Kai Striebinger is a student of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Before, he studied at the “Premier Cycle Franco-Allemand de Sciences Po Paris” and received a Bachelor Degree at the Freie Universität Berlin. His fields of interest are regional organizations, especially in Africa, and he writes his MA-thesis on the “legalization of democracy standards in ECOWAS, SADC, and the EAC.” Since April 2010, he works as a research assistant in the SFB B2 project.