Tag: DFG

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 ...

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...

Dr. Lars Pelke is funded by FAU's Emerging Talent Initiative (ETI) for the period July 2023 - June 2024. The ETI program supports excellent young researchers in applying for external funding for their research projects. Dr. Pelke will employ the ETI funding to develop a research proposal to apply fo...

As part of the DFG research group "Aitiologies", Prof. Eva Hausteiner's chair will be researching a narrative pattern of current Russian imperialism that is central to the war in Ukraine: so-called "neo-Eurasianism". Neo-Eurasianists claim an everlasting conflict between "Eurasia" and "the West", my...

The FAU’s Emerging Talent Initiative (ETI) will support Dr Johannes Jüde during the period July 2022 – June 2023. The program assists excellent young researchers in applying for external funding for their research project. Dr Jüde will employ the ETI-grant to develop a research proposal to apply for...

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).