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The ABI is one of Germany’s major research centers in the domain of both comparative area studies and transregional studies. As an independent, non-profit research institution, the institute cooperates with the University of Freiburg. The Institute was founded in 1960 and goes back to Arnold Bergstraesser, at that time Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Freiburg.

News

07.12.2023

New IQAS issue

Following the first part of the special issue "Knowledge on the Move," the second part further deepens the critical examination of knowledge production in Asia.

06.12.2023

Reading list about the broader context in Palestine and Israel

Like people all over the world, ABI staff are deeply saddened and concerned by the events that have been unfolding in Israel/Palestine since October 7, 2023. The members of staff and the ABI library have compiled academic sources that place these events in their political context.

Portrait der Bibliothekarin des ABI, Elisabeth Caruana.

05.12.2023

Bidding farewell to our librarian Elisabeth Caruana

After five years, we bid farewell to our librarian Elisabeth Caruana and welcome Petra Kupfer as her successor.

28.11.2023

ALMA Reviews Blog: Appropriation of Decolonial Feminism

In her article “Appropriation, re-appropriation, offloading, offsetting”, Soumaya Mestiri argues that decolonial feminism should aim at de-centring modern and liberal thought, ideologies and identities. Alessandra Bonci reviews an article that offers a Tunisian philosopher's perspective.

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IQAS 54: 3 | Knowledge on the Move, Part II

Cross-case patterns of security production in hybrid political orders: their shapes, ordering practices, and paradoxical outcomes

Glawion, Dr. Tim

Peacebuilding

Date of publication: 01.06.2023

Studying insecurity from relative safety — Dealing with methodological blind spots

Glawion, Dr. Tim with de Vries, Dr. Lotje

Qualitative Research

Date of publication: 01.08.2023

Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict

How do postcolonial hierarchies manifest themselves in epistemologies and knowledge production in peace and conflict studies? How can peace and conflict research contribute to a transformation of such hierarchies? To answer this question, the ABI will cooperate with the universities of Marburg, Erfurt and Bayreuth in the BMBF-funded project "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict". A Virtual Encyclopedia will then present the results, methodological developments and theoretical innovations.

2022 - 2026

Conflict and Fragility

Foto: Jerome Dahdah. License: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Deed

Paradoxes of Privileged Mobility: Turkish Doctors in Germany

Postdoc Project: The point of departure of this research are the paradoxes in Turkish doctors’ privileged mobility to contemporary Germany. The concepts of hope and waiting in the context of migration will be used to examine these paradoxes.

2023 - 2024

Global Asylum Governance and European Union's Role" (ASILE)

The project Global Asylum Governance and European Union´s Role (ASILE) studies the interactions between emerging international protection systems and the United Nations Global Compact for Refugees.

2020-2023