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The book “Human Rights Politics. An introduction” by Michael Krennerich has just been published - also available as Open Access. It provides an introduction to the diversity of topics, actors and institutions in human rights politics and shows how political science and related disciplines can cont...

How does the UN work? What does the work of a diplomat look like? How do States resolve current conflicts of the world? FAUMUN gives you the answer to all these questions. Take on the role of a diplomat and represent a Member State of the UN at the worldwide largest simulation of the United Na...

A panel discussion bringing together political scientists from different subfields in order to address the outcome and significance of this year's European elections took place on 1st July in the FAU Senate Hall as part of the series "The EU before the elections" (organized by Prof. Dr. Sandra Ecker...

On June 18, Philipp Glaser, Youth Information Officer of the Bundeswehr, gave a guest lecture in the Social Studies Education program at FAU's Nuremberg campus.

On June 9, 2024, EU voters elected a new European Parliament. Eurosceptic and populist parties made unprecedented gains across Europe. The fact that the democratic, non-populist center therefore lost ground is an expression of increasing democratic regression in the pan-European context. In this res...

On June 20, 2024, Prof. Enze Han will give a lecture in the Kollegienhaus (14.00-16.00 in room 0.024). He will present his new book on China's role in Southeast Asia (The Ripple Effect: China's Complex Role in Southeast Asia, Cambridge University Press 2024).    

The European elections 2024 raise exciting questions for political scientists. Current forecasts see Eurosceptic and populist parties on the left and right of the political spectrum making significant gains. This is a development across Europe which is currently particularly visible in Germany and A...

The joint project "Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer" (FFVT), which is implemented by, among other institutions, at the FAU Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN), presented its "Global Flight Report 2024" – published by S. Fischer Verla...

Time and again, periods of increased displacement present municipalities with the challenge of providing capacities for accommodating people arriving as quickly as possible. However, capacities are regularly reduced in times of decreasing migration. Upon increases of arriving refugees makeshift solu...

Kant's philosophy of religion is perceived very differently, often skeptically: Some celebrate it, following Heinrich Heine, as the act of an intellectual revolutionary who “decapitated” God. Others criticize Kant's half-heartedness, saying that he did not consistently apply his own sapere aude prin...