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Sophia Moestrup

Job Title

Senor Program Manager

Organization

National Democratic Institute

Country

USA

Area of Expertise

  • Conflict
  • Gender and constitutions
  • Diversity
  • Customary governance/legal pluralism
  • Human rights
  • Judicial system design
  • Minority issues
  • Participation
  • Power sharing (horizontal/vertical)
  • Religion
  • Security sector

Publications

July 2007: Co-editor of Semi-presidentialism Outside Europe, published by Routledge, New York, together with Robert Elgie, Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland.

July 2006: Lecture on “Semi-presidentialism in Young Democracies: Help or Hindrance?” given at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica (IPSAS), Taipei, Taiwan, July 14.

July 2006: Paper on “Semi-presidentialism in Francophone Africa – Is it Working?” delivered at the 20th World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Fukuoka, Japan, July 9-13, 2006

Nov. 2005: Lecture on “Semi-presidentialism in Mongolia,” given on November 28, 2005, for a lecture series on Politics and Institutions in the Post-Communist Sphere at the Havighurst Center, University of Miami, Ohio.

Oct. 2005: Proposal accepted by Manchester University Press for an edited volume entitled Semi-presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe. I will be co-editor with Robert Elgie.

Sept. 2005: Paper on “Semi-presidentialism in Young Democracies” delivered at the American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting, Sept. 2005, Washington, DC.

April 27, 2004: Paper on semi-presidentialism in Haiti presented at seminar on “The Role of Constitutions in Political Transitions: Semi-presidentialism in Palestine, Bulgaria and Haiti,” hosted by The Institute for Global and International Studies, The Elliott School, The George Washington University.

Jan. 2000 – Dec. 2002: Teaching assistant, Department of Political Science, The George Washington University. Courses taught: Introduction to Comparative Politics, Introduction to International Relations.

Summer 1999: Article on democratization in Mali and Niger published by the British journal Democratization, Summer 1999 issue, Vol. 6, No. 2 (“The Role of Actors and Institutions: The Difficulties of Democratic Survival in Mali and Niger,” pp.171-186).

Aug. 1991: Article on agricul¬tural reforms in China after 1978, published by the Danish journal Den ny Verden, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 76-86, published by the Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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