Chair
Dr. Tereza Novotna, Free University Berlin
tereza.novotna@fu-berlin.de
Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Ihnestraße 26
Berlin
14195
Germany
Vice-Chair
Dr. Heike Hermanns
hdhermanns@yahoo.com
Westhauser Str 86
Remscheid
42857
Germany
Treasurer
Prof. Marceli Burdelski, Polish Political Science Association
polmb@ug.edu.pl
4/3 Podlesna
Gdansk, Pomeranian 80-255
Poland
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.
