Current Fellows' research
- Future Europe as a Superpower: Voices from CEEThe European Union’s future role in the world balances between a peace project and ambitions of strategic autonomy. This new ambition has also set the stage for the now ongoing Conference on the Future of Europe.
- Need for Speed? Europe, China, and the Competition for the Green Tech TransitionWhen Chinese President Xi Jinping announced Beijing’s commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2060 in September 2020 at the United Nations General Assembly, this came as a surprise to many, not least within China – among his own government, provincial leaders, business elites and i
- A History of Turkey’s Future and its Implications for EuropeDespite the different profiles that the last three American presidents presented to the World and despite the unsettled and unsettling state of domestic politics in the USA, the foriegn and security shift by Washington is clear.
- The Three Professions Entitled to Wear the Gown: A Morally Perfectionist Defense of Academic FreedomThis book offers a history and theory of academic freedom that responds to the epistemic dimensions of America’s democratic decline. Its premise is that the twentieth-century concept of the secular university—its self-definition as a marketplace of ideas—risks redundancy un
- Solving Multiclass Classification for Social ResearchThe classification of the items of ever-increasing textual databases has become an important goal for a number of research groups active in the field of computational social science.
- The Rebel Frontier: Regionalism and Anti-Kremlin Protest in the Russian Far EastThis project explores emerging social movements in Komsomolsk-na-Amure, the largest military-industrial base in the Russian Far East.
Jobs and Open Calls
News
- How to Think About War in Ukraine26.01.2022As concern over Russian military escalation against Ukraine mounts, IWM Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder reflects on the current situation, its roots, and its consequences in a Substack essay from 18 January 2022.
- Soli Özel in latest episode of Coffeehouse Conversations with Ivan Vejvoda18.01.2022Europe's Futures Fellow, Soli Özel and IWM Acting Rector Ivan Vejvoda wrestle with the implications of a truly epochal shift in the geopolitical status quo in this latest episode of the Coffeehouse Conversations podcast.
- Change of Date for Jeremy Adelman Monthly Lecture12.01.2022The date for the Monthly Lecture with Jerey Adelman on "Patient Earth: The Rise and Fall of Globalization" had to be changed to 8 March 2022.
Upcoming events
- Seminars and ColloquiaCET
- IWM’s landmark 1990 conference "Central Europe on its Way to Democracy"ExhibitionCET
- Präsentation der deutschsprachigen Ausgabe des RomansLectureCET
- Preparatory Meeting of the Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced MigrationConferences and WorkshopsCET
Recent Media
Upcoming events
- Seminars and ColloquiaCET
- IWM’s landmark 1990 conference "Central Europe on its Way to Democracy"ExhibitionCET
- Präsentation der deutschsprachigen Ausgabe des RomansLectureCET
- Preparatory Meeting of the Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced MigrationConferences and WorkshopsCET
News
- How to Think About War in Ukraine26.01.2022As concern over Russian military escalation against Ukraine mounts, IWM Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder reflects on the current situation, its roots, and its consequences in a Substack essay from 18 January 2022.
- Soli Özel in latest episode of Coffeehouse Conversations with Ivan Vejvoda18.01.2022Europe's Futures Fellow, Soli Özel and IWM Acting Rector Ivan Vejvoda wrestle with the implications of a truly epochal shift in the geopolitical status quo in this latest episode of the Coffeehouse Conversations podcast.
- Change of Date for Jeremy Adelman Monthly Lecture12.01.2022The date for the Monthly Lecture with Jerey Adelman on "Patient Earth: The Rise and Fall of Globalization" had to be changed to 8 March 2022.
Current Fellows' research
- Future Europe as a Superpower: Voices from CEEThe European Union’s future role in the world balances between a peace project and ambitions of strategic autonomy. This new ambition has also set the stage for the now ongoing Conference on the Future of Europe.
- Need for Speed? Europe, China, and the Competition for the Green Tech TransitionWhen Chinese President Xi Jinping announced Beijing’s commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2060 in September 2020 at the United Nations General Assembly, this came as a surprise to many, not least within China – among his own government, provincial leaders, business elites and i
- A History of Turkey’s Future and its Implications for EuropeDespite the different profiles that the last three American presidents presented to the World and despite the unsettled and unsettling state of domestic politics in the USA, the foriegn and security shift by Washington is clear.
- The Three Professions Entitled to Wear the Gown: A Morally Perfectionist Defense of Academic FreedomThis book offers a history and theory of academic freedom that responds to the epistemic dimensions of America’s democratic decline. Its premise is that the twentieth-century concept of the secular university—its self-definition as a marketplace of ideas—risks redundancy un
- Solving Multiclass Classification for Social ResearchThe classification of the items of ever-increasing textual databases has become an important goal for a number of research groups active in the field of computational social science.
- The Rebel Frontier: Regionalism and Anti-Kremlin Protest in the Russian Far EastThis project explores emerging social movements in Komsomolsk-na-Amure, the largest military-industrial base in the Russian Far East.
Recent Media
Jobs and Open Calls
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