🧭 New from CIRP: Nuri Korkmaz (our affiliate) has published a timely study in the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (July 2025) titled “Reconnecting Divided Urban Spaces through Cross‑Border Cooperation in the Bulgarian–Greek Borderland. www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/1...

After 10 years as Honorary Professor at CIRP, Nathalie Tocci gave her final seminar on “The EU in International Politics” last Friday. From her first lecture in 2015 to her last in 2025 — thank you, Nathalie, for a decade of sharp insights & dedicated teaching. Tübingen will miss you

🌍 27 MAPIR students from Tübingen spent 3 days simulating peace talks on the Sudan conflict. Held at Burg Liebenzell, this was the hands-on part of our “Theories & Practices of Mediation” seminar. Unconventional, intense, and an amazing way to learn what mediation actually feels like.

missed the plenary, made the point. @thomasdiez.bsky.social at #EWIS2025 on why international society needs to be studied from below — through the everyday, not just diplomacy. read more in the post ↓ #EverydayIR #EISA #InternationalStudies

📢 Join us for our next Departmental Seminar! Whether you already are a Cyprus expert or just curious about European integration and conflict resolution, this seminar promises insights for everyone. Don’t miss it!

On May 17, 2025, @thomasdiezrottenburg joined the Jean Monnet Chair Conference “China, European Union, and New Dynamics of Great Power Politics” at the University of Macau. His key message: “If the EU wants to be a great power, it cannot forget its normative power ambitions.”

On Wednesday, February 15, 2025, we had the pleasure of welcoming Dagmar Vorlíček as a guest in our Discourses of Security lecture. She shared insightful perspectives on a topic that's often overlooked in security discussions: Infrastructures and Global Security 🌍

Yesterday, Tuesday 13 May, Gabi Schlag shared here thoughts on why diplomatic negotiations on conflicts between states seem to be failing more and more frequently nowadays. Read more about the event at Volkshochschule in the pictures below!

As part of the Institutskolloquium series at the Institute of Political Science (IfP), Dr. Dr. Juliana Tappe Ortiz presented her lecture "Women under threat: perceptions of women's activism in Colombia" on May 7th.

Come join us for our OPEN LECTURE next Tuesday 13 May 2025 – 16:00 c.t. Come to HS2 Neue Aula or join online: zoom.us/j/94786719368 Meeting-ID: 947 8671 9368 Passcode: 341116

We are excited to announce that tomorrow, Wednesday, May 7, at 4pm c.t., our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Juliana @tappeortiz.bsky.social , will join us for the IfP Departmental Seminar! She will discuss “Women under Threat in Armed Conflicts” to ask how safe social activism in Columbia is.

Congratulations to Maximilian Ohle on successfully defending his PhD Thesis! 🎉

❗Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations, to which both Thomas Diez and gabi schlag has contributed with their chapters on Post-structuralism and Body, respectively, is out! 🧾 doi.org/10.4337/9781... for "Post-structuralism" 🧾 doi.org/10.4337/9781... for "Body"

❗OPEN ACCESS article by Dr Gabi Schlag! In a time when NATO is under strain, Dr Gabi Schlag’s article offers a compelling look at how the alliance has crafted its identity constructions through two vignettes of NATO’s public (visual) diplomacy and strategic communication. tiny.cc/1qee001

"What must Europe do to maintain security if it can no longer rely on the USA?" 🗞️ 📰 On March 20, 2025, the Südwest Presse interviewed Thomas Diez and Andreas Hasenclever. Read the new press article 'Tübingen peace researcher on Ukraine conflict and Trump: ‘Even if Putin wins this war, he has lost.’'

❗ OPEN ACCESS book chapter by Dr Gabi Schlag! 📚 This chapter examines NATO’s public legitimation campaign and how visualizations (re-)shape the security agenda, and how visualizations shape the discourses on security, power and strength. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-o...

❗Your body is a battleground! Read the book chapter titled “Body” by Dr. Gabi Schlag in Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations, compiled and edited by the Beate Jahn and Sebastian Schindler! 📚 You can find the book at: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elg...

❗ OPEN ACCESS article by Dr. Gabi Schlag! 📌 As the world of social media grow increasingly topical, it would be timely to read Dr. Gabi Schlag's article, titled "European Union’s Regulating of Social Media: A Discourse Analysis of the Digital Services Act!" doi.org/10.17645/pag...

🌐 We would like to thank Prof. Volodymyr Dubovyk for his insightful talk, "War and Peace: Can President Trump End Russian Aggression in Ukraine", on the prospects of war and peace in Ukraine and what the Trump administration can or will bring to the table!

📌 Join us next Wednesday, January 29 at 4pm c.t., for the Departmental Seminar given by Volodymyr Dubovyk on the Russian aggression in Ukraine, the Trump presidency, and Trump's promise to bring a quick end to the war in Ukraine!

🌐 We would like to thank Prof. Dennis Schmidt for his open lecture, “The Relevance of International Law and Institutions in Times of Crises"!

On Wednesday, January 22 @thomasdiez.bsky.social will welcome Dennis Schmidt, an assistant professor at @durhamuniversity.bsky.social 🎓 Join us and learn more about the relevance of International Law and institutions in times of crises.

📚 The Yearbook of European Integration (in German, "Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2024") is out! 📌 Entry on Cyprus is written by Prof. Thomas Diez, and reviews the EU-Cyprus relations between Summer 2023 and Summer 2024. 📌 Find the yearbook at: www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/jahrbuc...

❗New OPEN ACCESS article by CIRP for those who read german doi.org/10.5771/0946... #Ukraine #IRTheory #GlobalPolitics #InternationalRelations

🌐 We would like to thank Prof. Ebru Turhan for her insightful talk, “Germany's Role in EU-Turkey Relations: A Status Quo Power?," making sense of both Germany's assertive responses to Turkey's violations of fundamental rights and Germany's increasing discursive silence starting with 2020.

⚫In our next departmental seminar on December 4th, Professor Ebru Turhan will examine Germany’s influence within the EU and the broader European neighbourhood through the longitudinal analysis of Germany’s rule of law and fundamental rights support in Turkey. 🔴Interested? Find the details below!

🌐 We would like to give Prof. Erica Resende a heartfelt thank you for her insightful talk, “Military Thinking in Bolsonaro’s Populist Foreign Policy," illuminating us about how military thinking was a prominent feature and style of Bolsonaro's populist rule and pro-Bolsonaro groups in Brazil.

⚫In our next departmental seminar, Professor Erica Resende will explore how Bolsonaro’s populist foreign policy was influenced by Brazilian military thinking! 🔴Interested? Find the details below!

📚 In their latest OPEN ACCESS article, @thomasdiez.bsky.social and @fvonlucke.bsky.social examine the European Parliament debates between 1990 and 2020 and show how the EU actors were confident in the European project, which is argued often as an "anxious community". t.ly/7zmFz

📚 In their latest OPEN ACCESS piece, Damla Cihangir Tetik and @thomasdiez.bsky.social proposes moving beyond pro-/anti-EU dichotomies in EU-Turkey relations, arguing that the two sides are entangled too deeply to fully break apart and too diverse to be attached to a joint future. t.ly/OR44r

Not merely water; much more🌊! As a part of the Global Encounters Lecture Series, on the 26th (tomorrow!), Flavia Cavalcanti will discuss how the fluidity of water challenges modern territorial imagination in International Relations and static geopolitical maps.

We would like to thank Prof. Stefan Stetter for his presentation, “Israel and Palestine as a 'Core Conflict' of World Society,” and insightful discussion of the conflict's history, leading up to today.

On Friday, 14 June 2024, our Centre hosted the ‘Reinvigorating Discursive Foreign Policy Analysis: New Approaches, Cases and Critical Engagements’ workshop! The workshop featured papers by leading scholars using a discourse analytical approach to the study of foreign policy.

As part of our departmental seminar, on June 19, 2024, at 16:00 S.T. 🕓, Professor Stephan Stetter of the University of the German Armed Forces in Munich will give a lecture on "Israel and Palestine as a 'Core Conflict' of World Society".

We would like to thank Prof. Flavia Guerra Cavalcanti for her presentation, “Ocean Thinking and the Critique of the Modern Territorial Imagination in International Relations,” and insightful discussion of more-than-wet-ontology!

This year, the University of Tübingen's delegation to the National Model United Nations (NMUN) conference in New York (March 24-28, 2024) represented Benin in eight different committees and received the Outstanding Delegation Award! Congrats to all the participants on such a successful conference!

On 12 Jun 2024 at 16:00 c.t. Flavia Guerra Cavalcanti of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, currently a postdoctoral Global Encounters fellow at Tübingen University, will give a lecture on "Ocean Thinking and the Critique of the Modern Territorial Imagination in International Relations".

The talk Thomas Diez gave in May on the EU's climate policy and the global climate regime in a series of talks about the EU in advance of the EP elections in early June is now online! (in German) You can find it at: www.zu.de/europawahl ... and on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3nkC...

You love theory, but want to learn more about the causes of conflict and the prospects for peace? Apply for the Master's program Peace Research and International Relations at the University of Tübingen! Application deadline: 31 May For more information: tinyurl.com/bdkseuua

We would like to thank Prof. Fabienne Bossuyt for her talk, "The Subaltern Strikes Back, or How Ukraine Is Claiming Agency from Russia and the EU", and her insightful discussion of the war in Ukraine and how it represents a critical juncture in the Ukrainian identity.

As part of our departmental seminar, on 8 May 2024 at 16:00 c.t. Fabienne Bossuyt of Ghent University will give a lecture on "The Subaltern Strikes Back, or How Ukraine Is Claiming Agency from Russia and the EU".