Cluster of Excellence: Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS, 2019-2025)

Tanja A. Börzel

Jan 01, 2019 — Dec 31, 2025

SCRIPTS is a Cluster of Excellence funded by the German Research Foundation - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)  over a time span of seven years. In addition to Freie Universität Berlin , the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) , five other ...

Europe’s External Action and the Dual Challenges of Limited Statehood and Contested Orders (EU-LISTCO, 2018-2021)

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse, Tanja A. Börzel

The European Commission has provided funding of five million euros to the FU Berlin in order to conduct research on „Europe’s External Action and the Dual Challenges of Limited Statehood and Contested Orders”.  EU-LISTCO research was funded as part of the EU/ Horizon 2020 project. Since ...

A 'Common Sense Revolution?' Eurosceptic Contestations in the European Parliament (2019)

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel, Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp

This research project studies contestations within the EU political system, namely that of Eurosceptic parties within European Parliament. The research focuses on how Eurosceptic contestations evolve within political institutions as well as how Eurosceptic party positions evolve at the EU and national level in the EP.

The European Union and Eastern Partnership Countries - An Inside-Out Analysis and Strategic Assessment (EU-STRAT, 2016-2019)

Tanja A. Börzel

Why has the European Union fallen short of creating peace, prosperity and stability in its Eastern neighbourhood? And how can the EU support political and economic change in Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, such as Ukraine, Belarus or Moldova? Against the background of the war in Ukraine and ...

Research College: Transformative Power of Europe (2008-2018)

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse

Object of Research The diffusion of ideas has become a central research theme in political science, sociology, law, history, and economics. Scholars have focused on how ideas are spread across time and space, as can be observed especially in the European Union in various sociopolitical fields. ...

SFB 700 Research Project B2 - The Governance Contribution of External Actors in Areas of Limited Statehood Phase I, II and III (2006-2017)

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel

The B2 research project inquired into the circumstances under which external actors contribute to effective and legitimate governance in areas of limited statehood. The project assumed that the empirical legitimacy of external actors, the degree of institutionalization of governance ...

Maximizing the integration capacity of the European Union: Lessons and prospects for enlargement and beyond (MAXCAP, 2013-2016)

Tanja A. Börzel

Description   The ‘big bang enlargement’ of the European Union (EU) has nurtured vivid debates among both academics and practitioners about the consequences of ‘an ever larger Union’ for the EU’s integration capacity. The research project MAXCAP started with a critical analysis of the ...

TRANSWORLD - Redefining the transatlantic relationship and its role in shaping global governance (2012-2015)

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse, Prof. Dr. Carina Sprungk Dr. Nelli Babayan

TRANSWORLD is a consortium of 13 academic and research centres from the EU, the US and Turkey formed to research the evolution of the transatlantic relationship and its role in shaping global governance architectures. TRANSWORLD is going to unfold for three and a half years, started in March ...

Policy matters - but why? Explaining non-compliance with European law across sectors (2012-2014)

Tanja A. Börzel

The causes of violations of law beyond the nation state by certain states have been well studied . The sometimes considerable variance between different policy sectors (policy non - compliance) has so far remained largely neglected . Why do the EU ...

SFB 700 Research Project D2 - Phase I and II (2006-2013)

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel

D2 Phase I: Fostering Regulation? Corporate Social Responsibility in Countries With Weak Regulatory Capacity (2006-2009) Multinational corporations are commonly seen as forces driving the deregulation of social and environmental standards in globalised markets. On the contrary, our sub-project ...

Public Policy, Business and International Change in the Context of Climate Change: A Comparative Perspective on Climate Change Governance in South Africa, Kenya and Germany (2010-2012)

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel, Prof. Ralph Hamann

Why do business organisations contribute to climate change governance in areas of limited statehood? In many countries, governments are too weak and often also not willing to set and enforce climate change regulations. While companies have the capacities to fill the resulting governance gap, ...

Jean Monet Center of Excellence “The EU and its Citizens” (2009-2012)

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel

From 2009 to 2012 the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "The EU and its Citizens" linked the expertise and research activities on European Integration at the Freie Universität Berlin. The scholars from four different disciplines (political science, law, sociology, and communication science) ...

Berlin Center for European Studies (BEST, 2008-2012)

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel

Through FU-BEST (Freie Universitaet Berlin European Studies), Freie Universitaet Berlin has been offering students from abroad deeper insights into Germany as well as (Central) Europe since the fall of 2005. The two-semester schedule (Fall and/or Spring, with the option of subsequent enrolment in ...

Think Tank without Borders/Europe and Global Challenges (2009-2010)

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel, SIPRI, Stockholm

Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Politics (2006-2009)

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel

Prof. Tanja A. Börzel was assigned a Jean Monnet Chair in 2006 by the European Commission. Holders of this award have proven excellence in the academic and research field of European Integration. This award involves a funding, that allows to expand teaching activities in the field of European ...

SEEIRA - 'Smoothing' Eastern Enlargements: Independent Regulatory Agencies and Non-Hierarchical Steering (2004-2007)

Tanja A. Börzel

The project examined the role of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) and non-hierarchical steering in the process of adopting and adapting to EU policies in Central Eastern (Poland, Hungary) and Southern European member states (Greece). It was part of the EU-Integrated Project "New Modes of ...

Coping with Accession: New Forms of Governance and European Enlargement (2004-2007)

Tanja A. Börzel

The project explored how transition countries in Southern Europe and Central and Eastern Europe have coped with the challenge of accession. In particular, the study set out to analyze the role of New Modes of Governance in the adoption of and adaptation to selected EU policies in the field of ...

Non-compliance with law beyond the nation-state (2002-2006)

Tanja A. Börzel

This four-year project funded by the German Research Council analysed conditions under which states do (not) comply with law beyond the nation-state. It developed hypotheses for explaining non-compliance from the existing literature and tests them systematically for the area of European law. We ...

Humanitarian Impact of Conflict Dynamics (2004)

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel