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Political science in Bielefeld is traditionally embedded in the Faculty of Sociology. This organizational embedding is also expressed in a strong sociological orientation of political science research and teaching. While there exists specialized undergraduate and graduate programmes in political science, political science also forms an integral part of the undergraduate programme in social sciences, as well as in some specialized graduate and in the structured doctoral degree programmes of the Faculty. Disciplinary fields within political science represented by professorships are International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Theory, European Studies, Political Sociology, and Global Social Policy. In addition to a strong sociological orientation, there also exists a long tradition of studying political processes in a global context, most notably in the Faculty’s interdisciplinary Institute for World Society Studies.