Research Groups

Leon Wansleben
We are currently experiencing a simultaneous increase in global awareness of climate change as an existential threat and in contestations around climate mitigation that concern burden-sharing and cost distribution as well as who determines transition pathways and on what terms. As the stakes for different groups become clearer and more articulate, conflicts come to the fore, as do new opportunities for political and economic actors. The research group investigates the dynamics unleashed by these configurations. [more]

Martin Höpner
Heterogeneity within the European Union has increased with each round of enlargement. The EU is made up of countries with widely differing welfare levels, welfare states, industrial relations arrangements, and corporate governance regimes. The extent to which the European economies rely on internal demand and exports varies, too. The research group analyzes how the heterogeneity of European varieties of capitalism shapes European integration. [more]

The research group focuses on the reconfigurations of socioeconomic relations engendered by articulations of sovereignty that manifest in concrete technologies, and on how economic technologies are in turn shaped by sociopolitical demands of sovereignty and security. [more]