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Extremism

Dr. Endre Borbáth

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Research Unit Political Sociology

Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin

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Further languages: Hungarian, Romanian

Areas of Expertise

  • Political parties and protest (comparative perspective)
  • Programmatic structure
  • Economic crises
  • East/West differences
  • Eastern Europe (Hungary, Romania, Poland)
  • Elections
  • Democracy
  • Conflict structures

Dr. Hajo Funke
Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Fundamentals of Politics

Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • National Socialism
  • Dealing with National Socialism
  • Right-wing  extremism
  • Issues of democracy and political culture
  • Middle East (Israel/Palestine conflict, the situation in Iran and Iraq)

Jannis Grimm

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research

Altensteinstrasse 48, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Protest and social movements
  • Civil society
  • Radicalization and political violence
  • Human rights violations and state violence
  • Repression, surveillance, and authoritarianism
  • North Africa
  • Near/Middle East
  • Democratization and social transformation
  • Arab Spring
  • Islamism
  • Muslim Brotherhood
  • Research ethics
  • Safe field research
  • Research conditions in authoritarian contexts

Dr. Swen Hutter
Professor of Political Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Political Sociology

Garystrasse 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Social movements
  • Protest
  • Political parties
  • Right-wing populism
  • Civil society
  • Europe

Dr. Helgard Kramer
Professor of Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology

Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Anti-Semitism
  • Neo-Nazis
  • Research on Nazi perpetrators
  • Gender, minorities, and globalization

Dr. Mirco Liefke

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication Policy and Media Economics

Garystraße 55, Berlin 14195

Areas of Expertise

  • Public service broadcasting
  • Transformation processes of digitalization
  • Structural change of the public sphere
  • New forms of the public sphere
  • Journalism
  • News journalism
  • Television news
  • crisis and conflict reporting
  • cultural transformation
  • Media change
  • Innovative forms of journalism
  • Interpretative methods of social research
  • Ethnography

Ph.D. Christoph Nguyen

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Chair of German Politics

Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • social inequality
  • voting behavior
  • social policy

Professor of Law Bettina Rentsch

Department of Law
Civil Law
Junior Professor for Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law

Boltzmannstr. 3, 14195 Berlin

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Interviews are possible in English, German and French.

Areas of Expertise

  • Private international law
  • International civil procedure
  • Harmonization of European private law
  • Corporate law
  • Social theory in business/corporate law
  • Anti-Semitism in private law
  • Feminist theory and private law

Dr. Mihai Varga

Institute for East European Studies
Department of Sociology

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Development and economic policies in Eastern Europe
  • Social movements, nationalism, and right-wing extremism in Eastern Europe