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In the wake of Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, Prof. Dr. David Garcia was asked by the New York Times about his experience in network science and what lessons Elon Musk can learn from the demise of "Friendster".

From 19th to 21st October 2022, the kick-off meeting for the launch of the project "EMBRACing changE - Overcoming Blockages and Advancing Democracy in the European Neighbourhood" took place in Berlin. Under the scientific direction of PD Dr. Sonja Grimm, the research project investigates the blockades of democratization. Together, 14 international partner institutions will develop innovative policy instruments to improve the European Union's capacity to promote democracy. The programme is…

In an interview with ZDF-Online, Prof. Sven Jochem classified the parliamentary elections in Denmark and held the long preceding strengthening of the right-wing populist "Danish People's Party" partly responsible for a possible shift to the right in the country. The interview can be read online here.

In a guest commentary in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Prof. Gerald Schneider criticizes the handling of Russian threats of a nuclear strike in the wake of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine. He criticizes the caving in of Western societies to nuclear weapons threats and the resurgence of the outdated school of realism. The article can be read without a paywall here in the online edition of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Marius Bug has won the essay competition of Rutgers University in the Occasional Paper Series. The essay "Democracy and Development" is a critical reflection of the academic debate on the importance of democratic institutions for economic development. From the modernisation theory of the post-war period to the discussions of political economy and the critique of the classical concept of development, one of the fundamental questions of development research is thus illuminated. Finally, the case…

Marius Busemeyer was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research Funding Network (FIS Advisory Board) at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS). The advisory board supports the ministry in designing the research funding programme of the aforementioned funding network (especially for projects, junior research groups and endowed professorships).

Marius Busemeyer was elected to the Supervisory Board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The…

Prof. Dr. Sven Jochem was interviewed by Deutschland Funk Kultur about the shift to the right in Sweden as part of the program Studio 9. Sven Jochem´s interview in the podcast can be accessed online here.

Prof. Florian Kunze was interviewed by SWR about his home office study as part of the "Geld, Markt, Meinung" podcast. The interview in written form can be read here. The podcast can be found here, at minute 6:22 the interview with Florian Kunze begins.

Constance student Larissa Möckel will give a speech at this year's "Athens Democracy Forum". At the prestigious event, Ms Möckel will be joined by former UN Secretary-General Ba Ki-Moon, EU Commissioner Vera Jourová and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, among others. The framework of the forum and the different speakers can be found here.