Research Projects at the IWM
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Between Bukharin and Balcerowicz:
A Comparative History of Economic Thought under CommunismIn April 2014, the IWM launched a long-term comparative research project on the history of economic ideas in nine communist countries: Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, GDR, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
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Democracy in Question
What are the causes of the current disappointment with democracy, and how will they affect the capacity of democratic societies to remain self-correcting? This project offers a platform to discuss these fundamental questions.
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Eurasia in Global Dialogue
The project “Eurasia in Global Dialogue” responds to challenges posed by the increasing isolation of a number of countries from the Eurasia region (Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, etc.), which is the result of these countries’ international and domestic politics.
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Europe’s Futures
Europe’s Futures sets out to research some of the key risks and problems Europe and its liberal democratic order are facing.
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Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration
IWM, in collaboration with Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (CRG) in Calcutta, launches a research platform on Forced Migration with a particular focus on South Asia and its European-Asian Dimension.
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Migrants in City-Making and Urban Politics
How are migrants involved in making and re-making cities? Historically, how have they become part of the generation of wealth in cities and of the social fabric and politics of cities? How do migrants contribute to and challenge the sites and scales of participation and citizenship, of social justice claims and narratives, and of the politics of cities?
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Re-thinking Europe in a Post-European Age
“Europe” is a key concept in Patocka's writings. This project, launched in 2015, will focus on the philosophical idea of Europe and its meaning in today's globalized (post-European) world.
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Religion and Secularism
This research project explores the ways in which globalization impacts the relationship between religion and secularism, thus intertwining the perspectives of different cultures, religions and theoretical backgrounds.
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Scales of Justice and Legal Pluralism
This research project addresses the ambivalences of juridification, which parallel a judicialisation of politics at various scales along with growing legal activism and a judicialisation of politics from the local to the global scale.
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The Philosophical Work of Jan Patočka
Jan Patočka is considered one of the most important Central European thinkers of the 20th century. This research project aims at collecting, exploring and disseminating his oeuvre.
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Ukraine in European Dialogue
Understanding Ukraine and the nature of the current conflict with Russia is vital for the future of the European endeavor. The project Ukraine in European Dialogue seeks to contribute to this exchange.
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United Europe – Divided History
This research project seeks to overcome divisions among national historiographies and between East and West through scholarly history conceived in a novel way.
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