Tanja Börzel

Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel is a distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin and serves as the Director of the Center for European Integration. She also holds a Jean Monnet Chair and is the Director of the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script" (SCRIPTS) at the same university. Her extensive research spans a wide range of subjects including European integration, governance, international and regional diffusion, and environmental policy.

Professor Börzel’s research focus and teaching experience lie in the field of European Integration, Governance, and Diffusion research. She concentrates on questions of institutional change as a result of Europeanization as well as on the diffusion of European ideas and policies within and outside the EU. She studies how and under what conditions the EU promotes institutions and policy programs in and outside of Europe, and what mechanisms of diffusion are applied. She researches global processes of diffusion and resulting transformational changes inside the EU and its member states. In her recent research, she investigates the contestation of liberal norms, such as academic freedom, within democratic societies