Doctoral Researcher (MSCA), Russia's Role in Promoting Illiberal Governance University of Helsinki in Finland

Nord University in Bodø, Norway, invites applications for 1–2 temporary, full-time PhD Research Fellow positions in Social Science specializing in Arctic Security and Preparedness. The PhD project explores how experiences of war and emerging technologies have shaped ideas about security, preparedness, and threat in the North. It welcomes historically and politically grounded research on Arctic geopolitics, great-power rivalry, external actors, governance, securitisation, democratic resilience, h...

INFLUENCE is an MSCA Doctoral Network on Russian influence in Europe’s periphery, bringing together five universities across Europe and combining interdisciplinary expertise in political science, international relations, sociology, history, media studies, security studies, area studies, and political economy. The University of Helsinki project focuses on how migration is used as a tool of influence and destabilisation in Europe’s eastern periphery. The doctoral researcher will investigate how Ru...

The Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies (BGTS) at Freie Universität Berlin is a full-time doctoral programme within the Cluster of Excellence Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS). It is offered in cooperation with the Hertie School, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), and the Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS). BGTS is ...

TIES2 COFUND at the University of Turku is inviting applications for seven postdoctoral fellowship positions (title: Senior Researcher ) within the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) in Finland . The call is open to projects in any discipline within TIAS’s five constituent faculties, with the post text highlighting Law and Sociology as the listed research fields. Fellows will design and carry out their own three-year research project, starting 1 September 2027, and will also complete a ...

Two PhD positions are available with Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt at the University of Zurich for a new project titled “Governing the Party: How the Chinese Communist Party Holds Itself Together” . The positions are based in the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies (IAOS) and are part of an SNSF-funded research project. The project focuses on Chinese politics , party governance , and the internal organization of the Chinese Communist Party , making it especially relevant for applicants inter...