Dahrendorf Scholars and Essays
The 2025 Dahrendorf Scholars
Mohamed Asim
Diplomatic Juggling Act: India, the EU, and the Russia-Ukraine Puzzle
Natalia Zhdanova
The Influence of the Russian Orthodox Church on Kremlin Policy in Europe
Chaya Steinsaltz
The “Enemy Within” and Beyond: How Hungary’s Autocratic Regime has Influenced Trumpism.
The 2024 Dahrendorf Scholars
Leonhard Xu
How China’s Belt and Road Initiative Changed the Allocation of EU Development Assistance
Xiaona Wang
Trust on Trial? Chinese Students in Europe Amid Geopolitical Uncertainty
Katharina Krause
Title: TBD
The 2022-23 Dahrendorf Scholars
Abid Adonis
Ordering the Digital World: Europe and the Global South in Digital Politics
Julia Carver
(Re)bordering Europe in the Digital Decade: Mapping the EU’s development as a global cyber actor
Olivier de France
The Contested Concept of Political Freedom
Talia Kollek
‘So-Call Gender Freedoms’: The Western Origins of Russian Transphobia
Alexandra Solovyev
British Repatriation of Cultural Property from the Nineteenth Century to Today
Ruihan Zhu
Chinese and European Approaches to Climate Change
The 2021 Dahrendorf Scholars
Iyone Agboraw
Identity: Betwixt Silence, Choice, and Fear
Laura Ballerini
Can Medical Humanitarianism Ever Be Neutral?
David Saveliev
False Promises and Real Hopes: What the Belarusian Protests of 2020 Can Tell Europe
The 2020 Dahrendorf Scholars
Valerie Gutmann
Ellen Leafstedt
“Why Russia is Europe and the EU… Not So Much”: The Reimagining of Russia’s Place in Europe
Reja Wyss
The 2019 Dahrendorf Scholars
Jihane Benamar
Never Again the “Gendarme of Europe”? Morocco’s Changing Regional Role and the Migration Question
Maeve Moynihan
Project Ireland 2040: The Freedom of Movement in Ireland’s Future Vision of Itself
Auguste Breteau
The 2018 Dahrendorf Scholars
Robert Gorwa
GLASNOST! Nine Ways Facebook Can Make Itself a Better Forum for Free Speech and Democracy
Yasmina Abouzzohour
Red Lines in the Kingdoms of Benevolent Dictators: The Role of Freedom of Speech in the Potential Pathways to Democracy in Different Authoritarian Settings
Milica Radovic
The Yugoslav Wars as a Taboo in the Western Balkans
The 2017 Dahrendorf Scholars
Xiaoyu Lu
Double Dissidents: Chinese Students Returning from the West
Jonathan Raspe
Das wird man ja wohl noch kritisieren dürfen! Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Criticism in Germany, or Why the Jews are to Blame for the AfD
William Allen
Representing Freedom and Force: How Data Visualisations Convey the Complex Realities of Migration
The 2016 Dahrendorf Scholars
Helen Haft
Article 148 – The Aftermath of Punk-Prayer
Iris Nxumalo-De Smidt
Epistemic Communities of Freedom in Sub-Saharan Africa: Negotiating and Refashioning Womanhood in Africa
Renzhi Li
Reading Isaiah Berlin in China
The 2015 Dahrendorf Scholars
Monika Richter
Western Support for Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Jalal Imran
Violence and Non-Violence in the Arab Spring
Suzanne Robin
Dieudonné: Free Speech Gone Wild
The 2014 Dahrendorf Scholars
Ava Hess
Covering the Aesthetics of Resistance: The Fashioning of ‘Bad-Hejab’ Stereotypes in Online Media
Max Gallien
Last Thoughts of Al-Bernameg: Bassem Youssef and the Egyptian Struggle for Freedom of Speech
Yu Tao
‘Religious Diversity’ in Contemporary Chinese Scholarship
The 2013 Dahrendorf Scholars
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart
From Hate Speech to Self-Censorship: The Role of the Media in Kenya’s 2007 & 2013 Elections
Bassam Gergi
For Jobs and Freedom, 50 years on: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the Age of Obama
Rory McCarthy
Who is Threatening Free Speech in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia?
The 2012 Dahrendorf Scholars
Annabelle Chapman
Towards a ‘Parallel Polis’? Creating Freedom in Belarus
Andrew Clark
The Successes and Failures of Egyptian Secularism
Rutger Kaput
The Wilders Case: A Politician on Trial
The 2011 Dahrendorf Scholars
Jacob Amis
“Quiet Spring”: Jordan and the 2011 Arab Uprising
Katharine Engelhart
The 2010 Dahrendorf Scholars
Dominic Burbidge
A Letter from a Young Christian to a Liberal
Andreas Knab
A Bargain with Fate: To Diffuse the Threat of Online Jihadism, We Must Stick to Our Guns
Christopher Kutarna
Democracy, Unbundled Objectivity, Subjectivity, and the Search for Common Ground
