- European Integration
- Theories of European Integration
- EU Negotiations and Decision-making
- The EU as International Actor
- Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)Enlargement (2004, 2007, 2013, and beyond)
- Institutional Reform and Future of the EU
- Asylum and Migration Policies
- Regional Integration within and beyond Europe
- Rule of Law and Corruption in the (new) Member States
- EU-US-China Relations
- Foreign and Security Policy
- Transatlantic Relations
- US Foreign and World Policy, focusing not only but also on domestic roots of foreign politics and US-China relations
- Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy
- Theories of international relations
- International organisation and Regimes
- Media and International Politics
- Sports / Soccer and International Relations
- Peace and Conflict Research
Habilitation projects
Development Policy between Securitization and Financial Crisis: US, UK and Germany Compared (in German) (Alexander Brand).
"Rule of Law and Compliance in Central and Eastern Europe" (Petra Guasti).
PhD projects
"Bargaining for Peace – The European Union as a Mediator in Peace Negotiations" (Julian Bergmann). Supervisor: Arne Niemann.
"Integration for Development: The New Regionalism in Southern Africa" (Johannes Muntschick). Supervisor:Thomas Gehring (University of Bamberg).
"The EP - An Institution Shapes Itself" (Dennis Voll). Supervisor: Arne Niemann
„Understanding Coalition Strategies – Two-Level Negotiations within Israel’s Multi-Party Democracy“ (Helge Eikelmann). Betreut von Arne Niemann
„EU Performance in the Neighbourhood – The Effectiveness of the European Union in the ENP“ (Nils Hoffmann). Betreut von Arne Niemann
Further research projects
Europeanisation and Football as Carrier of Identity Change (Arne Niemann / Alexander Brand)
Human Rights in Europe and their Violations: Cross National Multidisciplinary Analysis (Petra Guasti / David Siroky – Arizona State University / Daniel Stockemer- University of Ottawa)