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Subproject C01
Extended Security - Changes of Statehood after 1970

3. Funding period (2022-2025)

The subproject focuses on the connections and interactions between the dynamics of expanded security and processes of changing statehood from a transnational and international perspective between 1970 and 2000. The starting point is the linkage of the political and social debate on "expanded security" with the international crisis experience of the mid-1970s. Both factors confronted the national state and its territorially determined statehood with new insecurities and threats to which it could only react as a nation-state to a limited extent.

Against this background, the subproject examines the fundamental connection between dynamics of (in)security and changes in notions of state sovereignty. The aim is to determine this connection more precisely and to analyze the securitization of nation-state sovereignty, its representation as threatened or endangered.

The sub-project consists of two work projects. The first project examines the relationship between security and sovereignty in the United Nations system, particularly with regard to the intensifying efforts since the 1970s to establish an international legal order with the aim of regulating wars as classic conflicts of sovereignty and sources of insecurity.

The second project focuses on the introduction of a common currency as a core political problem of European integration since the 1970s and the conflicts and tensions that resulted from diverging conceptions of sovereignty in European states and societies.

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