About Us

The Department of International Studies, Politics and History in Christ University is a well-established Department that focuses on serious teaching and research. The Department is committed to grooming socially concerned and politically conscious citizens and effective public policy experts by creating an atmosphere for the teaching and research of the complex forces that determine the shape of the 21st century on politics in all its magnitudes; national, international, comparative, theoretical, and empirical. Some of the papers taught in the post-graduate and under-graduate courses focus on comparative governments and federal studies.

Many Ph.D. scholars attached to the Department are pursuing serious research relating to various aspects of federalism in India.

The Department has research collaborations with a number of universities and research organisations in India and abroad.

The Hanns Seidel Foundation, named after the former Bavarian prime minister and CSU chairman, has belonged to this family of foundations since 1967. It is politically aligned with the Christian Social Union and engages in political education with the aim of promoting the democratic and civic education of the German people on Christian foundations.

Its educational programmes extend beyond party boundaries and are open to all interested citizens. Its commitment to democracy, peace, and development abroad also rests on these foundations. In addition, the foundation’s practical actions focus on standards of human dignity and tolerance, freedom and responsibility, solidarity and sustainability, equality of opportunity and intergenerational justice, and subsidiarity as a principle of responsibility and structure.

Mission and objectives must be pursued consistently. Structures must be reviewed, processes corrected, and new formats developed and introduced. Digitalisation is also becoming increasingly important for political education. We are very well positioned here. Online seminars are no substitute for face-to-face seminars, but they complement our range of services decisively. This enables us to generate new reach to young target groups. Participation in the socio-political debate, dialogue with various interest groups, and the development of solution strategies are among our tasks – which we fulfil nationally and internationally, always in the service of democracy, peace, and development.