Research activities are paramount in the Department. The Department’s faculty have been consistently producing research in history, law, economics, sociology, statistics, linguistics and translation studies. Research in the Department currently focuses around a number of interdisciplinary research projects, each of which involves researchers and professors from different scientific backgrounds, working together with an interdisciplinary approach. Research feeds into quality teaching, while, in its turn, teaching stimulates research. Thus, the research teams also promote interdisciplinary seminars in the following areas:
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Biopolitics
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Cultural Diplomacy, Public Diplomacy, and Propaganda
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Gender Studies
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Information, Communication and Democracy
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Political Models and World Governance in the Modern and Contemporary Age
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Observatory on Contemporary Democracy
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Public Policies
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Privacy and New Media in International Law
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Social and Political Theory
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Sustainable Development
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The translation of cultures, political thought and communication