterly, 88, 4, November 2017: 589-602.
Transnational War in Syria: The Eisenhower Doctrine in the 21st Century?, Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, September 2016, 179-217.
Syria and the Great Powers (1946-1958); How Western Power Politics Pushed the Country Toward the Soviet Union’, Syria Studies, 7(4), December 2015, 1-56
Syria and Iraq: The Long-Term Cost of Geopolitical Destabilisation, Panorama: Insights into Asian and European Affairs, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Singapore, July 2015, 173-195.
Analyzing the domestic and international conflict in Syria: Are there lessons from political science?, Syria Studies, 6(1), March 2014, 1 – 80
Syria – the Outcast State, Political Insight, Wiley, April 2014.
Syria and the Euro-Mediterranean Relationship, jointly with Anja Zorob, Foreword by Prof. Raymond Hinnebusch, St Andrews Papers, Centre for Syrian Studies, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1 (2), 2009, pp.1-79