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The annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) took place in Vancouver, Canada this year. The conference's theme was 'Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times'. FAU Professor Katrin Kinzelbach presented a paper on 'The Republic of China’s Role in Shaping U...

The “long summer of migration” is marking its tenth anniversary. Angela Merkel's widely quoted statement “We can do it,” which she made (for the first time) at the Federal Press Conference on August 31, 2015, became a leitmotif of integration policy and the associated social debate on the reception ...

In their essay on the Eric Voegelin Library, Dr. Eno Trimçev, the library’s director, and Dr. Łukasz Święcicki (University of Siedlce) introduce this lesser-known resource of European Voegelin research. The core of the Eric Voegelin Library – which in total houses five separate collections – consis...

Over 3500 participants attended the annual congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Seoul, among them parts of the Institute’s faculty. Lars Lott presented a paper on the connection between autocratization and its effects on universalism and the provision of social polic...

At an international human rights conference jointly organized by the University of Freiburg (FRIAS) and the Gladstein Familiy Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach participated in a panel discussion and gave a presentation on the Academic Freedom Index....

What is the state of Erlangen's climate policy six years after the city council declared climate emergency? On July 1, this question was the focus of a discussion on the film “Zusammen”, which portrays Erlangen's participation process. The event was organized by the Chair of Comparative Politics at ...

Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can the resilience capacity of democracies be operationalized and measured? In the recently published article “Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis”, published Political Studies, Aurel Croissant (Heidelberg University) and Lars Lott (FAU) examine how democratic resilience capacity can be operationalized and measured and to what extent it strengthens the resilience of democracies to autocratization.

On 24 June, in collaboration with FAU's Center for Human Rights and the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, we hosted a talk by Harvard professor and FAU honorary doctor Kathryn Sikkink on the emergence of individual criminal accountability for war crimes, mass atrocities and human rights vi...

A new essay by Dr. Alexander Kruska, entitled “As gently as the ripe apple falls from the tree”: Political Rule, Rightful Government, and the Founding of the American Republic in Prussian Old-Conservatism, has recently been published. The piece appears in the edited volume Representations and Uses ...

In the context of current debates on migration and asylum, Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel has been approached by several media outlets on her expertise. We have compiled a selection of articles (in German) here: Interviews: „Hintergrund zum Weltflüchtlingstag – Gespräch mit Prof. Petra Bendel“ (BR2,...