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Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies

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A unique postdoctoral programme in the historical and social sciences in Europe

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The MWP organizes book roundtables, conferences, lectures, multidisciplinary research workshops and academic practice activities.

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News

Catherine Lefèvre wins poster prize at CIVICA Research Conference

Catherine Lefèvre, EUI Max Weber Fellow at the History Department, is the winner of the poster competition hosted by the Central European University (CEU) in the framework of the first CIVICA Research Conference. The event took place on 1-2 September at the CEU’s Budapest campus.

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Fellows Publications

Have a look at the recent publications (monographs, articles, etc.) of our current and former Max Weber Fellows.

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Book

Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop

Settling for Less uncovers the internal dynamics of settler colonialism and the diminishing power of colonizers in a rapidly urbanizing world. Contrasting...

Lachlan McNamee (MW Fellow 2020-2021)
2023

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Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop

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Investment Governance between the Energy Charter Treaty and the European Union

Against the background of climate change, the Energy Charter Treaty and the law and policy of the European Union are no longer fully aligned with each other: in the case of a conflict in the area...

Ottavio Quirico (MW Fellow 2008-2009)
The Netherlands: Brill, Nijhoff, 2021

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Investment Governance between the Energy Charter Treaty and the European Union

Book

Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict

With its contextualized analysis of the European Court of Human Rights' (ECtHR) engagement in Turkey's Kurdish conflict since the early 1990s, Limits of Supranational Justice makes a much-needed...

Dilek Kurban (MW Fellow 2021-2022)
Cambridge UP, 2020

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Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict

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Towards a Peremptory Duty to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

Is international law developing towards the recognition of a peremptory obligation for States and international organizations to stabilize anthropogenic greenhouse gas (“GHG”)...

Ottavio Quirico (MW Fellow 2008-2009)
44 Fordham International Law Journal, 923 (2021)

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Towards a Peremptory Duty to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

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The Making of a Holocaust Denier: Ingrid Rimland, Mennonites, and Gender in White Supremacy, 1945–2000

The novelist Ingrid Rimland became a prominent Holocaust denier in North America during the 1990s. Before embracing neo-Nazism, Rimland won acclaim within the Mennonite church—the Christian...

Benjamin Goossen (MW Fellow 2020-2021)
Antisemitism Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Fall 2021)

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The Making of a Holocaust Denier: Ingrid Rimland, Mennonites, and Gender in White Supremacy, 1945–2000
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Max Weber Alumni Network

The Max Weber Programme is a global programme in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

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