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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...

Dr. Samuel Zeitlin (University of Cambridge) will conduct a joint research project at the Chair of Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Ideas in the framework of the Visiting Professorship Program at the invitation of and together with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eva Odzuck. In addition, Dr. Zeitlin will...

In seiner Sitzung am 14.07.2021 nahm der Fakultätsrat der Philosophischen Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie der FAU die Habilitationsschrift von Dr. Eva Odzuck, die als Universitätsprofessorin gegenwärtig den Lehrstuhl für Politische Philosophie, Theorie und Ideengeschichte vertritt, an. Die Habilitationsschrift mit dem Titel „Keimbahneingriffe im Namen der Freiheit?

The monograph "Free and fair elections?" (2021) by Prof. Dr. Michael Krennerich has now also been published in English: "Free and fair elections? Standards, Curiosities, Manipulations“. At the same time, the study "Wahlrecht von wohnlosen Menschen" ("Voting Rights of Homeless People", available in G...