englischThe establishment and activities of Europol have resulted in considerable Europeanisation in the fight against serious and organised crime in Germany. These processes of change encompass legal and organisational structures as well as strategic and operational approaches in police work. As [...]
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englischUsing content analyses, this work examines the media tenor in the established print media, the most important TV news programmes and on social media in relation to the topic of refugees, while also investigating the opinions of the population in this respect. It addresses a series of [...]
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englischDemocracy is under pressure. Not only populist and authoritarian movements contribute to this, but also digitalisation, the internet and social media. This volume presents answers to questions that move us all: How should we meet the challenges posed by hate and deepfakes, by polarisation [...]
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englischIn his second volume of essays the author offers new analyses and gets to the bottom of current controversial issues: freedom of speech and right to assemble, covid protests, hate speech, the German MI5, ban of political parties – or Darknet, preventive state, potential Islamist attackers, [...]
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englischDemocracy is under pressure. Not only populist and authoritarian movements contribute to this, but also digitalisation, the internet and social media. This volume presents answers to questions that move us all: How should we meet the challenges posed by hate and deepfakes, by polarisation [...]
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englischThe European Union formulates ambitious joint principles for development policy, yet national implementation of these principles often lags behind. Which factors play a role in this? With a social constructivist norm approach, this study proposes a model for understanding the [...]
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englischThe OSCE has always been a club of non-like-minded states. But since the heydays of the organization in the 1990s, finding consensus has become ever more difficult. The 2021 edition of OSCE Insights reveals differences in the interests of participating States but it also demonstrates that [...]
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englischWith the Treaty of Lisbon, the Second Senate of the German Constitutional Court intensified its judgements with regard to Europe and in its recent rulings on rescuing the euro and the electoral threshold in EU elections emphasised its belief in a form of democracy based on the idea that the [...]
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englischThe European Union formulates ambitious joint principles for development policy, yet national implementation of these principles often lags behind. Which factors play a role in this? With a social constructivist norm approach, this study proposes a model for understanding the [...]
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englischThis study guide provides a systematic, comprehensive and historically embedded introduction to the formation, functioning and development conditions of today’s non-democratic regimes. It disseminates the results of international autocracy research, familiarises readers with its concepts and [...]
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