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Research group of Laura Seelkopf, Berthold Rittberger, and Bernhard Zangl at the Geschwister Scholl Institute, LMU Munich
When do liberal orders become self-undermining?

@cknill.bsky.social, Andreas Kruck, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf & Bernhard Zangl provide answers to this timely question!

Check out the introduction to their new Special Issue in @jeppjournal.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/1350...
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🏆 German Thesis Award for Dr. Tim Heinkelmann-Wild 🥳

@heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social has been awarded the #DeutscherStudienpreis of the #KörberStiftung for his dissertation on the withdrawal of the USA from int' institutions. He received a 2nd prize of 10,000 Euros in the Social Sciences.
July 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
📢 4.-7.8.: Summer School „Gender in Gesellschaft, Medien und Politik“ der sozialwiss. Fakultät der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, organisiert von
Nora Lege (Ifs), Corinna Lauerer (@ifkw.bsky.social) & @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social.

Alle Interessierten sind herzlich zum Rahmenprogramm eingeladen👇
July 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
What explains the crisis of liberal orders?
At this term‘s Research Colloquium of the Siemens Foundation, Laura Seelkopf and Berthold Rittberger presented an application for an inter-disciplinary DFG SFB “Failing through success? Stabilization-destabilization paradoxes in liberal orders”.
July 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Professor Philipp Rehm (John Hopkins University) visited our institute to share his insights about #inequality, #mobility and the #elections: www.gsi.uni-muenchen.de/lehreinheite...
July 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Der Lehrstuhl für Global Governance and Public Policy (Prof. Bernhard Zangl) sucht ab 01.10.2025 eine Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w/d) (5-8 Wochenstunden). Bewerbungen bis 11.07.2025 an rainer.huelsse@lmu.de
July 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
When and why do states show #solidarity in the face of international disasters?

At today’s Global Politics Colloquium, Philipp Genschel presented “The Politics of International Solidarity” (w/ Marco Binetti & Katren Rogers): a sharp analysis of how compassion, burden-sharing, and strategy interact.
May 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This week, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social (Hamilton College) kicked off our joint colloquium with a presentation on the timely topic "Walking the Moral Tightrope: Federal Civil Servants’ Loyalties, Caution, and Resistance under the Trump Administration"
May 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
When do international negotiators shift from 💪 bargaining to 🤗 deliberation?

How can negation parties reach compromises that are perceived as fair by all sides?
December 16, 2024 at 3:17 PM
📢 Talk by Maurizio Carbone on the EU, Africa, and human rights (16.12. 12ct)

Next Monday, we have the pleasure to hear Maurizio Carbone (@uofglasgow.bsky.social) talking about "Opening the black box of international negotiations: the EU, Africa, and the making of the Samoa Agreement".
December 11, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Trade is increasingly linked to national security concerns. ⚔ But what drives this trend?

Not only governments, but also strong domestic interest groups are pushing for the #geopoliticization of #trade. But they do so in a way that is prone to ineffectiveness and loopholes!
December 3, 2024 at 7:46 AM

Is the #EU a paradise for blame avoidance? 🇪🇺

The answer is not what you think argues Berthold Rittberger at the Europe Conference in Saarbrücken today!
November 29, 2024 at 7:05 AM
📢 Talk by Andreas Dür on the Geopoliticization of Trade Policy (2.12. 12ct)

Next Monday, Andreas Dür (@andduer.bsky.social, Uni Salzburg) will provide insights from his ERC project "The Geopoliticization of Trade Policy" (GEOTRADE) in our Global Politics Colloquium.
November 27, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Women are *more* likely to favor increased defense spending and *not* more likely to support a feminist foreign policy!

These were only some of the interesting insights Shubha Prasad (Hertie School) shared with us from her latest survey on diasporas’ foreign policy preferences in #Germany 🇩🇪
November 21, 2024 at 7:51 AM
2025 is the UN’s International Year of Cooperatives 🇺🇳
In fact, 12% of the earth’s population is involved in 3 million cooperatives.

But why did cooperatives emerge in the first place and how did they spread across the globe? 🌎
November 18, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Is there a populist foreign policy?

"Yes!" is the answer by Sandra Destradi (sdestradi.bsky.social), who offered us exiting insights into her ongoing research on populism and foreign policy.

Get a sneak peak here: doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
October 24, 2024 at 9:44 AM
How are #EU agencies such as #Frontex or #EMA governed? How independent can they act? How #accountable are they?

Berthold Rittberger together with Eva Ruffing, Martin Weinrich, and Arndt Wonka offer a new dataset (doi.org/10.1111/gove...) and theoretical analyses (doi.org/10.1111/rego...).
June 21, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Interested in the discriminatory effects of tax policies?
If you are in #Berlin, join the presentation of Laura Seelkopf who will talk today about "The Gendered Politics of Tax Policy-Making" at the
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, including the effects of #Ehegattensplitting #Tamponsteuer
June 18, 2024 at 8:26 AM
What explains the concurrence of #informal internationalization and unilateral #renationalization?
In their new study, Christian Kreuder-Sonnen & Bernhard Zangl suggest a Political Contest Theory about how cosmopolitans and communitarians struggle over IO authority transfers:
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
June 13, 2024 at 12:00 PM
📣 New Making of National Security project at LMU Munich challenges traditional notions of the 'security state' and explores the complexities of security policymaking in the post-Cold War era from conventional to cyber warfare in 🇮🇳🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇸
Learn more here: www.making-security.gsi.lmu.de
June 10, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Are you interested in the scientific analysis of recent developments in global politics?

Keep up-to-date with the cutting edge research by our team of political scientists at the labs of Laura Seelkopf, Berthold Rittberger, and Bernhard Zangl at LMU Munich.
May 14, 2024 at 8:38 AM