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Birth:
1 June 1947 in Mosbach-Reichenbuch (Neckar-Odenwald County), West
Germany
School: High
school exam (Abitur) summer of 1967, Scheffel prize for special
achievements in German.
Study: Political Science,
modern history, international law and English language and literature
at Heidelberg University (1967-1969, 1970-71, 1973-1976) and
in London (University College, London School of Economics and
Political Science). After the fifth semester I started to work
on my Ph.D. dissertation and I ended my studies after the 13th semester
with a Dr. Phil. (Ph. D.) degree at Heidelberg University. Research
stay in the U.S. from July 1971 to May 1973, in April 1973 internship
in the disarmament section of the Secretariat General of the United
Nations in New York.
Dr. phil: from University
of Heidelberg on 30 June 1976 with a dissertation on: "Structural
Change and Armament Policy of the United States (1940-1950). On
world leadership role and its domestic preconditions".
Thesis advisors: Prof. Dr. Klaus von Beyme and Prof. Dr. Hartmut
Soell. Examiners: Prof. Dr. Klaus von Beyme, Prof. Dr. Werner Conze,
Prof. Dr. Hermann Mosler.
Habilitation:
On 16 December 1998 the faculty of Political Science of the Free
University of Berlin awarded the venia for Political Science based
on a habilitation dissertation on: Global Structural Change: Systems
transformation and no national structural change - Armament and
Disarmament Policy in American-Soviet Relations 1981-1992” and a
scientific lecture on: “North Africa’s Survival Dilemma: Long-term
Challenges and Development Partnership - Conceptual Considerations
for a Mediterranean Dialogue.”
On 19 January 1999 the new faculty of Political and Social Sciences,
Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science of the Free University
of Berlin awarded the status of a Privatdozent for Political Science.
Professional Activity
Senior
Positions: Guest Professorships and Consultancies
-
2005 - 2009: Research Project on: Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP) Contributions fort he fourth phase of research on environmental, security and peace: volumes III, IV and V of the Hexagon Book Series with Springer-Verlag
- since 2004: Member of the College of Associated Scientists and Advisers (CASA), United Nations University, Environment and Human Security Institute in Bonn (UNU-EHS).
- 2001-2002: Research project on armament policy after the global turn (1990-2020) and on US armament planning until 2020
- July 2002-September 2003: Consultancy for the Federal Ministry on the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety (BMU) on the use of international environment cooperation for crisis prevention (English/German)
- July 2001-June 2002: Study for the Federal Ministry on the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety (BMU) on Climate Change and Conflicts(English/ German)
- Since 1 April 1998:
Consultant for the German Federal Ministry on the Environment,
Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, for the German Environment
Agency, the European Commission, the World Bank, and director
of several research projects at AFES-PRESS.
- From 1 October 1997
- 31 March 1998: Guest (full) professorship for international
politics and regional studies (C-4) at the Institute for Political
Science of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald (Mecklenburg
- Western Pomerania).
- From 1 October 1996
- 30 September 1997: consultancy work for the Institute of Prospective
Technological Studies of the European Commission in Seville, for
IGMA (Spanish Institute on the Arab World) for a project coordinated
by Complutense University in Madrid and for IRELA (EU research
institute for relationship with Latin America), for a member of
the European Parliament, for the Federal Environment Office in
Berlin and publications for scientific journals.
- From 1 October 1995
- 30 September 1996: Guest professorship for international economic
relations (C-3) at the Institute for Political Science of the
University of Leipzig (Saxonia).
- From 1 April 1994 to
30 September 1995: Guest professorship for international relations
(C-3) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt on Main.
- From May 1993 to 31
March 1994: Guest professorship for international relations (C-3)
at the Teacher’s Training College of Erfurt/Mühlhausen (Thuringia).
- From 1 October 1989
to 30 September 1992: Guest professorship for international relations
(C-3, C-4) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt
on Main.
Junior
Positions: Research Associate/Fellow and Lecturer
- From 1 January 1988
to 30 September 1989: Research Associate (fellow) working on a
research project on: “Armament Dynamics and East-West Conflict
in the Nuclear Age” and Lecturer (since WS 1987/88) at the Institute
for Political Science at the University of Heidelberg (with the
chair of Prof. Dr. Klaus von Beyme).
- From 1 June 1983 -
31 December 1987: Research Associate (fellow) working on a research
project on: “Armament Dynamics and East-West Conflict in the Nuclear
Age” and Lecturer (since summer 1991 - summer 1987) at the Institute
for Political Science at the University of Stuttgart (with the
chair of Prof. Dr. Martin Greiffenhagen.
- From 1 April 1981 to
31 May 1983: various short-term consultancy activities (e.g. for
the Max-Planck Society and for a member of the European Parliament)
as a freelance writer, editor.
- From 1 October 1976
to 31 March 1981: Research Associate working on a research project
at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Heidelberg
(with Prof. Dr. Klaus von Beyme).
Teaching of university
courses in international relations (1977-1998)
As a lecturer and
guest professor I focused on: German foreign policy, European
integration, international environment policy, foreign and security
policy, arms control policy; foreign and security policy of the
United States towards the Soviet Union and China; US relations with
Western Europe; international economic relations in the triad: US
- Western Europe - Japan; international organization; peace and
conflict research, decision making process and policy analysis at
the Universities of Darmstadt, Tübingen, Stuttgart, Heidelberg,
Frankfurt, Leipzig and Greifswald as well as at the Teachers Training
College in Erfurt/Mühlhausen. Since the winter semester
1999/2000 at the Free University of Berlin.
Activities in international
scientific bodies
- since 1990 member of
the Advisory Board of the UNESCO Studies on Peace and Conflict
in Paris;
- from July 1992 to 1996
member of the Council of the International Peace Research Association
(IPRA);
- from 1990 to 1993 member
of the Governing Board of the International Security Studies
Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association (ISA);
- from 1986 to December
1991 Chairman of the Weapons Technology and Disarmament or
(1990-1991) of the Defense and Disarmament Study Group of
the International Peace Research Association (IPRA);
- From 1981 to 1994 member
of the Board of Editorial Advisers of the Arms Control Reporter,
Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies, USA 1981-1994);
- since 1987 chairman
of AFES-PRESS, an international nonprofit scientific society
on peace research and European security studies.
- 1996: German founding
member of STRADEMED (Strategy, defense and development), a network
of researchers from the Mediterranean countries or working on
the Mediterranean region.
International Fellowships
- 1978: Honorary Research
Fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard
University;
- 1978: Research Associate
at the International Strategic Institute of Stanford University;
- 1986: NATO Research
Fellow with a research project on: "Evaluation of anti-tactical
ballistic missile defense technologies and concepts for Western
Europe in terms of strategic stability";
- 1987: Fellow of the
U.S. - European Summer School of the IGCC at the University of
Sussex.
Coeditor of a scientific
series of books:
Internationale
Beziehungen - Theorie und Geschichte
(International relations: theory and history) with U. Albrecht,
Berlin - K.-J. Gantzel, Hamburg - B. Kohler-Koch, Mannheim - V.
Rittberger, Tübingen
Sole Editor of the
following series:
Hexagon Series on Human, Environmental Security and Peace: HESP
Rüstungskontrolle
aktuell; Militärpolitik und Rüstungsbegrenzung;
Frieden
- Sicherheit - Umwelt - Klima - Energie;
AFES-PRESS
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