Research

In the social sciences faculty, it is directly linked to the , which hosts , the. In the humanities faculty, the programme’s home is found in the .

In recent years, the focus has been especially on studying

• boundaries, regions and identities in Europe
• different narratives of Europe
• European legal traditions
• the construction of post-Cold War Europe
• the politics of memory
• political violence in post-war Europe

Many of these themes are also strongly present in the field of Nordic studies. This field has traditionally had a distinctly European flavour. Research projects in recent years have, for example, focused on imagology of the European North and South, Nordic welfare state/ism, the politics of neutrality, and Nordic cooperation in a global comparative perspective. For further details about specific research projects, publications, networks etc please see ,  and .