This interdisciplinary course provides an in-depth introduction to the international politics of the Middle East. The engagement with crucial empirical understandings of the region including transnational ideologies (e.g. pan-Arabism, pan-Islamism)...
A study of the various aspects, policies and levels of the political structures, the formation, and development of the European Union, as well as Germany’s role in the process of the European Integration. Special emphasis will be put upon the...
This foreign policy course offers a systematic overview on European Union relations with the Muslim World and Muslim Communities, including inside Europe, on the periphery of Europe as well as beyond Europe. It encompasses issues of security...
This seminar aims at providing an introduction to the main concepts in contemporary security studies, so as to propose a framework for understanding key aspects in crisis management. Security used to be conceptualized within the narrow frame of state...
TThe ongoing political crisis in Ukraine and the unilateral annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by Russia and the
increasingly troubled relationship between Turkey and the EU/US clearly show that the end of the Cold War did not
lead to a single...
This course will introduce students to the political and legal nature of the European Union, the history of the European integration, the political system of the European Union, and its public policies, as well as the current issues of democracy...
This course focuses on Chilean political and economic issues relating to regional trade organizations within the global context from a Chilean viewpoint. The course will include guest lecturers and visits to local representatives. It begins by...
Human rights do not only evoke a set of indispensable liberal freedoms but they also imply an agenda for making the world a better place, a place in which, after a long history of struggles, the dignity of each human being will enjoy secure...
Political psychology aims to decipher the underlying reasons for our political convictions, how we arrive at them, and how we choose to act on them. An inherently interdisciplinary field, it is thus well positioned to address political questions both...
This course will explore the process of the European integration in its historical dimension and will analyze its cultural, social, political, and economic causes and effects as well as the obstacles it still faces. The aim of the course is also to...