Ethnisierung und De-Ethnisierung des Politischen.
Aushandlungen um Inklusion und Exklusion im andinen und südasiatischen Raum.
Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka und Prof. Dr. Christian Büschges

 

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)

 

German Social Policy: History - Ideas - Comparative Perspectives.  
Arranging and editing a translation of "Geschichte der Sozialpolitik in Deutschland seit 1945", Band 1, and "Grundlagen der Sozialpolitik" (ed. Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung und Bundesarchiv, Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2001) into English (title: "German Social Policy: History - Ideas - Comparative Perspectives", Springer Publishers)

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Lutz Leisering

 

Global Perceptions of Inequality in World Society.

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

 

Media & Citizenship: 
Transnational Television Cultures Reshaping Political Identities in the European Union.

Projekt leaders: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Volkmer, Prof. Dr. Mathias Albert

 

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 Construction of Political Spaces by Semantics of In- and Exclusion: 
Development and Function of the Term "International Community" in Politics and in the Law of Nations.

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Mathias Albert

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