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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...

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The project “How to read and write” at the Institutes of Political Science and Sociology develops an e-learning module for FAU’s Social Studies Education Programme.

The Regional Agency for Civic Education Baden-Württemberg (lpb bw) releases a double issue of its journal Bürger & Staat celebrating the German unity in 2020. Erlangen’s Erik Vollmann contributes an analysis of the support for democracy in Eastern and Western Germany. Not unifying or unified ...

As the result of a two-day workshop in Gothenburg in March 2020, Miriam Bohn and Erik Vollmann both research fellows in the DFG funded project "Decentralization in the Arab World: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan from a comparative perspective" contributed to the latest publication of the “Program...

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International Workshop „Hobbes and Gender“. Registration: eva.odzuck@fau.de. More information: Poster (PDF) und Program (PDF)

Betty Kaari Murungi is a lawyer with almost 30 years of experience on a national, regional and international level, and for over 10 years she has been gathering experiences in the field of management and governance of NGOs. After her law studies and a year of research at the human rights program in ...