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Democracy Requires Order

“Trust is always an advancement"
Political philosopher Rainer Forst on the mechanisms of democracy
By Pia Barth and Anke Sauter

Vacancy in the center-right
The urgent need for conservatives in Europe's party systems
By Thomas Biebricher

The Frankfurt Documents – the beginning of a new order
75 years ago, the Allies issued the mandate to draw up a West German constitution – in the I. G. Farben Building
By Stefan Kadelbach

Order and Disruption

Upended order, disorder, new order
Are we allowed to break the law for higher purposes? A debate on civil disobedience as a form of protest
By Dirk Frank

1848 / 49 / 50 / 51: The many endings of a revolution
Retrospectively, it is often difficult to pinpoint exactly when order forms again after an uprising
By Andreas Fahrmeir

Rebellion and rule
Political order under conditions of armed conflict
By Hanna Pfeifer

Orders on an unstable foundation
If populism threatens order, perhaps the stubbornness of reason can help
By Olaf Kaltenborn

Orders and Transformations

Economics of the “turning point"
The RISS project examines how social change affects established structures in education
By Stefan Terliesner

Educational climbers and non-climbers
Insights into the debate on representation, decolonisation and the future of African Studies
By Katja Irle

Taking a resurrection approach to research
Watching evolution happen – with the help of seed banks
By Andreas Lorenz-Meyer

Tidy House, Tidy Mind

The “common home" as the construction site of disorder
Architectural metaphors in the language of democracies often have little in common with reality
By Carsten Ruhl

The order of things
The “One Of Each" installation by Frankfurt artist Karsten Bott
By Verena Kuni

Sometimes it takes a bit of detective work
Order and disorder in the University Library
By Jonas Krumbein 

Recollections of disorder from the life of a librarian
By Bernhard Wirth

Orders in Nature

The kaleidoscope of life
High tech and artificial intelligence shed light on the cellular nanocosmos
By Andreas Lorenz-Meyer

The blueprint makers
How different proteins are produced from the same template
By Larissa Tetsch

The mother of all scientific systems of order
Mathematics from Ancient Egypt to the coronavirus pandemic
By Annette Imhausen

Unicellular crisis managers
How bacteria cope with environ mental stress
By Andreas Lorenz-Meyer

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