Welcome to the homepage of our department. Our team researches and teaches various topics of international relations. In particular, we are concerned with political, economic, ecologic and social change as well as the dynamics between Global North and Global South.

The department investigates these topics with a special focus on Latin America.

Research

Our main areas of research are:

Social Inequalities

Analysis of different (inter-)national dimensions of inequality in labor, social and environmental regimes, wealth research, and democracy in an international perspective.
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International Relations & Development

Consideration of political, social, ecological and economic processes in countries of the Global South; UN Sustainable Development Goals today and tomorrow.
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Natural Resources Politics & Extractivism

Analysis of political, economic, and social processes in societies dependent on raw material exports as well as their behavior within the international system.

Sustainable Development & Socio-Ecological Transformation

Studies on the consequences of socio-ecological crises and on the conditions, opportunities and risks of addressing them in a North-South context.

Projects

The department is involved in the following research projects and collaborative research centre:

CALAS

As a Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, CALAS seeks to foment research of interest in the social sciences and humanities in Latin America, applying historical, scientific and systematic approaches and employing transdisciplinary and transregional dialogue.

CELA

As an interdisciplinary research center, the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos pools research on Latin America at the University of Kassel and organizes as well as supports international cooperations, collaborations and various research projects.

CLACSO

The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) is an international non-governmental institution with associative status at UNESCO, created in 1967. It currently brings together 736 research and postgraduate centers in the field of social sciences and humanities in 51 countries in Latin America and other continents.

Publications

Recent publications of our department:
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Articles and Contributions in Edited Volumes 2025

Here, you will find an overview over all our articles and chapters in edited volumes published in 2025. Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt; Dr. Hannes-Warnecke-Berger Dietz,K., Warnecke-Berger, H. & Burchardt, H.-J.…
Grüne-Enegiewende-Publikationen

Grüne Energiewende in Lateinamerika

Burchardt, H.-J.,  Dietz, K. & Warnecke-Berger, H. (2025). Nomos: Baden-Baden Im Kontext von Klimakrise, Dekarbonisierung und Energiewende erlangt Lateinamerika eine neue geopolitische Bedeutung. Zum einen ist die Region als Lieferant…
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News

The department informs about the following news:
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Georg Forster Research Award to Maristella Svampa

The Argentine sociologist Maristella Svampa, professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Buenos Aires), will receive this year’s prestigious Georg Forster Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.…
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Our Team

The team of the Department presents itself:
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT..Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt is Chair of the Department of International and Inter-Society Relations at the University of Kassel. He has many years of experience with joint projects ...

Dr. Jochen Kemner

PROJECT CALAS / UNIVERSITÄT GUADALAJARA. Jochen Kemner is the Scientific Director of the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in Guadalajara, Mexico. After completing a master's degree in ...

Dr. Luiza Cerioli

POST-DOC. Luíza Cerioli is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the collaborative research project etractivism.de at University of Kassel. She focuses on International Relations of the Middle East and foreign policy of ...
Johann Eschenburg

Johann Eschenburg

DOCTORAL RESEARCHER. Johann Eschenburg is a research associate in the extractivism.de project network at the University of Kassel. He studied Political Science and ...

Dr. Dimitris Soudias

POST-DOC. Dr. Dimitris Soudias is a Walter Benjamin Fellow in the Globalization and Politics Division at the University of Kassel, and an affiliated researcher in the Chair Group European Culture and ...
Anja Habersang

Anja Habersang

DOCTORAL RESEARCHER. Anja Habersang is a scientific coordinator at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) at the University of Kassel. In her doctoral research, she analyses how social actors ...

Dr. Sebastian Matthes

ADJUNKT PROFESSOR. Dr. Sebastian Matthes is adjunct professor for international and intersocietal relations at the University of Kassel, standing in for Prof. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt...

Dr. Hannes Warnecke-Berger

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER. Dr. Hannes Warnecke-Berger is post-doc researcher at University of Kassel. His current research focuses on the role of migrant remittances. In this project, El Salvador, ...

Dr. Rebeca Ramos Padrón

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER. Dr. Rebeca Ramos Padrón is a postdoctoral researcher within the CALAS-Laboratory Project Confronting Inequalities in Latin America: Perspectives on Wealth and Power ...
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Jan Ickler

DOCTORAL RESEARCHER. Jan Ickler is researcher and PhD-Candidate at the University of Kassel and is coordinator at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) ...

Marlen Ott

DOCTORAL RESEARCHER. Marlen Ott is researcher and PhD-Candidate at the University of Kassel. She previously completed her Master's degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology
Jan Michael Vogt

Jan Michael Vogt

PROJECT COORDINATOR CALAS. Department of international and inter-social relations at the University of Kassel. Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the ...

Nicole Magura

OFFICE of Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt International and Inter-Societal Relations at the University of Kassel.

Dr. Philip Fehling

COORDINATION CALAS.Philip Fehling is scientific coordinator of the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) at the University of Kassel. He studied political science, public law and ...

CONTACT

Department of international and inter-social relations at the University of Kassel

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt · Room 3207

Universität Kassel – Fachbereich 05 – Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Nora-Platiel-Straße 1 · 34127 Kassel

Nicole Magura | Office

Phone: +49 561 804-3253
Fax: +49 561 804-3464
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