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"COVID-19 has affected almost all areas of integration policy. Achievements that we have made in the past six, seven years are in danger if we don’t take appropriate countermeasures,” a research project finds conducted by the research team on Migration, Displacement and Integration (MFI) at the Inst...

Dr. Johannes Jüde will participate in the annual conference of the International Studies Association (ISA) "ISA 2021 Annual Convention - Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics" from April 6 to 9. There, he will present his current research projects in two lec...

A 30-month postdoctoral position is available at the Institute of Political Science as part of the research project Academic Freedom, Globalised Scholarship and the Rise of Authoritarian China. More information at jobs.fau.de.

The team of Research on Migration, Displacement and Integration (MFI) under the direction of Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel is pleased to join the Institute of Political Science as of April 1, 2021. The area is dedicated to research and teaching on current migration, flight and integration processes at the ...

A new article by Prof. Balleis has appeared in the publication "One and one equals eleven" of FAU and San José State University (SJSU). The article about the Medical Valley Center Erlangen is available as PDF.

On 11 March 2021, the updated Academic Freedom Index was published. It covers five dimensions of academic freedom and is the result of international cooperation. Around 2000 researchers from all over the world contributed assessments. Times Higher Education reported. The German Academic Exchange Ser...

The Federal Academy for Security Policy is currently advertising two project positions for Master's students interested in security policy who would like to gain professional practice in an interdepartmental working environment within the framework of an optional practical year. The students will...

The Brexit is a European crisis that majorly influenced political campaigning for the election of the European Parliament in 2019. But discursive battles were fought not only in the political arena but also on twitter. A new interdisciplinary contribution with co-authors Erik Vollmann and Tim Griebe...

They are rare and left out in the discussion of contemporary authoritarian regimes. Prof. Bünte has published an article in the journal Government and Opposition, which discusses tutelary interference as a spectrum of possible and not mutually exclusive roles which tutelary powers perform, depending...

The Chair of Middle East Politics and Society has launched a new research project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Within the framework of the call "Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society", the project proposal on "Global autocratic collaboration in times of...