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Tanja Börzel is a Professor of Political Science and head of the European Integration Research Unit at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin. She is the spokesperson for the Excellence Cluster "Contestation of the Liberal Script" and serves as the director of the Berlin Center for European Studies, including the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, "The EU Citizens." Börzel earned her PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute in Florence in 1999. Her teaching and research experiences span institutions such as the Max Planck Project Group for Common Goods Law in Bonn, Humboldt University in Berlin, and Heidelberg University. Her research focuses on European integration, governance, and diffusion studies, particularly the institutional changes arising from Europeanization and the diffusion of EU norms and policies beyond its borders. Börzel also examines governance without state authority and the challenges to liberal norms, particularly academic freedom in democratic societies. Her recent publications include “Governance Anarchy: Effective Legitimate Areas Limited Statehood” (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and “Non-compliance: Politics Law European Union” (Cornell University Press, 2021).
Freie Universität Berlin • Berlin, Germany
Professor of Political Science at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science.
Max Planck Project Group for Common Goods Law • Bonn, Germany
Conducted research on common goods law.
Humboldt University • Berlin, Germany
Taught and conducted research on political science.
Heidelberg University • Heidelberg, Germany
Taught and conducted research on political science.
Administered by the Department of Political and Social Sciences.