Helmut Krieger

Helmut Krieger, a social scientist, is a lecturer in international politics at the Department of Development Studies and the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna. In addition to a research project on political economy of state formation in the occupied Palestinian territories he is currently working on an academic partnership with the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) from Birzeit University, West Bank, which is funded by the Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education & Research for Development (APPEAR).

His main research areas are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, political Islam in the Arab world, critical state theories, and postcolonial theory.

He can be contacted at helmut.krieger@univie.ac.at