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Professor Sabine Carey will participate in the panel discussion on the War in the Ukraine “Krieg in der Ukraine – Was bedeutet er für die Zukunft Europas?” on Friday, 11 March 2022, 5 – 6:30 pm at the University of Mannheim.  Get more information on the panel here and find out how to register.

Christoph Steinert successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “A conceptual and empirical study of political imprisonment” on February 22, 2022. The examination committee consisted of Thomas Bräuninger, Simon Hug (Université de Genève), and Sabine Carey. Congratulations, Christoph!

A fully revised version of 2016 article on pro-government militias (PGMs) and conflict is now available online. Sabine Carey, Neil Mitchell and Adam Scharpf explain the role of PGMs in the context of armed conflict. Using new data on PGMs in counterinsurgency wars between 1950-2005, the article ...

Felix Olsowski participated at the 5th International Conference on The Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship, held from 24–25 February 2022. After a one-year break due to the pandemic situation, the conference which is hosted by the University of Münster und brings together economists and ...

Die Konfliktforscherin Sabine Carey hat das weltweit erste Online-Verzeichnis mit umfassenden Informationen zu über 500 regierungsfreundlichen Milizen aus der ganzen Welt entwickelt.

Professor Sabine Carey is organising an informal zoom session on 23 Feb 2022 at 10am CET for female political sciences students who are potentially considering pursuing a PhD. If you are interested, please email us at info4female.students@uni-mannheim.de by 20 February. Please briefly mention ...

Cosima Meyer's Paper on teaching methods “Bringing the World to the Classroom: Teaching Statistics and Programming in a Project-Based Setting” has been published by Cambridge University Press in Political Science and Politics. You can read the article here.

Christoph Steinert will advise the International Institute for Race, Equality and Human Rights (Race & Equality), an NGO which among other things advocates for political prisoners,  on identifying political prisoners in Latin America. The NGO wants to redefine the concept internally and suggest ...

Congratulations to Prof. Katrin Paula, now at the Technical University of Munich, for  her third price for her PhD dissertation, which she completed at the University of Mannheim. The Academy made the following announcement on their website: ““The Academy of Sociology is proud to highlight an ...

On 21 July 2021, Cosima Meyer successfully defended her doctoral dissertation „Power Struggle and Spark of Hope – The Political Elite and Post-Civil War Politics“. The examination committee consisted of  Sabine Carey, Nikolay Marinov, and Anne Pintsch (University of Agder). Cosima has already ...