MASTER PROGRAMME

PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES

In cooperation with the "Arbeitsstelle Menschenrechte" a new lecture series will be launched in the winter term 2018/19.

On the 20th of November 2018 Valerie Waldow will start the lecture series with a presentation on human rights protection and democracy in the mirror of global governance. On the 11th of December, a lecture by Prof. Dr. Christian Neuhäuser on human rights obligations of companies will follow and Dr. Kristina Roepstorff will close the event on the 15th of January 2019 with a lecture on the human rights discourse in the context of maritime migration.

Trump, Brexit & “Post-Truth”: How Post-Structuralist IR Theories can help us understand World Order in the 21st century

• Author(s): Alexander Spencer and Judith Renner
• Source: Journal of Political Science 
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41358-018-0154-z
  
  

In this article Prof. Dr. Alexander Spencer and Dr. Judith Renner want to reect on by considering what IR theory has to say about “(post)-truth” as a situation “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less inuential in shaping public opinion than app eals to emotion and per sonal belief".

Hello, my name is Jonas Rusche, I am a current student of Peace and Conflict Studies in Magdeburg and will be the new student coordinator or tutor for this Master degree. To start with, I want to briefly introduce myself. Coming from ...

In this article Prof. Dr. Alexander Spencer shows how the rebellion against Gaddafi in Libya in 2011 was romanticized in the British newspaper media and among the political elite.