Ariam Macias-Weller, M.A.

Contact Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Institute of Political Science Bergheimer Straße 58 69115 Heidelberg  Phone: +49-6221-54-284 E-Mail: ariam.macias@ipw.uni-heidelberg.de Room-No.: 03-010 Online-Office: heiCONF Office hours: Tuesday 16-17 by appointment.

Ariam Macias-Weller (born Ariam Macias Herrera) is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science at the Heidelberg University and currently works as a research fellow in the 
project, “(Un-) healthy Civil-Military Relations? Militarization of State Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America and Asia-Pacific," funded by the VolkswagenStiftung. 

Ariam’s dissertation focuses on the role of the military in the process of democratic backsliding in Latin America.  Her research interests extend into the topics of civil-military relations, comparative politics, autocratization, democratization, security sector reform, and political violence with a primary focus on the region of Latin America. 

Ariam ascertained a B.A. in International Relations and Global Studies as well as in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. She went on to complete a M.A. in Political Science with a specialization in Comparative Politics and a minor in History at the Heidelberg University in 2019. 

For additional information, please refer to her curriculum vitae here.
 

Publications

Croissant, Aurel, David Kuehn, Ariam Macias-Weller, and David Pion-Berlin. “Militarisation of COVID-19 Responses and Autocratisation: A Comparative Study of Eight Countries in Asia-Pacific and Latin America.” GIGA Working Pa- pers. Hamburg: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), June 2023.

Croissant, Aurel, and Ariam Macias Herrera. 2022. “Ungesunde Zivil-Militärische Beziehungen? Militär Und Pande- miebekämpfung in Lateinamerika.” In Staat, Rechtsstaat Und Demokratie: Konzeptionelle Und Aktuelle Diskussio- nen in Der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft. Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

Macias Herrera, Ariam and Aurel Croissant. "Mapping Military Roles in COVID-19 Responses in Latin America – Contours, Causes and Consequences." HCIAS Working Paper, No. 2, Special Series 1: Covid-19 Pandemic in Ibero- America, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, February 2022.