Main Areas of Research

The Department of Political Science is active in all major fields of political science. It is dedicated to innovative and problem-focused research areas and offers various options for specialisation in the study of political science. The departmental research focus is on the transformation of governance, statehood and democracy in different policy areas, geographical regions and political spaces.

Research Groups at the Department

• Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity (CeSCoS)
  
  
• Critical State, Governance and Globalisation Studies
  
  
• East European Studies
  
  
• EIF – Centre for European Integration Research
  
  
• Gender and Politics
  
  
• IN:EX - Politics of inclusion and exclusion
  
  
• International Politics
  
  
• International Political Ecology
  
  
• Latin America
  
  
• Political Theory
  
  
• Visual Studies

Main Research Areas of the Faculty