Chair
Dr. Tereza Novotna, Free University Berlin
tereza.novotna@fu-berlin.de
Free University Berlin
Schützenstrasse 14
Berlin 10117
Germany
Vice-Chair
Dr. Silvia Menegazzi, LUISS University Rome
LUISS University Rome
Viale Romania 32
Rome 00197
Italy
Secretary
Dr. Grażyna Strnad, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) Poznan
Background
Recognised as study group in 1996; granted research committee status in 1999.
Objectives
Analyses national divisions and unification processes, an increasingly inseparable aspect of world politics as we understand it with a view to enhancing our understanding of the political dynamics of divided nations; exploring the ways and means of fostering system integration of divided nations; enriching our understanding of unification process from a comparative perspective; recasting the political reality of divided nations into a larger picture of national (or ethnic) integration and disintegration and to look into theoretical, empirical, and policy implications; and providing open fora for mutual interaction and communication among scholars of divided nations, as well as to serve as an effective vehicle to form a viable epistemic community.
