Prof. Dr Karolina Milewicz establishes department of International Political Economy

Prof. Dr. Karolina Milewicz studied Political Science and Administrative Sciences - in combination with the subjects Economics and History of Eastern Europe - at the Universities of Bremen, Konstanz and Warwick (UK). She worked as a research assistant at the International Labour Agency in Geneva before completing her doctorate in political science with a specialisation in international politics at the University of Bern (Switzerland). While researching and teaching at the World Trade Institute and the Universities of Bern and Lucerne, she went to Oxford and Essex on a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Between 2012 and 2022, Karolina Milewicz was Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. Her research interests lie in the field of international political economy - here especially in the areas of trade policy, international cooperation and institutions, multilateralism and international law. Her research is interdisciplinary and combines social science empirical methodological approaches with analytical theory.

"I consider my appointment at the University of Bayreuth a great opportunity to bring the research area of International Political Economy to the University of Bayreuth and thus to expand the department of Political Science and International Relations. My own research will focus on the following four topics: Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements, New Forms of Governance, Power in International Relations and International Cooperation and Institutions. It is a central concern of mine to help the University of Bayreuth establish an international presence in the field of global political economy, which is still being developed in Germany," emphasises Prof. Milewicz. "My many years of teaching experience at the University of Oxford, the birthplace of Politics, Philosophy & Economics, provides a good basis for further developing the already successful Bayreuth Philosophy & Economics degree programmes into innovative Politics, Philosophy & Economics degree programmes in cooperation with colleagues in Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth."