Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce a Predoctoral Research Fellow / PhD position (75%, 3 years) at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, starting 1 April 2026. The position is part of the DFG-funded project “VARICRIS: Crisis variations and their impact on international organizations’ governance capacities”, jointly led by Prof. Christian Rauh (WZB) and Prof. Christian Kreuder-Sonnen (FSU Jena). The successful candidate will develop their own PhD project and contribute to the project’s quantitative strand, including text analyses of an original large newswire corpus to study crisis perceptions across the globe. The position offers excellent supervision, access to unique data, and integration into international academic networks. * More on the project: http://bit.ly/varicris * Full job call and application details: https://www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/predoctoral-research-fellow-phd-candidate-fmx-id-364-413-364 <https://www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/predoctoral-research-fellow-phd-candidate-fmx-id-364-413-364> * Application deadline: 30 November 2025 We would be very grateful if you could share this exciting opportunity with suitable candidates or relevant networks and colleagues. The project website also contains a call for a related PostDoc position. Kind regards, Christian Rauh -- *Prof. Dr. Christian Rauh <https://chrauh.github.io/>* /Senior researcher/ WZB Berlin Social Science Center Research Unit Global Governance /S/W2 Professor for the Politics of Multilevel Governance/ University of Potsdam Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences /Recent publications include:/ * Christian Rauh(2025) International recognition of European Union “actorness”: Language-based evidence from United Nations general debate speeches 1970–2020 <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03050629.2025.2530513> /International Interactions/: Online First. * Christian Rauh & Michal Parizek(2024) Converging on Europe? The European Union in mediatised debates during the COVID-19 and Ukraine shocks. <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2024.2344849> /Journal of European Public Policy 31(10)/: 3036-3065. * Christian Rauh(2023) Clear messages to the European public? The language of European Commission press releases 1985–2020. <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07036337.2022.2134860> /Journal of European Integration/ 45(4): 683-701. * Christian Rauh(2021) One agenda-setter or many? The varying success of policy initiatives by individual Directorates-General of the European Commission 1994–2016. <https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1465116520961467> /European Union Politics/ 22(1): 3-24.