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Recasting the Role of Citizens in Foreign and Security Policy? A DFG-funded research project
Democratic innovations and changing patterns of interaction between European executives and citizens. For the last decade, politicians and members of national executives in Europe have started to actively engage ordinary citizens in foreign and security policy (FSP), by initiating dialogue and participation processes. Our project investigates this change of the role of citizens in a…
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Hanna Pfeifer presented research in Paris
On 11 April 2025, the Diplomatic and Consular Academy of the Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères and Sciences Po Paris co-organized a grand séminaire on „The External Action of France. Everyone’s Business? Engaging National Stakeholders in Diplomacy“. Hanna Pfeifer presented results from the DFG project in the panel on „Intéresser les citoyens à…
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Christian Opitz started research visit at Adam Mickiewicz University
On 7 October 2024, Christian started a six-week research visit with the Democratic Innovations Research Group, led by Prof. Paulina Pospieszna, at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. During his stay, Christian aims to deepen his understanding of democratic innovations in Poland, focusing on this case as part of our broader analysis of dialogue and…
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Presentation of draft paper by Christian Opitz at the 2024 Academic Convention of the German Political Science Association
On 24 September 2024, Christian Opitz presented his draft paper “Vom Bürgerrat zur Gesellschaft: Wie deliberative Bürgerbeteiligung politisches Vertrauen generalisieren kann [From Citizens’ Council to Society: How Deliberative Citizen Participation Can Generalize Political Trust ]” (working title) at the 29th Academic Convention of the German Political Science Association.
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New publication: Kontrollierte Politisierung: Bürgerdialoge im Rahmen der Entwicklung der ersten Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie in Deutschland
In this new paper, Christian Opitz, Hanna Pfeifer, and Anna Geis discuss the citizen participation series that was accompanying the drafting process of Germany’s first National Security Strategy. They argue that the participation can be understood as a ‚controlled politicisation‘. The executive, primarily in form of the ‚Auswärtiges Amt‘ (Federal Foreign Office), specifically politicised some aspects,…
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New publication: Democratic innovations beyond the deliberative paradigm: a re-conceptualization based on Luhmann’s systems theory
In his latest open access-article, Christian Opitz discusses the current research on deliberative-participatory democratic innovations conducted by state administration agencies. Diverging from their often-times deliberative paradigm, he proposes a comprehensive re-conceptualization of such innovations, drawing from Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory.
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New publication: Democratic Innovations Administered. The Organisational Embeddedness of Public Administrators’ Attitudes Towards Participatory Policy Making
The prevailing discourse in Deliberative Democracy tends to overlook the pivotal role of public administration in shaping and executing democratic innovations. The new article by Christian Opitz addresses this gap by conceptualising how organisational structures guide public administrators‘ stances on participatory types of deliberative policy making.
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Paper on German public diplomacy presented at EISA PEC 2023
On 8 September 2023 we presented a draft paper “Public Diplomacy in Germany: Engaging the ‘Public’ on Foreign and Security Policy since 1990” (working title) at the 16th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations (PEC).
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New publication: Opportunities to promote peace policy through new participation formats in foreign policy
In our new article in Wissenschaft und Frieden, we discuss efforts to bridge the gap between foreign and security policy and the public and probe their potential for peace policy.
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Paper proposal for the EISA PEC 2023 accepted
Our paper proposal “Domestic Engagement of German Diplomacy: The Development of the State-society Dialogue on Foreign Policy” for the 16th EISA Pan-European conference on international relations (PEC) was accepted. This year the EISA PEC is to be held at the University of Potsdam (Germany), 5-9 September 2023.
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Panel proposal for the 2023 Conference of the research section on International Relations accepted
Our panel proposal “Diplomacy, the Public Sphere and Participation: New Trends in Foreign Policy (Research)” for the 2023 Conference of the research section on International Relations of the German Political Science Association has been accepted.
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