Sabine Hofmann

Dr. Sabine Hofmann is a Lecturer at the Middle East Politics Unit within the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin. With a career spanning over three decades, she specializes in Middle East politics, political economy, and conflict research, focusing on Israel, Palestine, and Jordan.

• Academic career: Lecturer at Free University since 1993, with teaching assignments at Humboldt University, University of Marburg, and other German institutions
• Research areas: Inter- and transnational politics, technology development in conflict zones, regionalization, and globalization

Her fieldwork spans Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, and Egypt. She has co-edited the 2017 volume Between State and Non-State and contributed to key publications on Middle East economic cooperation and statehood.

Scientific Contributions

• Co-authored the 2017 Between State and Non-State book series
• 2016 analysis of Kurdish and Palestinian institutionalization
• 2013 GIGA Focus on stalled Oslo process

Teaching

Since 2008, she has taught courses at Free University on:

• Comparative foreign policy of de facto states (2019-2020)
• Politics and society in Israel (2019)
• Middle East de facto states (2018)

Publications

Her 2000–2020 work examines:

• Transnational innovation systems in Israel
• Political economy of Middle East security
• Economic cooperation under conflict
• Technology policy in Israel