Vladyslav Andrushko, a Ukrainian Ph.D. candidate formerly based at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv will join the RTG “Standards of Governance” on 1 October 2023.

The German research foundation (DFG) has approved an interdisciplinary research project on political and academic discourses in the field of international relations.

Prof. Marcus Müller from the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies and Prof. Jens Steffek from the Institute of Political Science will direct this research project together. The aim of the project is to analyse with corpus-linguistic methods how exactly, and to what extent, terminological innovations from academic discourses spread to the language of politics. The project will start in the autumn of 2023 and has a planned duration of three years.

Monday, 22 May 2023, 18:00 S1/05/22 (TU Darmstadt)

The Research Training Group “Standards of Governance” is inviting to a public lecture by Peter M. Haas (University of Massachusetts)

In der zweiten Märzhälfte zieht das Institut für Politikwissenschaft von der Landwehrstraße in die sanierten Räumlichkeiten im Darmstädter Residenzschloss.

Jens Steffek and Yannick Laßhof have published a new article on the intellectual history of American populism.

On 21 October 2022, citizens from nine EU countries gathered at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels to participate in focus group discussions of the HEUREC project.

In the week of 24 to 28 October, Prof. Ira Wagman (Carleton University) will visit the institute in the framework of the EU-Canada exchange programme.

Together with Gunther Hellmann from Goethe University Frankfurt, Jens Steffek just published an edited volume on the praxis of international politics in the „Bristol Studies in International Theory“ book series.

Prof. Steffek leitet ein von der Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung gefördertes Forschungsprojekt zu Leben und Werk des liberalen russischen Pazifisten Jacques Novicow (1849-1912)

Ein Interview mit Prof. Dr. Jens Steffek zum Ukrainekrieg und dem sich verschärfenden Systemkonflikt zwischen der liberalen Demokratie und autokratischen Regierungen findet sich in der heutigen Ausgabe (3. März 2022, S. 24) des Darmstädter Echo sowie online. (Link)