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News

Negotiating marine biodiversity science advice: a new epistemic order for areas beyond national jurisdiction?

14.10.2026 Publications

In their new article, published in the journal “International Affairs”, Simon J. Fellinger and Alice Vadrot are looking at epistemic selectivities inherent in the current reshaping of global environmental knowledge in the BBNJ negotiations.

The Vanishing Mediator: Towards a sociology of financial intermediation

08.10.2026 Publications

In a review article in the journal “Finance and Society”, Dmitrii M. Zhikharevich reflects on the emerging sociology of financial intermediation, focusing on three contributions by Stefan Leins, Horacio Ortiz and Yuval Millo, Crawford Spence and James Valentine.

Toward a wellbeing state? Reimagining welfare politics for the 21st century

08.10.2026 Publications

Viktoria Huegel and Alexander Kurunczi have contributed to a Critical Exchange in the journal “Contemporary Political Theory”. The exchange emerged from the workshop “Counterstrategies to Authoritarianism”, which took place at the Department of Political Science in 2024.

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Events

The Research Group Latin America invites to a panel discussion at the CEU.

Green Crime in the Amazon: Drugs, Deforestation, and the Question of Shared Responsibility

16.10.2026

12:30

Events | Latin America

Closing event of the research project “The Cultural Political Economy of Bitcoin in the Global South” (BITELSA) with result presentation and panel discussion.