Welcome to the Chair of International Politics

How can cooperation and conflict in the international world of states be explained? How important are and have been international organizations and treaties in the history of international relations? How does international cooperation contribute to answering or even solving global problems such as war, poverty, inequality, environmental degradation, climate change, gender discrimination or food security?

The Chair of International Politics addresses all these questions and many more in its teaching and research activities. It is our concern to facilitate well-founded theoretical discussions in research and teaching, to convey and further develop different methodological approaches to the study of International Politics, to work in classical fields of research and to set new empirical accents. Accordingly, the following topics are at the centre of the chair's research activities: Impact and transformation of international organizations; the role of non-state actors (NGOs, corporations, academics, foundations, and many more); the often turbulent biographies of international norms; and empirical topics from the fields of peace and conflict research, global social policy (especially development and environmental policy), and human rights issues.