News archive for Department of Comparative Politics

Europe is in the middle of a demanding new security situation that will quickly change how private companies, the public sector and politicians think about the region's security. How should European institutions and actors relate to the United States, Russia and anti-democratic forces from within? And what should the public sector and private companies do to confront these new challenges?

In the spring semester of 2024, Charles Haines stepped out of his comfort zone in Chapel Hill to study comparative politics at the University of Bergen. Read about his exchange experience here.

COST Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and beyond. Sampol's Linn Sandberg and Arjan Schakel are both involved in their respective Cost Action Project.

Scholars from the Department of Comparative Politics contributed to the recently published Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour.

Lili Katharina visited Bergen and Sampol for a semester: – Norway is a very inclusive and diverse country, and it was wonderful to see how everyone is included in its national holiday.

«If climate policies want to be successful, they must be about more than climate,» professor Michaël Tatham says.

Itay is taking a PhD at UNC Chapel Hill. This semester he is visiting Sampol.

Aaron Spitzer’s ERC project, CONFRONT, has started. Over a period of five years, the project will explore arising conflicts between settlers and indigenous peoples.