Aurel Croissant is a professor of political science at Heidelberg University, Germany. His main areas of research include comparative politics of East and Southeast Asia, democratization studies, civil-military relations, conflict studies, and comparative authoritarianism. He has twenty years of experience in teaching undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses in Germany, the USA, and several Asian countries. He has published 15 books, co-edited about 25 volumes and special issues, and published about 200 articles in edited volumes and academic journals such as Democratization, Party Politics, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Journal of East Asian Studies, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Pacific Review, Journal of Democracy, Asian Survey, Electoral Studies, and European Political Science Review. His publications appeared in English, German, Korean, Spanish, Indonesian, and Russian. He is the co-editor of the Journal Democratization (with Jeffrey Haynes).
