Main Fields of Research:

Political Science

• Area studies, transnational relations, and international environmental policy
• Interaction between the economy and the environment
• International conflicts, peace and conflict studies, governance structures
• European integration processes
• Cultural and social aspects of migration histories in the world today, in European and non-European contexts
• Social inequalities in European and non-European context, gender relations
• Comparative policy and gender research
• EU financial crisis
• Diffusion processes of policy and institutions in Europe and the European Union
• Transformation processes in the Arab world
• Globalization research

Sociology

• Transregional relations, analysis of transnationalization and Europeanization processes
• Comparison of German society with other European societies
• Globalization processes
• Inter-relations between Europe and other regions of the world, especially North and Latin America, Eastern Europe

Media and Communication Studies

• Communication processes in contemporary society, transformation processes through globalization, digitalization, economization
• Conditions, structures, processes, content, and effects of media communication
• Communication policy and media economics
• Political communication and the transformation of the public
• Media change, including in changing political systems
• Uncertainty, crisis communication, risk communication

Social and Cultural Anthropology

• Non-European anthropology (especially Eastern and Southern Africa, Southeast Asia)
• Medical anthropology, globalization of health
• Local dynamics and globalization and migration processes

Involvement in Multidisciplinary Research Areas:

• Insecurity - security research
• Human–environment interaction
• Transregional relations
• Educational processes and income
• Health and quality of life
• Cultural dynamics