Christian Gläßel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hertie School's Centre for International Security in Berlin and principal investigator of the project "The Anatomy of the Authoritarian Security Apparatus," funded by the German Research Foundation. His research examines how authoritari...

Christian Gläßel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hertie School's Centre for International Security in Berlin and principal investigator of the project "The Anatomy of the Authoritarian Security Apparatus," funded by the German Research Foundation. His research examines how authoritarian regimes work and why they fail, with a focus on political violence, propaganda, and conspiracies. Adam Scharpf is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. His research explores how political regimes--particularly autocracies and dictatorships--produce loyalty and allegiance, both at the national and international levels.