Tag: Demmelhuber

As part of her doctoral project in the field of environmental policy in Saudi Arabia, Laura Schuhn (research group Prof. Dr. Thomas Demmelhuber) took part in COP28 in Dubai. Around 70.000 delegates from 200 countries as well as representatives from business and civil society negotiated measures to m...

In summer 2022, the Human Rights Subcommittee decided to prepare a Recommendation to the EU Council, the Commission and the HRVP (Josep Borrell) on how to respond more effectively to undemocratic elections in autocracies. To support the rapporteur (MEP Nacho Sánchez Amor), the Human Rights Subcommit...

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).

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...