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On 13 March 2025, the team behind the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) project released the 2025 AFI Update. The annual report, a collaborative effort by political scientists at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, provides ...

Four members of the Institute, Professor Dr Dr h.c. Heiner Bielefeldt, Prof Dr Marco Bünte, Prof Dr Thomas Demmelhuber and Prof Dr Katrin Kinzelbach are Fellows of the newly founded Bavarian Scientific Alliance for Peace, Conflict and Security Research. This alliance combines approaches from the soc...

On February 7, students from Erlangen and Würzburg discussed the forthcoming book Der demokratische Horizont(Suhrkamp) with Viennese political theorist Prof. Dr. Oliver Marchart. We would like to thank the Würzburg students for their hospitality and Oliver Marchart for his fascinating insights into the writing process!

Last September,  Antonia Thies, doctoral candidate in the DFG Research Training Group on 'Sentimentality in Literature, Culture, and Politics' embarked on her second of three field researches to the Gulf, this time to Saudi Arabia. Embedded within the research activities of the Chair of Middle East ...