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iniis.bsky.social
Institute of Intercultural & International Studies (InIIS)
@iniis.bsky.social
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Uni Bremen research institute, covering IR, Political Theory, European Studies.
www.uni-bremen.de/iniis
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We are very happy for this opportunity: together with the IfEK at U Bremen, we will host @dirkmoses.bsky.social to give his very timely lecture "How #Genocide Became Distinguished from Genocidal #Warfare" in Bremen on July 10th.
Thanks to everybody & especially to Dirk Moses for making this happen!!
June 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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If you are interested in Israeli societal and political issues & the current wars, join us for the online panel "The Judicial Coup, the Gaza War & the Transformations of Israeli Politics and Society" with (@yaelberda.bsky.social) & @gutweind.bsky.social.
Zoom link: www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...
June 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Join us this Wednesday at 12.00 for the talk "Africa's Global Infrastructures. Chinese Projects and Transforming Governance Practices" by @janahoenke.bsky.social .

The Zoom link is available here: www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...
May 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Join us tomorrow for a discussion of Quinn Slobodian's newest book, Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right.
Zoom link available here: www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...
May 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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CALL FOR PAPERS!
Together with Tobias ten Brink and @johannespetry.bsky.social, Wiebke Rabe is organizing this authors' workshop on China's quest for domestic autonomy and the role of global dependencies in it. The deadline is 31 March!
March 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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This Thursday, "The #Foreign Policies of #East #African States" will be launched at Cavendish University #Uganda. This will be a great occasion to exchange with editors (Jude Kagoro and Klaus Schlichte) and authors (Moses Khisa, Asiimwe Solomon, Edward Kaweesi).
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January 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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If you are around in Nairobi these days, do not miss the launch of Hawa Noor's groundbreaking monograph "#Mobilization for Violent Politicized #Islam" on the motivations of Kenyan Muslim fighters to join Shabaab in the war in #Somalia.
When: Thursday, 23 January.
Where: Alliance Française Nairobi.
January 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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A big thank you to Jude Kagoro and the colleagues from Kampala for making this international workshop "Who Knows What on Somalia?" possible, which will take place tomorrow at Makerere University.
Link to the program: nc.uni-bremen.de/index.php/s/...
January 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Join us at tomorrow's InIIS Lunchtime Talk "Drivers of Current Armament Dynamics: The Case of Intermediate-Range Missiles" by Michael Broszka (@ifshhamburg.bsky.social).
Zoom link attached: www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...
December 10, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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BOOK LAUNCH!!! "Szenen des Politischen" von Christian Leonhardt wird am 5. Dezember vorgestellt. Online-Teilnahme möglich für die Nicht-Bremer:innen!
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November 21, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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What role does climate cooperation play in China's relations with Global South countries? Join us for this online workshop in November, organized by Wiebke Rabe and Barbara Pongratz , to discuss this important topic.
Deadline for abstracts: August 25th!
www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...
August 1, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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Morgen & übermorgen findet im Haus der Wissenschaft Bremen die Konferenz "Living Archives. Geschichte und Gegenwart intersektional-feministischer Bewegungen in Theorie & Praxis" statt.
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June 26, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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Join us tomorrow for this timely talk "The Socio-Ecological Question: Disentangling Environmental Degradation and Migration" by Thomas Faist in our InIIS_Lunchtime series.
Program and Zoom link are accessible here: www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...
June 11, 2024 at 9:56 AM
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What role does China play for the new Loss and Damage Fund? How does China understand its role in global climate cooperation?
Check out this call for papers by Wiebke Rabe and Barbara Pongratz for an online workshop (27th November) on these questions.
www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...
April 18, 2024 at 8:06 AM
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We look very much forward to next week's online colloquium session in which Joel Migdal & Roy Karadag will discuss "The International Politics of the Gaza War.
April 11, 2024 at 8:36 AM
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We are very happy to finally welcome our two latest postdoctoral researchers Marco Nicola Binetti and Katren Rogers! Wishing them all the best for these years at InIIS and Bremen!
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February 8, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Many congratulations to Christina Grabbe for successfully defending her dissertation "Enfant Terrible of Policy-Makers and Mobile Workers’ Porous Safety Net", which dealth with the challenges in the EU's coordination of social security systems!
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February 6, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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Roy Karadag wrote this piece for Social Policy Worldwide criticizing the global north bias in mainstream social policy & welfare state journals and calling for more academic curiosity among welfare state scholars to also engage with other world regions.
socialpolicyworldwide.org/post/the_glo...
January 24, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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We had the great opportunity to speak with Harriet Byarugaba from the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) on the challenges of fighting Al-Shabaab and of cooperatively working for a safer Somalia and on how life has changed since the AU intervention.
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November 30, 2023 at 7:18 AM
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„Immer noch besser als gar keine Regelung“, so das Urteil von Philipp Genschel zur globalen Mindestbesteuerung von Konzernen im Gespräch mit Table.Media.
November 20, 2023 at 9:34 AM
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Inspiring new special issue on collective reflexivity and its place in the field of Global Social Policy, edited by Anna Wolkenhauer and John Berten for Global Social Policy:
journals.sagepub.com/toc/GSP/curr...
November 16, 2023 at 2:32 PM
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Wir freuen uns schon auf den morgigen Vortrag "Die Unabhängigkeit europäischer Agenturen" von Eva Ruffing (Uni Osnabrück) in unserer Lunchtime Talks Reihe.
Zoom-Link ist hier abrufbar:
www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...
November 7, 2023 at 9:27 AM
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"Regularisation and titling [...] can accelerate processes of commodification." & "Formalisation can accelerate gentrification, resulting in the exclusion of residents from their former settlements." Alex Veit on the pitfalls of formalizing informal housing!
socialpolicyworldwide.org/post/informa...
November 7, 2023 at 9:08 AM
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"Eine gerechte Weltwirtschaftsordnung?"
Ein toller Sammelband, der Alex Veit und Daniel Fuchs da anlässlich von 50 Jahren "New International Economic Order" zusammengestellt haben bei Transcript:
www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index...
November 4, 2023 at 3:19 PM
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This plenary session of the USIP Missing Peace Symposium features BrahmyPoologasingham, Philipp Schulz, Elisabeth Jean Wood, Payal Shah and Dara Kay Cohen.
For more details, visit: usip.org/events/missi...
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November 3, 2023 at 1:50 PM