Institut für Politikwissenschaft
At the Chair of Transnational Governance we study the emergence, functioning and legitimation of political authority beyond the nation-state. Our understanding of governance is rather broad and includes activities of both public and private institutions.
The chair for Transnational Governance at TU Darmstadt was established with funding from the German “Excellence Initiative”. The field of Transnational Governance not only includes the international activities of states and intergovernmental organizations but also those of non-state actors, such as transnational corporations and NGOs. Much of our empirical analysis is systematically related to normative issues in international political theory, in particular democratic theory. We also have a keen interest in the disciplinary history of international relations and the history of international thought more broadly.
Members of our research group regularly teach seminars on international organizations, transnational civil society, North-South relations and questions of development. In addition, we cover issues from the field of international political theory and theories of international relations. These topics are particularly prominent in our MA program in “International Studies” that is organized in cooperation with Goethe-University Frankfurt and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF).
Prospects for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
May 22, 2023
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)
New research project on „Terminological innovations in the field of international relations: emergence and diffusion”
April 24, 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.
Standards des Regierens
November 07, 2022
Neues Graduiertenkolleg am Fachbereich bewilligt
Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) hat ein neues Graduiertenkolleg am Fachbereich 2 bewilligt, das zum 1. April 2023 seine Arbeit aufnehmen wird.
New article published on the ideology of right-wing populism
November 02, 2022
Jens Steffek and Yannick Laßhof have published a new article on the intellectual history of American populism.