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War made the state, and the state made war” is Charles Tilly’s famous dictum that has become highly influential both in comparative macrosociology and in International Relations. However, its applicability to warfare in the Global South is controversial. While some argue that the relationship remain...

Interested in studying human rights? Look no further! We run an international, interdisciplinary MA programme covering human rights in their legal, political and philosophical dimensions. See our call for applications and visit our website to find out more about the programme, and meet our teachers ...

One year after the military coup in Myanmar the Institute of Political Science is organizing together with the Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures (SDAC) the Symposium „Hard Choices for the Democracy Movement in Myanmar and for the Myanmar Diaspora“. More information about participation ...

Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach gave a presentation at the conference Fundamental Academic Values in the European Higher Education Area on 28.10.2021. This international conference was organised by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The...

FAU’s interdisciplinary MA Human Rights opens the 2021/22 academic year with an inaugural talk by Dr. Harsh Mander from India. Students of other degree programs are cordially invited to attend. The talk entitled „Dangers to Democracy, Human Rights and Freedom in India“ will take place on 25.10. at 6...

Political Science has often been blind to political developments and changes beyond political centers as it focused almost exclusively on the national level. A new edited volume from the DFG-funded project on Decentralization in the Arab world at Erlangen’s Institute of Political Science now helps to diminish these caveats. The authors of the contribution widen their scientific scrutiny to subnational governance, informal politics and the importance of peripheral areas. Based on extensive fieldwork, the articles in this Open Access volume close important gaps in the vastly underresearched area of comparative decentralization reforms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

In May, FAU’s Eric Voegelin Library acquired valuable new research material collected over decades by Prof Dr Jürgen Gebhardt and Prof Dr Klaus Vondung. The Library is located at FAU’s Institute of Political Science, at the Chair of Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Ideas, in Erlangen and ...

The article "Military dictatorship as the ‘reign of the mightier’" by Dr Alexander Kruska was published by Routledge

On August 24th, 2021, from 3 to 5pm Prof. Dr. Stefan Fröhlich can be seen on PHOENIX commenting on the G7 meeting on Afghanistan.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Fröhlich on the press conference with Angela Merkel on the current situation in Afghanistan   On August 18, 202  Prof. Dr. Stefan Fröhlich comments from 1pm to 2.15 pm the press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Kaja Kallas (minister-president of Estonia) l...