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FAU’s Institute of Political Science in Erlangen will hire a postdoc for 30 months to contribute both empirically and theoretically to a better understanding of the research sector’s role in democratization and autocratization processes. A human rights related research focus is particularly welcome....

International scholarly collaboration is of great importance for understanding global developments. Researchers at FAU’s Institute of Political Science have been collaborating with the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden for five years. They participate...

What does it mean if French president Macron refuses to rule out sending Western troops to Ukraine? On "Deutschlandfunk Kultur", Prof. Dr. Eva Marlene Hausteiner comments on the announcement - and on the turmoil it has caused among friends and allies.

Together with her colleagues Boris Kühn and Prof. Dr. Hannes Schammann from the University of Hildesheim, Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel has published a new study which has been granted funding by the Federal Commissioner for Integration. The study "Integration als Pflichtaufgabe: Holzweg oder Königsweg zu ...

On 21 February 2024, Prof. Dr Katrin Kinzelbach took part in a public hearing in the German Bundestag as an expert. The Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment discussed the internationalisation of research and higher education. In their joint motion on the subject, the SPD, Bündn...

As part of the BMBF-funded project "Academic Freedom in the People's Republic of China (China)", Dr Alexandra Kaiser recently published an introduction to the Chinese higher education system. This introductory book sheds light on key aspects of academic freedom of teaching and research in China and ...

Do you have an open mind for human rights? Our M.A. Human Rights is an interdisciplinary and international postgraduate degree programme cherished by students from all over the world. We have so far had the pleasure of teaching students from 60 countries, spanning all continents. The programme addre...

BA students from the 3rd semester onwards are kindly invited to participate in this important student survey. You should have received a personalized link to the survey via your FAU email address. For more information, see: How satisfied are you with your studies? The CHE survey has begun. › Institu...

The Institute of Political Science is now represented on Instagram. Every three months, a different chair, professorship or research area takes over the channel and keeps you up to date with the latest news from the Institute. → @politikfau on Instagram

On January 11, the DFG Research Unit "Aitiologien. Figuren und Funktionen begründenden Erzählens in Wissenschaft und Literatur", in which Prof. Dr. Eva Marlene Hausteiner and Marina Solntseva from the Erlangen Chair of Political Theory and History of Ideas are involved with the sub-project "Imperial...