BAK9-BAK16 Block of Alternative Compulsory Modules: Specialisation (27 ECTS)

BAK9 Political Theories and Research on Theories (9 ECTS)

• 210062 VO BAK9: SpezialVO Political Theories and Research on Theories - Politics of the Performative: Void Event Alterity in Butler, Derrida, Badiou, Levinas et al.
• 210063 SE BAK9: Political Theories and Research on Theories - Classical contract theories put to the test. Critique of the legitimation of power from feminist, anti-racist and subaltern perspectives
• 210064 SE [ en ] BAK9: Political Theories and Research on Theories - Assembly and body politics
• 210065 SE BAK9: Political Theories and Research on Theories - Institutions and counter-institutions: Political structures and democratic alternatives

BAK10 International Politics and Development (9 ECTS)

• 210066 VO BAK10: SpezialVO International Politics and Development - Sustainable production & consumption: transformation and conflicts
• 210067 SE BAK10: International Politics and Development - International Political Economy: Current Dynamics of the USA and the UK
• 210068 SE BAK10: International Politics and Development - Gender justice and equality in international comparison
• 210069 SE BAK10: International Politics and Development - Introduction to peace and conflict research
• 210070 SE BAK10: International Politics and Development - Political ecology of resource policy - climate, conflicts, alternatives
• 210071 SE BAK10 International Politics and Development - Introduction to International Political Economy: Globalization and its Crises
• 210116 SE BAK10 International Politics and Development - Development strategy in the Global South: Rent- and commodity-based development models and their alternatives
• 210172 SE [ en ] BAK10 International Politics and Development: War, Memory and Politics in East Asia - (engl.)

BAK11 European Union and Europeanisation (9 ECTS)

• 210072 VO BAK11: SpezialVO European Union and Europeanisation - Austria and the EU
• 210073 SE BAK11: European Union and Europeanisation - EU market and economy in the digital age
• 210074 SE [ en ] BAK11: European Union and Europeanisation - The EU external relations in the Mediterranean
• 210075 SE BAK11: European Union and Europeanisation - Actors and interests in European politics
• 210173 SE [ en ] BAK11 European Union and Europeanisation - EU-China Relations - Discourses and Policies in Brussels and Beijing

BAK12 Austrian Politics (9 ECTS)

• 210076 VO BAK12: SpezialVO Austrian Politics - Vienna Urban Politics
• 210077 SE BAK12: Austrian Politics - Party financing in Austria
• 210078 SE BAK12: Austrian Politics - (Coalition) governments in Austria
• 210079 SE BAK12: Austrian Politics - Austrian Asylum and Border Politics
• 210174 SE BAK12 Austrian Politics - Austria's 2024 National Council elections and the 2024 European Parliament elections: Quality of democracy and its prospects.

BAK13 State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses (9 ECTS)

• 210080 VO BAK13: SpezialVO State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses: Theories of Party Competition
• 210081 SE [ en ] BAK13: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Coalition Governments: Formation, Governance, Termination.
• 210082 SE [ en ] BAK13: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Political Participation
• 210083 SE BAK13: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses: Technocracy and party government
• 210166 SE BAK13 State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Police and Visual Technologies - Police Accountability and Oversight as topics of Social and Political Science

BAK14 Gender and Politics (9 ECTS)

• 210084 VO [ en ] BAK14: Spezial VO Gender and Politics - Introduction to Gender and Politics
• 210085 SE BAK14: Gender and Politics: Feminisms and political science in Europe - Feminismen und Politikwissenschaft in Europa
• 210086 SE BAK14: Gender and Politics: Violence and knowledge: decolonial and queer feminist reflections

BAK15 East European Studies (9 ECTS)

• 210087 VO [ en ] BAK15: SpezialVO East European Studies: Eastern Europe in the Global Economy
• 210088 SE [ en ] BAK15: East European Studies (Un)civil society in South Eastern Europe
• 210089 SE BAK15: East European - Welfare states and gender regimes. Theoretical Fundamentals and Transformation in Eastern Europe
• 210170 SE BAK15 East European Studies - The EU Easter expansion 2.0

BAK16 Culture and Politics (9 ECTS)

• 210090 VO BAK16: SpezialVO Culture and Politics: Politics and Popular Culture
• 210091 SE BAK16: Culture and Politics - Austrianization. On the popular cultural production of national identity
• 210092 SE BAK16: Culture and Politics: Urban Studies as Power Studies
• 210093 SE BAK16: Culture and Politics: Political storytelling