Zintl, Tina
Dr. Tina Zintl
Department
Transformation of Economic and Social Systems
Function
Senior Researcher
Specialization
Political Science
Work areas
- Development Co-operation with the MENA region
- Labour market policies and employment promotion
- Digitalization, industrial policy and inclusive economic development
- Authoritarianism and state-society relations
- Migration, diaspora and knowledge transfer
- Qualitative research methods and research ethics
Regional expertise
- The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Responsibilities in education and training
- Research Ethics
Vita
| since 1/2018 | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) (until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)) Senior Researcher, Research Department "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems" |
| 10/2016-12/2017 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Senior Researcher, Department "Sustainable Economic and Social Development" |
| 2/2014-9/2016 | Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Institute of Political Science Research and teaching fellow |
| 2/2013-9/2016 | Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Institute of Political Science Academic coordinator of MA Program "Comparative and Middle East Politics and Development" (CMEPS) |
| 9/2008-6/2013 | University of St. Andrews (UK), School of International Relations PhD on "Syria’s authoritarian upgrading 2000-2010: Bashar al-Asad's promotion of foreign-educated returnees as transnational technocrats" (Dr. phil.), Research Assistant in Centre for Syrian Studies |
| 10/2004-2/2008 | Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Magister Artium (MA) in Political Science, Economics and Geographie |
| 10/2006-1/2007 | Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Intern, Department on Cooperation with the Middle East |
| 3/2005-4/2005 | Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Islamabad (Pakistan) Intern |
| 04/2004 - 09/2004 | University of Damascus (Syria) Semester abroad |
| 04/2001 - 09/2003 | University of Passau Pre-diploma in Languages, Economics and Cultural Area Studies |
Member of
- German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)
- Syrian Studies Association (SSA)
Awards
- Syrian Studies Association’s 2014 Dissertation Prize
- Syria from Reform to Revolt (with R. Hinnebusch) nominated as Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015, Choice Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
Refereed Publications
- Zintl, Tina / Annabelle Houdret (2024)
Moving towards smarter social contracts? Digital transformation as a driver of change in state–society relations in the MENA region
in: Mediterranean Politics, first published 23.07.2024 - Sudermann, Yannick / Tina Zintl (2024)
Towards an exclusionary social contract: Narratives of a revanchist city in (post)war Syria
in: Mediterranean Politics, first published 18.07.2024 - Loewe, Markus / Amirah El-Haddad / Mark Furness / Annabelle Houdret / Tina Zintl (2024)
Drivers of change in social contracts: building a conceptual framework
in: Mediterranean Politics, first published 17.07.2024 - Loewe, Markus / Tina Zintl (2023)
Are cash-for-work programmes good for local economic growth? The case of donor-funded public works for refugees and nationals in Jordan
in: Canadian Journal of Development Studies 45 (2), 285-305 - Zintl, Tina / Markus Loewe (2022)
More than the sum of its parts: donor-sponsored cash-for-work programmes and social cohesion in Jordanian communities hosting Syrian refugees
The European Journal of Development Research, 34 (3), 1320 - 1357 - Zintl, Tina (2022)
To regulate or not to regulate? Jordan’s approach to digital ride-hailing platform Careem
in: Labor and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa (POMEPS Studies 45), 76-81 - Altenburg, Tilman / Clara Brandi / Anna Pegels / Andreas Stamm / Kasper Vrolijk / Tina Zintl (2021)
COVID-19 – Turning point in the process of industrialization?
in: UNIDO Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development Working Paper Series 8 (2021) - Loewe, Markus / Tina Zintl (2021)
State fragility, social contracts and the role of social protection: perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
in: Social Sciences 10 (12), 1-23 - Loewe, Markus (ed.) (2021)
Framing the emergence of new social contracts in Middle East and North African countries
in: World Development, special issue - Loewe, Markus / Tina Zintl / Annabelle Houdret (2021)
The social contract as a tool of analysis: introduction to the special issue on “Framing the evolution of new social contracts in Middle Eastern and North African countries”
in: World Development 145, article 104982 - Hinnebusch, Raymond / Omar Imady / Tina Zintl (2017)
المقاومة المدنية في الانتفاضة السورية من الاحتجاج السلمي إلى الحرب الاهلية الطائفية (Civil resistance in the Syrian uprising: From peaceful protest to sectarian civil war)
in: Roberts, Adam / Michael J. Willis / Rory McCarthy / Timothy Garton Ash (eds.), المقاومة المدنية في الربيع العربي. الانتصارات و الكوارث (Civil resistance in the Arab Spring: triumphs and disasters), Beirut: All Prints Distributors & Publishers s.a.i., 335-369 - Hinnebusch, Raymond / Omar Imady / Tina Zintl (2016)
Civil resistance in the Syrian uprising: from peaceful Protest to sectarian civil war
in: Adam Roberts / Michael Willis / Timothy Garton Ash (eds.), Civil resistance in the Arab Spring: triumphs and disasters, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 223-247 - Hinnebusch, Raymond / Tina Zintl (eds.) (2015)
Syria from reform to revolt
(Volume 1: Political economy and international relations), Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Pr. - Ruiz de Elvira, Laura / Tina Zintl (2014)
The end of the Baʿthist social contract in Bashar al-Asad’s Syria: reading sociopolitical transformations through charities and broader benevolent activism
in: International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) 46 (2), 329-349 - Zintl, Tina (2013)
Modernization theory II: western-educated Syrians and the authoritarian upgrading of civil society
in: Laura Ruiz de Elvira / Tina Zintl (eds), Civil society and the state in Syria: the outsourcing of social responsibility (St Andrews Papers on Contemporary Syria), Boulder: Rienner Publ., 31-63 - Ehteshami, Anoush / Raymond Hinnebusch / Heidi Huuhtanen / Paola Raunio / Maaike Warnaar / Tina Zintl (2013)
Authoritarian resilience and international linkages in Iran and Syria
in: Steven Heydemann / Reinoud Leenders (eds.), Middle East authoritarianisms: governance and regime resilience in Syria and Iran, Stanford: Stanford Univ. Pr., 222-242 - Zintl, Tina (2013)
Syria’s reforms under Bashar al-Asad: an opportunity for foreign-educated entrepreneurs to move into decision-making?
in: Steffen Hertog / Giacomo Luciani / Marc Valerie (eds.), Business politics in the Middle East, London: Hurst, 159-182 - Zintl, Tina (2013)
Euro-Mediterranean players par excellence? Foreign-educated Syrians transnational logics of action
in: Jakob Horst / Annette Jünemann / Delf Rothe (eds.), Euro-Mediterranean relations after the Arab Spring: persistence in times of change, Farnham: Ashgate, 205-223
Non-refereed Publications
- Stöcker, Alexander / Tina Zintl (2024)
Economic development and barriers to (decent) work for women in SSA and MENA
(Discussion Paper 16/2024) - Loewe, Markus / Amirah El-Haddad / Tina Zintl (2024)
Operationalising social contracts: towards an index of government deliverables
(Discussion Paper 8/2024) - Loewe, Markus / Armin von Schiller / Tina Zintl / Julia Leininger (2024)
Social contract and social cohesion: synergies and tensions between two related concepts
(Policy Brief 3/2024) - Zintl, Tina (2023)
Feministische Entwicklungspolitik für inklusivere Gesellschaftsverträge
in: E+Z (7/2023), 32-33 - Zintl, Tina (2023)
Feminist development policy for more inclusive social contracts
in: D+C (7/2023), 32-33 - Altenburg, Tilman / Clara Brandi / Anna Pegels / Andreas Stamm / Kasper Vrolijk / Tina Zintl (2021)
COVID-19 – Turning point in the process of industrialization?
in: UNIDO Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development Working Paper Series 8 (2021) - Altenburg, Tilman / Clara Brandi / Anna Pegels / Andreas Stamm / Kasper Vrolijk / Tina Zintl (2021)
Does COVID-19 change the long-term prospects of latecomer industrialisation?
(Discussion Paper 32/2021) - Loewe, Markus / Tina Zintl (2021)
Do social transfers benefit local economic development? The case of cash-for-work programmes in Jordan
in: Economic Research Forum (ERF) Discussion Papers (1467) - Loewe, Markus / Tina Zintl / Jörn Fritzenkötter / Verena Gantner / Regina Kaltenbach / Lena Pohl (2020)
Community effects of cash-for-work programmes in Jordan: supporting social cohesion, more equitable gender roles and local economic development in contexts of flight and migration
(Studies 103) - Loewe, Markus / Bernhard Trautner / Tina Zintl // ماركوس لوفة / برنھارد تراوتنر/ تینا زينتلِ (2020)
العقد الاجتماعي: أداة تحلیلیة للبلدان في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقیا وأبعد (Arabic version of: The social contract: an analytical tool for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and beyond)
(Briefing Paper 6/2020) - Loewe, Markus / Bernhard Trautner / Tina Zintl (2020)
Le contrat social: un outil d’analyse pour les pays de la région Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord (MENA), et au-delà
(Briefing Paper 5/2020) - Loewe, Markus / Bernhard Trautner / Tina Zintl (2019)
Der Gesellschaftsvertrag: ein Analyseinstrument nicht nur für Länder im Nahen Osten und in Nordafrika (MENA)
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 13/2019) - Loewe, Markus / Bernhard Trautner / Tina Zintl (2019)
The social contract: an analytical tool for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and beyond
(Briefing Paper 17/2019) - Zintl, Tina (2009)
Modernisierungspolitik durch Kompetenztransfer? Syrische Remigranten mit deutschem Hochschulabschluss als Katalysatoren von Brain Gain in Syrien unter Bashar al-Assad
Berlin: Schwarz (Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionspapiere 104)
Opinion Pieces
- Zintl, Tina / Markus Loewe (2024)
What role can the international community play in Syria’s new beginning?
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 13 December 2024 - Furness, Mark / Tina Zintl (2023)
Germany should host an international donor conference to plan for the aftermath
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 26 October 2023 - Zintl,Tina / Yannick Sudermann (2021)
Reconstruction in Assad’s Syria despite an exclusive social contract?
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 15 March 2021 - Zintl, Tina / Elvis Melia (2020)
Is the pandemic deepening the digital divide?
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Colum of 22 April 2020 - Zintl, Tina (2018)
When will we see the emancipation of Arab trade unions?
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 30 April 2018 - Trautner, Bernhard / Tina Zintl (2018)
What is the renewed military offensive achieving?
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 31 January 2018 - Loewe, Markus / Amirah El-Haddad / Mark Furness / Annabelle Houdret / Bernhard Trautner / Tina Zintl (2016)
A new social contract for the countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 5 December 2016)
Projects
- Stability and Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
- Feminist employment policy: women, structural change and labour markets in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) and Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) regions
- Effects of Cash-for-Work-Programs for Syrian Refugees in Jordan
- Employment promotion by development cooperation
Highlight
What role can the international community play in Syria’s new beginning?
Zintl, Tina / Markus Loewe (2024)
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 13 December 2024
In the Media
Weniger Drogen, mehr Gas: Wie Syriens Wirtschaft dem Chaos entkommen könnte
Tagesanzeiger, Published: 11 December 2024
Highlight
Economic development and barriers to (decent) work for women in SSA and MENA
Stöcker, Alexander / Tina Zintl (2024)
Discussion Paper (16/2024)
Highlight
Moving towards smarter social contracts? Digital transformation as a driver of change in state–society relations in the MENA region
Zintl, Tina / Annabelle Houdret (2024)
in: Mediterranean Politics, first published 23.07.2024