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European Union (EU)

Dr. Helmut Philipp Aust
Professor of Law

Department of Law
Public Law

Van't-Hoff.-Str. 8, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • International law
  • Human rights
  • German and foreign constitutional law

Dr. Arnd Bauerkämper
Professor of History

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Berlin School for Comparative European History

Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Resistance against the Nazi regime
  • Organizations of the Nazi dictatorship
  • Warfare
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Policy toward Jews
  • Hitler’s personality
  • Broad internal and external policies of the “Third Reich”
  • Relationship of political institutionalization and social anchoring of Europe
  • Economic, social, and cultural interactions
  • History of the EEC, EC, and EU
  • Fascism in Europe (1918 - 1945)
  • Dealing with National Socialism
  • Fascism and collaboration in Europe after 1945
  • History of the GDR
  • Historical terrorism research
  • History of memories of the Second World War

Dr. Tanja Börzel
Jean Monnet Chair and Director of the Center for European Integration

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for European Integration

Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Treaties of Rome
  • EU enlargement
  • European environmental policy
  • Institutional structure under the Treaty of Lisbon
  • EU Presidency
  • “EU foreign affairs”

Dr. Christian Calliess
Professor of Law

Department of Law
Public Law, European Law

Boltzmannstr. 3, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • European law
  • European politics
  • Constitutional law
  • Environmental law
  • Environmental policy
  • Human rights

Dr. Jürgen Gerhards
Professor of Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Macrosociology

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural similarities and differences between EU member states and candidate states
  • Cultural sociology
  • Public sociology

Theocharis Grigoriadis, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics

School of Business & Economics
Institute for East European Studies
Economics

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative economic systems
  • Economic history
  • Political economics
  • Development assistance

Dr. Miriam Hartlapp
Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for Comparative Politics and Policy of Germany and France

Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • European social and internal market policy
  • Comparison of political policy in France and Germany
  • Implementation of EU policies
  • European Commission and European Court of Justice

Dr. Swen Hutter
Professor of Political Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Political Sociology

Garystrasse 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Social movements
  • Protest
  • Political parties
  • Right-wing populism
  • Civil society
  • Europe

Dr. Alexander Kriwoluzky

School of Business & Economics
Faculty in Cooperation with the German Institute for Economic Research Berlin
Chair of Empirical Macroeconomics and Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Areas of Expertise

  • Inflation
  • Monetary policy
  • Fiscal policy
  • European Integration
  • Gas Embargo

Dr. Philipp Krämer

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Dutch Linguistics

Habelschwerdter Allee 45
Dipl.-Frankreichwissenschaftler, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Overseas France, Indian Ocean Islands, and the Caribbean
  • Saarland, Lorraine, and Luxembourg
  • France
  • Belgium
  • Scandinavia
  • Creole languages, languages of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean region
  • Multilingualism and language policy
  • Dialects, minority languages, regional languages
  • Critique of language, linguistic purism, language ideology
  • Racism
  • Colonialism and postcolonial societies

Dr. Lena Partzsch
Professor of Comparative politics

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Department of Comparative Politics with a focus on environmental and climate policy

Ihnestraße 22, Berlin 14195

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental policy
  • Climate policy
  • Development policy
  • ethical consumption
  • certification
  • supply chain laws

Dr. Ingo Peters
Associate Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy

Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Transatlantic relations
  • EU / NATO / OSCE
  • German foreign policy
  • Security policy
  • EU external relations
  • Conflicts in Europe
  • Self-determination

Professor of Law Bettina Rentsch

Department of Law
Civil Law
Junior Professor for Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law

Boltzmannstr. 3, 14195 Berlin

Please note

Interviews are possible in English, German and French.

Areas of Expertise

  • Private international law
  • International civil procedure
  • Harmonization of European private law
  • Corporate law
  • Social theory in business/corporate law
  • Anti-Semitism in private law
  • Feminist theory and private law

Dr. Thomas Risse
Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science

Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • German foreign policy
  • Transatlantic relations
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization and American foreign policy since the end of the Second World War
  • European integration
  • Europe and Russia
  • America and Europe
  • Current issues in European politics
  • EU Presidency
  • “EU foreign affairs”
  • International relations in light of the Geneva Convention and UN Human Rights Declaration
  • Fragile states
  • Governance export

Dr. Thomas Rixen
Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
International and Comparative Political Economy

Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Political economy
  • Globalization
  • International tax policy
  • Financial markets
  • Tax havens
  • Tax competition
  • Inequality
  • Regulation

Dr. Jochen Töpfer

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
  • Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
  • Privatization
  • Informality and neo-feudalism
  • Parties and political elites
  • Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
  • Religion and society
  • Religion and politics
  • Religion and conflict

Dr. Mihai Varga

Institute for East European Studies
Department of Sociology

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Development and economic policies in Eastern Europe
  • Social movements, nationalism, and right-wing extremism in Eastern Europe

Dr. Sabine von Oppeln

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science

Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • European Union
  • German and French European policy
  • German-French relations
  • Comparative politics in France and Germany

Dr. Michael Zürn
Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
c/o Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin

Phone (Office)
25491-340 (WZB)

Areas of Expertise

  • Global governance
  • G8/G20 Summit
  • EU treaties
  • International organizations
  • International legalization and international rule of law
  • Rising powers / BRIC and ISA
  • War and new forms of violence
  • Peace
  • Humanitarian intervention
  • Transnational social movements
  • NGOs
  • Protest / resistance
  • Ruling authority in an international system