SCRIPTS in the Media
The war against Ukraine - is there a turning point in sight?
Alexander Libman, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor of East European and Russian politics at Freie Universität Berlin was part of the phoenix runde. Together with other guests, he discussed the possible turning point in the war against Ukraine and what the fighter jet training has to do with it. Watch the complete discussion here (German).
May 17, 2023
Is a constitutional crisis coming?
Christoph Möllers, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor of public law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, spoke with Thorsten Jungholt and Jacques Schuster from the newspaper WELT about the possibility that the far-right party AfD could be part of the government in Thuringia and what this could mean. Read the complete article in German here (Paywall). In an answer to the article by Christoph Möllers, Andreas Rosenfelder, head of the feuilleton department at WELT, explains why it would not lead to a constitutional crisis if the AfD would win in Thuringia. Read the article here (Paywall).
May 17, 2023
Against the narrative of a divided society
Steffen Mau, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor of macrosociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, spoke with Larena Klöckner from the daily newspaper Tagesspiegel about his research and why current debates are often not reflected in empirical data. Read the complete article here ( German ).
May 08, 2023
Facettes of sociology
Andreas Eckert, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor for the history of Africa at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, writes about the many entanglements and facets in the history of sociology in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Read his complete contribution in German here (Paywall).
May 04, 2023
Unpacking Public Diplomacy
Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and Professor of History at the Freie Universität Berlin, spoke together with Nick Cull in the VISTAS Podcast of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. They discussed the history of public diplomacy, define what it, and other similar terms, mean, and how governments use it. Listen to the episode here .
May 04, 2023
The war against Ukraine
Gwendolyn Sasse, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and director of the Centre for East European and International Studies, spoke at the Gifhorner Schloss about her book and the war against Ukraine. Read the complete article in German here .
Apr 27, 2023
Theater in Munich: accusations of antisemitism
Christoph Möllers, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor of public law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin was part of a discussion round in Munich where he debated with others the freedom of the arts regarding the theatre production "Vögel" in Munich. The piece was criticized for antisemitism. Read the complete article in German here .
Apr 27, 2023
Colonialism and liberal ideas
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin spoke about the connections between racism, colonialism and the ideas of liberal thought. In her lecture for the lecture series "On the Critique and Future of the Liberal Script" presented as part of the "Offener Hörsaal" by public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk Nova, Amir-Moazami explains what postcolonial theories are and how they are used. Listen to the lecture in German here .
Apr 27, 2023
"The left-liberals are too cautious"
Christoph Möllers, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor of public law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, spoke with Jan Feddersen and Raoul Spada from the daily newspaper taz about the current predicament of liberalism and how the FDP and the Greens in Germany face it. Read the complete interview here .
Apr 22, 2023
Russia and the new illiberal conservatism
Katharina Bluhm, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor of sociology at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, spoke about a new illiberal conservatism which was growing for years within Russia. Her talk was part of the lecture series "On the Critique and Future of the Liberal Scripts" and is presented as part of the programme "Offener Hörsaal" by public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk Nova. Listen to her lecture in German here .
Apr 13, 2023
Focus on Crimea
Gwendolyn Sasse, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), spoke with Adrian Dittrich from public broadcaster BR24 about the current plans of Ukraine to regain control over the peninsula Crimea which is currently occupied by Russia. Read the complete interview in German here .
Apr 10, 2023
Not an equal partnership
Genia Kostka, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor of Chinese studies at Freie Universität Berlin, spoke to public broadcaster rbb24 about the visit by Xi Jinping to Russia and how the two countries will work together in the future. Kostka pointed out that the visit was more about economic collaboration than talks about peace. Listen to the complete interview in German here .
Mar 22, 2023
Bans in the name of press freedom
Christoph Möllers, Principal Investigator and professor of public law at Humboldt-Universität Berlin, wrote an article in the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung about two recent cases of restriction on the press: the online magazine Libra and the literary magazine Sinn und Form . Read his contribution here .
Mar 20, 2023
China and the war in Ukraine
Genia Kostka, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor for Chinese studies at Freie Universität Berlin, spoke with Tomasz Kurianowicz from the daily newspaper Berliner Zeitung about the meeting between China's president Xi Jinping and Wladimir Putin. Read the complete article here .
Mar 18, 2023
Reform of the electoral law in Germany
Christoph Möllers, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor of public law at Humboldt-Universität Berlin, spoke with Timo Lehmann from the magazine Spiegel about the current reform of the electoral law in Germany. Möllers consulted the government on the reform plans and explained why he sees little chance of bringing a suit in front of the constitutional court. Read the complete interview here .
Mar 18, 2023
Migration law: the need for reform
Jürgen Gerhards, Principal Investigator and senior professor of sociology at Freie Universität Berlin, spoke about the need to reform the current migration law. In his lectur, Gerhards highlights that there might be a common framework but different implementations. Listen to his lecture in Der offene Hörsaal from Deutschlandfunk Nova here .
Mar 16, 2023
Crumbling influence of the West?
Alexander Libman, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor of East European and Russian politics at Freie Universität Berlin, spoke to Anna Schmid of the news website Focus online about the destabilization of international politics and how the war in Ukraine will affect countries of the Global South even more in the future. Read the complete article here (German).
Mar 10, 2023
Russia's Clandestine Victory in Georgia
SCRIPTS Doctoral Researcher Anastasia Mgaloblishvili contributed an article to the news site Visegrad / Insight about the erupting protests in Georgia over a new law for organisations receiving funding from abroad. She writes how Putin uses the Georgian Dream government to do his bidding. Read her complete piece here (English).
Mar 09, 2023
International relations in a globalized world
Amrita Narlikar, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and director of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), spoke to radioeins rbb about her own international education and how this shaped her reserach and perception of inequality. Listen to the complete interview here (German).
Mar 08, 2023
"Libra" will be discontinued
Jost Müller-Neuhof writes for the daily newspaper Tagesspiegel , that Christoph Möllers, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor for public law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, put forward a report on the question if the information service "Libra" is infringing on the freedom of the press against state interference. Read the complete article in German here and another on the topic written bei Jochen Zenthöfer from the newspaper FAZ here .
Mar 07, 2023
