News

Professor Sabine Carey is organising an informal zoom session on 23 Feb 2021 at 10am CET for female political sciences students who are potentially considering pursuing a PhD. The goals of this about one hour long session are: to provide you with some basic information about the format of PhD ...

Cosima Meyer's and Dennis Hammerschmidt's (both University of Mannheim) new publication A Pledged Community? Using Community Detection to Analyze Autocratic Cooperation in UN Co-sponsorship Networks analyzes autocratic cooperation networks at the example of UNGA co-sponsorship. Using the Leiden ...

In their new publication “Money Makes the World Go Frowned – Analyzing the Impact of Chinese Foreign Aid on States’ Sentiment Using Natural Language Processing”, Dennis Hammerschmidt and Cosima Meyer (both University of Mannheim) analyze how new aid donors affect the geo-political and international ...

Why are journalists killed for the work they do – and why are journalists predominately murdered in institutional democracies, where they should enjoy particular protection? Sabine Carey and Anita Gohdes research this question with new detailed data on killings of journalists globally, identifying ...

Christoph Valentin Steinert. 2020. Who Is a Political Prisoner? Journal of Global Security Studies, ogaa052, doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogaa052 This study sheds light on the conceptualization of political prisoners identifying five key dimensions of disagreement. The author highlights that the ...

Anna-Lena Hönig gave a virtual guest lecture on “Network Analysis in Political Science” at the American University of Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) on December 9, 2020.  

Sabine Carey presented initial insights from a joint project with Jürgen Brandsch at the School of Global & Public Affairs at IE Madrid on 4 December 2020. The project evaluates how borderization affects individuals’ perceptions of their personal security. Using data from a face-to-face survey ...

As part of the first “Mini-Conference – Summer School for Women in Political Methodology” (organized by Anita Gohdes, Denise Traber, Malu Gatto, and Theresa Gessler), Cosima Meyer and Katrin Paula presented insights on package development with R as well as their own R packages (overviewR for getting ...

Anna-Lena Hönig was invited to participate in the workshop “New Research Projects on Russia and Post-Soviet Countries”. The workshop takes place 9–11 November 2020. It is organized by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius's “Trajectories of Change” program  and the German Historical Institute ...

Anna-Lena Hönig is presenting at the workshop “Beyond Cooperation and Competition: NGO-NGO-Interactions in Global Politics”. The workshop takes place 26–28 October 2020 and is organized by Käte Hamburger Kolleg/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the ...