SCRIPTS News
Renewal Proposal | SCRIPTS Sets Course for its Second Act: An interview with Tanja Börzel
SCRIPTS has just submitted its renewal proposal for the next phase of the German Research Foundation's (in German, DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Excellence Strategy, marking an exciting milestone for the entire SCRIPTS community. We had the opportunity to sit down with our speaker, Tanja A. Börzel, to discuss the future of the Cluster. In this interview, Tanja shares her groundbreaking and inspiring thoughts on SCRIPTS' future direction, including new research priorities and reflections on the goals already achieved.
Sep 26, 2024
The PALS Survey | An Interview with Lukas Antoine
In 2020 Lukas Antoine joined SCRIPTS to work as a researcher in the global comparative public opinion survey “Public Attitudes towards the Liberal Script” (PALS) . Antoine worked on the PALS survey as a doctoral researcher and is currently a data analyst at the 'Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft'. We spoke with him about his work on PALS and his experience as a doctoral researcher at SCRIPTS. He also gave us a few personal tips that could be useful for future PhD candidates.
Aug 12, 2024
Tanja A. Börzel and Anastasia Mgaloblishvili at first ECPR YEN webinar on Europeanisation
Aug 01, 2024
SCRIPTS Blog Post No. 75 by Marlene Ritter
Shortly after the EU election in June, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Tobias Klee, Marlene Ritter, and Lesar Yurtsever organised an international SCRIPTS workshop titled “Welcome to the (Il)liberal State: Place Branding as a Historical Practice”. Doctoral Researcher Marlene Ritter relates the findings of the workshop to the recurring debate on the EU’s struggle to make a convincing case for itself. What is there to learn from a historical perspective — in assessing, but also addressing this problem? Spoiler alert: One cannot not communicate. And this is part of the problem, but it may be part of a long-term solution as well
Jul 26, 2024
SCRIPTS Blog Post No. 74 by Roberta Astolfi
Recent domestic circumstances and the results of the EU elections give reasons for raising the level of concern about the resilience of Italian democracy. Roberta Astolfi analyses the international relevance of two Italian specific political events and how they affect new strategies and regrouping within the European institutions.
Jul 17, 2024
SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 41 by Roberta Astolfi
Between Populism and Technocracy. The Impoverishment of the Individual’s Political Role and the Vulnerability of Liberal Democracy
Jul 15, 2024
Understanding the State of Liberal Societies: Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS Releases Open-Access Dataset to the Public
Liberal societies are under pressure worldwide: internally eroded by right-wing populist electoral victories and growing economic inequality, externally challenged by the power play of autocratic governments. The survey “ Public Attitudes towards the Liberal Script ” (PALS), conducted in thirty countries with over 60,000 participants, provides a crucial basis for future research. The resulting dataset offers insights into attitudes toward liberal principles and institutions and is now available to the public.
Jul 10, 2024
SCRIPTS doctoral researchers Johannes Heß and Tobias Klee at the exhibition "Europäische Resonanzen: Eduard Bigas überträgt Josep Pla in die Gegenwart"
One hundred years after the Catalan author and journalist Josep Pla travelled and reported on post-war Europe, the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to Germany opened an exhibition on his work, reimagining his writings through the artistic lens of Catalan artist Eudard Bigas. On June 20 th , 2024, the artist (who hails from Pla’s hometown of Palafrugell), gave a tour through his works, in which he interpreted Pla’s impressions with collages, montages, and drawings. The images draw on parallels between Pla’s time and ours: inflation, nationalism, and violent dictatorships.
Jul 03, 2024
SCRIPTS Blog Post No. 73 by Kriszta Kovács
University campuses, typically known as places for open and free exchange of opinions during peaceful times, have recently turned into battlegrounds. This shift has sparked discussions on the boundaries of academic freedom. Kriszta Kovács’s blog post focuses on the scope of this freedom and asks what the European Union institutions have done so far to protect academic freedom, a fundamental prerequisite for serious academic work.
Jun 27, 2024
SCRIPTS Think Piece No. 17 by Jaša Veselinovič
The outgoing European Commission promised to be a ‘geopolitical’ one. Five years later, the EU’s ‘geoeconomic turn’ can be seen as one of the von der Leyen team’s main legacies. As Jaša Veselinovič argues in this Think Piece, this shift consists not only of new economic policy tools but also entailed changes and adaptations in the EU’s foreign policy-trade nexus. He states that even though requirements of geoeconomic policymaking induced numerous (in)formal adjustments, they remain only softly institutionalised – and that their fate (and more generally legitimacy) under the future new Commission remains uncertain.
Jun 14, 2024
SCRIPTS Blog Post No. 72 by Anastasia Mgaloblishvili
In the face of ongoing protests in Georgia, SCRIPTS Doctoral Researcher Anastasia Mgaloblishvili analyses the significance of the outcome of the upcoming EU elections for the country's democratic development.
Jun 05, 2024
Workshop | Comparative studies of digital repression
Discussion and exchange about digital repression: AI-driven propaganda, digital rights, social media effects, surveillance, and censorship
May 28, 2024
Die SCRIPTS Wissensskulptur
Inwiefern werden die Versprechen des liberalen Skripts, wie Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und Wohlstand erfüllt oder gebrochen? SCRIPTS untersucht in der neuen Wissensinstallation die spannungsreichen Kontestationen des liberalen Skripts.
Apr 25, 2024
SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 40 by Xinyuan Dai and Lucie Lu
Beyond Liberal Narratives. China and the International Human Rights Order
Apr 16, 2024
SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 39 by Jessica Gienow-Hecht and Steffen Just
Music and Human Rights Since World War II
Apr 16, 2024
SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 38 by Adriana Cuppuleri
20 Years of LIO Contestation(s). A Computational Text Analysis of Russia’s Foreign Policy Discourse (2003–2023)
Apr 03, 2024
SCRIPTS Blog Post No. 71 by Roberta Astolfi
Roberta Astolfi presents her political-philosophical reflections on Meloni’s proposal for a constitutional reform, which points to a deep ongoing crisis of representativity of the Italian government and raises questions about the future of the liberal democratic system.
Mar 20, 2024
