Round table discussion

What career opportunities are open to graduates in political science? What qualifications are expected of political scientists at their first job? Is a bachelor's degree enough to compete in today's job market? Or is a master's degree needed for career growth? These and other questions will be answered by graduated political scientists working in different fields. They will speak about their working life and give advice on how to manage the transition from student to working life successfully. The event takes place in the context of the mentoring program of the Institute of Political Science. The flyer can be found here.

Thursday, 11 December 2014 | 16:30 - 18:30
LB 134 | Campus Duisburg

Hop on and let's take a ride across Southeast Europe. The Southeast Europe Association (SOG) continues its documentary series with Croatia and Moldova. The screening will be followed by audience discussion. For more information, please click here.

Croatia: Twilight of Heroes
09.12.2014 | 16:30 s.t. | LF 310 (Rotunde)

Moldova: Lost in Transition
13.01.2015 | 16:30 s.t. | LF 310 (Rotunde)

On 4 December, Oliver Schwarz will give a public lecture on the enlargement policy of the European Union. The lecture takes place in the framework of the course "Introduction to European integration" by Prof. Dr. Michael Kaeding. All are welcome at this public lecture.

04.12.2014 | MD 162 (Campus Duisburg) | 16:00 s.t.

With the beginning of lectures consultation hours of Oliver Schwarz will take place in LF 321 Tuesdays from 10:00 to 11:00 beginning on 21 October 2014 and ending on 10 February 2015. To make an appointment, please click here.

At this year's annual conference of the Institute for European Politics (IEP) and the Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration (AEI) Oliver Schwarz will participate at the panel discussion on "The future role of enlargement policy as an instrument of EU foreign policy". The conference will take place from 25 to 26 September in the Representation of Saarland in Berlin. For more information, please click here.

Jean-Claude Junckers announcement of his team is not a revolution but it represents nothing less than a fundamental change in the prevailing architecture of the European Commission. A comment of Oliver Schwarz on the President-elect's approach to portfolios and management can be found on Regierungsforschung.de.

The consultation hours of Oliver Schwarz during semester break are online available on Doodle. To make an appointment, please click here.

On 27 June the European Union signed far-reaching association and free trade agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. On that occasion Oliver Schwarz gave an interview to the European Radio Network Euranet Plus. The full feature is available at the Euranet Plus online online archive (in German).

Oliver Schwarz and Lea Santkiewitsch present their third and last prediction on the outcome of the European elections 2014 on Regierungsforschung.de. The results in a nutshell: Although Eurosceptic parties will do well in the elections, they will not undermine the ability to work of the European Parliament. The complete results of their study are available here (in German).

In the run-up to the European elections, Oliver Schwarz gave an interview to the student radio station "CampusFM" at the University of Duisburg-Essen. The feature is available at the radio's podcast feed.

Oliver Schwarz will present the paper "Making a(ny) difference? Analyzing the (non-)respect of European core norms across the EU" co-authored with Michael Kaeding at the 10th ECSA-C biennial conference in Montreal on 8-10 May 2014. For more information, please click here.

Oliver Schwarz and Lea Santkiewitsch present their updated prediction on the outcome of the European elections 2014 on Regierungsforschung.de. The results in a nutshell: The EPP Group is maintaining a slight lead over the S&D. The complete results of their study are available here(in German).

The Rheinische Post reports on the results of the teaching research project "20 Years of European Citizenship: Progress And Challenges" of Oliver Schwarz in its online edition. The article can be found on RP Online(in German).

On accasion of the European Week Oliver Schwarz gives a presentation on the state of the European Union to pupils of the Reinhard-und-Max-Mannesmann-Gymnasium in Duisburg. For more information on the European School, please click here. Press reports on this event can be found on Der Westen and RP Online (in German).

The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reports on the results of the teaching research project "20 Years of European Citizenship: Progress And Challenges" of Oliver Schwarz in its online edition. The article can be found on Der Westen(in German).

On the basis of national surveys Oliver Schwarz and Lea Santkiewitsch present a prediction on the outcome of the European Elections 2014. The results in a nutshell: In the forthcoming weeks Europe faces a neck-and-neck race between Socialists and EPP. Against the background of an EU-wide rise in Euroscepticism the election of the next president of the European Commission will be of outstanding importance. Their paper (in German) is available here.

On 28 April the second dialogue forum of the teaching research project "20 Years of European Citizenship: Progress And Challenges" takes place. The project is funded by Stiftung Mercator. Discussants are the city council members Martina Amann-Hilberath (Die Linke), Wilhelm Bies (FDP), Jürgen C. Brandt (SPD), Rainer Enzweiler (CDU), Stephan Krebs (DWG), Claudia Leiße (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). Please click here for further information (in German).

With the beginning of lectures consultation hours of Oliver Schwarz will take place in LF 321 Tuesdays from 10:30 to 11:30 beginning on 8 April and ending on 15 July. To make an appointment, please click here.

On 22 March Oliver Schwarz takes part at the congress "Poverty migration from Southeast Europe. Possibilities and risks of the freedom of movement" organized by the Junge Union NRW. He will discuss the issue together with Thomas Mahlberg, MP and chairman of the Duisburg local branch of the CDU, Roman Franz, chairman of the State Association of German Sinti and Roma NRW and Diane Jägers, town councilor of Dortmund. The event takes place from 14:00 Uhr at the conference center "Der Kleine Prinz" in Duisburg. For more information, please click here (in German).

Markus Porsche-Ludwig, Jürgen Bellers, Wolfgang Gieler (eds.)
Handbuch Europäischer Sozialpolitiken
Münster: LIT Verlag 2014
ISBN 978-3-643-12503-3

This handbook gives a comprehensive introduction to the social policies in selected nation-states of Europe. All contributions have a common structure: historical developments and characteristics, basic data and organizations as well as current social sector politics. In his contribution Oliver Schwarz portrays the social policy in Greece.

Werner Weidenfeld, Wolfgang Wessels (eds.)
Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2013
Baden-Baden: Nomos 2013
ISBN 978-3-8487-0518-4

The Yearbook of European Integration from the Institute for European Politics has since 1980 closely documented and analysed the process of European integration. For the fifth time in a row Oliver Schwarz portrays in his contribution the latest developments in the EU's accession candidate Macedonia.

On the occasion of the Macedonian parliament's dissolution on 5 March Oliver Schwarz gave an interview to the international broadcaster "Deutsche Welle". Early elections are now scheduled for 27 April. The parliamentary elections will coincide with the second round of the regular presidential elections. The first round of the presidential elections takes place on 13 April. Parts of the interview can be found here (in Macedonian).

On the occasion of the judgement of the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe on the three-percent threshold for European elections, on 26 February Oliver Schwarz gave an interview to the radio station "SR 2 Kulturradio". His conversation with moderator Kai Schmieding is available here (in German).

On the occasion of the judgement of the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe on the three-percent threshold for European elections, on 26 February Oliver Schwarz gave an interview to the radio station "SR 3 Saarlandwelle". Parts of his interview can be found here (in German).

On 26 February Oliver Schwarz holds a lecture on "Germany and Europe: Elections in Times of Crisis" at the Radboud University Nijmegen. His presentation is part of the lecture series "Questions for the 21st Century" and will take place from 13:45 to 15:30 in Erasmus Building, Room 2.51.

The consultation hours of Oliver Schwarz during semester break are online available on Doodle. To make an appointment, please click here.

The "WAZ" reports on the the first dialogue forum of Oliver Schwarz' teaching research project "20 Years of European Citizenship: Progress And Challenges" in its print edition from 6 February. The article can be found in the University's intern press review (in German).

The "WAZ" reports on the the first dialogue forum of Oliver Schwarz' teaching research project "20 Years of European Citizenship: Progress And Challenges" in its online edition from 5 February. The article can be found on DerWesten (in German).

On 4 February the first dialogue forum of the teaching research project "20 Years of European Citizenship: Progress And Challenges" takes place. Discussants are city council member Martina Ammann-Hilberath, the journalist David Huth, Dr. Stephan Koppelberg, European Commission head of the Regional Representation in Bonn, Prof. Dr. Susanne Pickel, Professor for comparative politics and the head of the Europa-Union Duisburg-Mülheim-Niederrhein, Brigitte Timmer. Please click here for the press release (in German).

The "Rheinische Post" reports on the teaching research project "20 Years of European Citizenship: Progress And Challenges" of Oliver Schwarz in its print edition from 9 January. The article can be found in the University's intern press review (in German).