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07.05.2026

The project “International Security in the Post-Conflict Context: A Comparative Analysis of Western Balkan States” has received funding from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK).

We are pleased to announce that the project titled “International Security in the Post-Conflict Context: A Comparative…

23.04.2026

Cologne Center for Comparative Politics: Lecture Series (Summer Term 2026)

Tuesday‘s 2pm 3:30pm at 211 IBW 3.40 (from May 12th to July 21st)

23.04.2026

New article published in Competition & Change

Michael Schwan, Christine Trampusch and Jonas L. Horn on "Industry 4.0 Inc.—Mergers and acqui-
sitions and the digital…

04.02.2026

New article published in Mediterranean Politics

Şenol Arslantaş and Düzgün Arslantaş on "Social democracy between decline and resilience: PASOK and CHP in comparative…

29.01.2026

New article published in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

Özgür Salmanoğ on "Presidential decrees as instruments of autocratization: the case of Turkey’s institutional…

26.01.2026

Vacancy Announcement: Studentische oder Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (WHB) als Assistenz der Geschäftsführung (m/w/d)

Der Lehrstuhl für International Vergleichende Politische Ökonomie und Wirtschaftssoziologie (Professorin Dr. Christine…

22.01.2026

Presentation at the Environmental Politics Seminar Series (EPOSS)

Paper: "Regulating Sustainability Reporting in the European Union: Firm Preferences in Corporate Sustainability…

08.01.2026

New book chapter published in Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government

Dr. Michael Kemmerling on "Platform capitalism" in: Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government

07.01.2026

Vacancy Announcement: Tutor*innen im SoSe 26

Tutor*innen gesucht für das SoSe 2026 für die Vorlesung „Einführung in die Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft:…

05.01.2026

New article published in European Journal of Political Research

Elena Semenova, Keith Dowding and André Kaiser on "How constitutional and institutional rules affect nonpartisan…