Expatriate Managers:
A New Cosmopolitan Elite? Habitus, Everyday Practices, and Networks

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Ursula Mense-Petermann

 

Geopolitics of Need.
The Production of Geopolitical Images through Aid Organizations.

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Mathias Albert (Bielefeld), Prof. Dr. Paul Reuber (Münster)

 

Global Perceptions of Inequality in World Society.

Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Mathias Albert, Dr. Martin Koch

 

„Going Global“ or „Short-Term Adventures“? The Conditions and Consequences of the Globalization of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Ursula Mense-Petermann

 

Microdynamics of Political Communication in World Society.
The Social Life of the Democracy Concept in two Islamic States

Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Dr. Eva Gerharz, Dr. Christian Meyer

 

Observing the World.
The Contribution of International Statistics and UN World Conferences to the Rise of a Global Comparative Order, 1949-2009.

Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Bettina Heintz

 

Politik der Besonderheit.
Normative Herausforderungen demokratischen Selbstregierens und politischer Integration in pluralistischen Gesellschaften

Project leader: PD Dr. Oliver Flügel-Martinsen

 

Social Security as a Human Right. The Global Construction and
Diffusion of Civic Minima. 
(FLOOR = Financial Assistance, Land Policy, and Global Social
Rights)

Project leaders: Prof. Lutz Leisering, PhD, Prof. Dr. Benjamin Davy, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Davy

 

The discursive construction of conflict and international organizational decision-making processes between normative frameworks of peacebuilding and securitization - the case of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI)

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Mathias Albert