Institute for Intercultural and International Studies
The Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) is a research center for international relations, European politics and political theory at the University of Bremen . Since its founding in 1995 by Dieter Senghaas , Michael Zürn and Bernhard Peters, employees of the InIIS have been researching developments in international politics and political theory, including sociological and cultural studies research approaches in their work. Together with Jacobs University Bremen , InIIS is responsible for the "Master of International Relations: Global Governance and Social Theory". In addition, from 2002 to 2014, together with the Center for Social Policy and the Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology (EMPAS), it was one of the supporting institutions of the Collaborative Research Center 597 ("Statehood in Transition") and from 2018, alongside the SOCIUM, is primarily responsible for the Collaborative Research Center 1342 ( “Global Dynamics of Social Policy Development”).
In October 2016, Roy Karadağ took over the scientific management of the institute from Lothar Probst .
The focus of the research is the investigation of cooperative and confrontational global developments and processes in world society, which are currently being analyzed in five research fields:
- Institutions of global governance (Peter Mayer, Kerstin Martens )
- Theory and Practice of Politics ( Martin Nonhoff )
- Conflicts in World Society ( Klaus Schlichte )
- European Integration and Politics ( Susanne Schmidt )
- Transnational Political Order Formation on Financial Markets (Sebastian Botzem)