Felix S. Bethke is a researcher at the Cologne Centre for Comparative Politics and an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Development and Peace. Previously, he worked as a postdoc in a research project on nonviolent resistance and democratization at the University of Duisburg and was a postdoc fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research. Felix received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Greifswald. His current research focuses on how civil resistance influences political developments. His work has been published in various outlets including Journal of Peace Research and Journal of International Relations and Development.