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Prof. Sven Jochem comments on the news from Sweden in the WDR 5 Politikum podcast and advises a differentiated view of Swedish society.

Prof. Florian Kunze explains, in the SWR2 Wissen Podcast, why he thinks critical of the concept of generational differences in the world of work and points out that young professionals can and would make high demands on employers in times of a shortage of skilled workers.

In the new investigative Konstanz online magazine karla, Prof. Marius Busemeyer publishes his first column entitled the "System Crisis as a Permanent Condition?". In it, Prof. Marius Busemeyer explains why politics should not neglect investments in the future, especially now. In the following editions of the city magazine karla, he will repeatedly comment on selected topics in "Busemeyer's Perspective".

In the podcast "Go Home, Homeoffice!", Prof. Florian Kunze comments on the development of the working world in Germany since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects. In the podcast of Hessischer Rundfunk, he also shows which developments we can see in the USA and how these can be transferred to Germany.

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 He criticizes the caving in of Western societies to nuclear weapons threats and the resurgence of the outdated school of realism.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…