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Normative conditions of development policy
Doctoral group; Head: Prof. Dr. Stefan Kadelbach
more information ›Changes in transnational labor and commercial law
Doctoral group; Head: Dr. Florian Rödl
more information ›Constituting and changing forms of foreign policy
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fahrmeir, Prof. Dr. Gunther Hellmann and Prof. Dr. Miloš Vec
more information ›The emergence and change of constitutional orders in comparison
Prof. Dr. Günter Frankenberg
more information ›The emergence of national legal systems in post-Ottoman Southeast Europe
Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Michael Stolleis
more information ›Working group 2: Coercion and sanction
In all political systems of rule, coercion is used to deal with conflicts. Against this backdrop, the working group poses the key question of how coercion contributes to the production of trust or mistrust in and through conflicts. It examines how selected forms of coercion (legal, military, etc.) can be traced back to positive and negative experiences of conflict, influence the course of conflicts and thus produce trust in and through conflicts over the course of time.
more information ›Working group 3: Market
The working group analyzes the complex relationship between trust and forms of economic conflict. While markets are generally seen as a guarantor of economic trust, most decisions are not made in an institutional vacuum, but within the framework of formal and informal institutions. At the heart of the group’s empirical work program are two projects, one on how the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping the relationship between the state and the economy, and one on how crises are changing the gendered division of labor in the household.
more information ›Working group 4: Knowledge
The working group investigates the role of knowledge and knowledge-based institutions (epistemic authorities) for the emergence of trust and mistrust in social conflicts. Knowledge about the preferences of others, but also about the social and natural world, is an essential resource for managing conflicts productively. Where knowledge is shared, trust develops and stabilizes. However, this stabilizing power itself depends on epistemic trust, the exact form and role of which has yet to be determined by the working group’s research.
more information ›Working group 5: Media
The working group examines how media create trust in pluralistic societies and thereby enable the productive resolution of conflicts and at the same time reflect these processes. Based on the findings of the increasing digitalization of communication, the working group examines the operational and formal aspects of mass media (press, TV), film, literature, telecommunications and social media as well as functional media in law, business and politics in their formal and informal use. The working group’s methodological approach goes beyond content-, text- and technology-centered analyses and takes aesthetic, legal and economic factors into account.
more information ›Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Program
Head: Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst and
Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf
Project duration: Since 2023