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Multi-level Climate Governance: Effective Climate Action Challenges [read more]

In “More Weapons than Windmills” (Czech Journal of International Relations) Ulv Hanssen and Florentine Koppenborg compare Japan’s military and energy policy response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine. It finds that the war in Ukraine spurred dramatic policy changes in Japan’s defense policy, but only moderate ones in Japan’s green energy transition… [read more]

Florentine Koppenborg was invited to give a book talk about “Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance” at Temple University in Tokyo, Japan, where she presented her findings about how nuclear safety governance reforms after the Fukushima nuclear accident impacted Japan’s nuclear restart politics. Recording available on… [read more]

Theresa Jedd gave an invited talk on U.S. politics and the energy transition on as part of the micro-module Energy Innovation Across the Globe hosted by the University of Stavanger, which is part of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU). Her talk provided insight into partisan politics in the federalist context. [read more]

Florentine Koppenborg has won a hybrid teaching grant from the TUM Pro Lehre Media and Didactics department, which includes technical equipment to retool any seminar room for hybrid teaching as well as funding for a hybrid teaching assistant. [read more]