The research area focuses on political inequality in an interconnected world. At its core are questions of how opportunities, resources, and political rights are distributed between states, social groups, and regions, and how global interdependence reinforces or reduces these inequalities. Rather than understanding international politics only as interactions between governments, the perspective of global governance takes centre stage: states, international organizations, firms, NGOs, and social movements are embedded in dense networks in which power, information, and responsibility are unequally distributed. A particular emphasis lies on the experiences and perspectives of the Global South.