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FAU’s Institute of Political Science in Erlangen will hire a postdoc. More Information Continue

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). Continue

In May, FAU’s Eric Voegelin Library acquired valuable new research material collected over decades by Prof Dr Jürgen Gebhardt and Prof Dr Klaus Vondung. The Library is located at FAU’s Institute of Political Science, at the Chair of Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Ideas, in Erlangen and ... Continue

The article "Military dictatorship as the ‘reign of the mightier’" by Dr Alexander Kruska was published by Routledge Continue

On August 24th, 2021, from 3 to 5pm Prof. Dr. Stefan Fröhlich can be seen on PHOENIX commenting on the G7 meeting on Afghanistan. Continue

Dr. Samuel Zeitlin (University of Cambridge) will conduct a joint research project at the Chair of Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Ideas in the framework of the Visiting Professorship Program at the invitation of and together with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eva Odzuck. In addition, Dr. Zeitlin will... Continue

In seiner Sitzung am 14.07.2021 nahm der Fakultätsrat der Philosophischen Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie der FAU die Habilitationsschrift von Dr. Eva Odzuck, die als Universitätsprofessorin gegenwärtig den Lehrstuhl für Politische Philosophie, Theorie und Ideengeschichte vertritt, an. Die Habilitationsschrift mit dem Titel „Keimbahneingriffe im Namen der Freiheit? Continue

The monograph "Free and fair elections?" (2021) by Prof. Dr. Michael Krennerich has now also been published in English: "Free and fair elections? Standards, Curiosities, Manipulations“. At the same time, the study "Wahlrecht von wohnlosen Menschen" ("Voting Rights of Homeless People", available in G... Continue

The Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN) of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg is seeking to hire a research fellow “Equal Partnerships – African Intermediary Cities as Actors and Partners in Urban Migration Governance”  More information can be found here. Continue

The International Political Science Association’s digitalized World Congress takes place from July 10 to 15. Five political scientists from the research sections of Middle East Politics and Comparative Politics will represent FAU’s Political Science Department. Miriam Bohn, Thomas Demmelhuber, Katha... Continue