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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. Bielefeld offers specialized undergraduate and graduate programmes in political science. Moreover, political science forms an integral part of the undergraduate programme in social sciences, in some specialized graduate studies, and in the structured doctoral degree programmes of the Faculty. Disciplinary fields within political science represented by professorships are International Relations, Comparative Politics, Public Policy, 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.