About

The University of Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt, an Eastern German Land, is a relatively new institution, founded in the 1990s. The Institute of Political Science forms part of the Faculty of the Humanities with some 3,000 students. In teaching, the Institute of Political Science, together with the Institute of Sociology, runs BA and MA courses on social sciences. In addition, there are interdisciplinary study programmes on European Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies. Prominent research areas of the Institute are European integration, party politics, federalism and regionalism, human rights, peace and conflict studies.