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Academic Degrees

“Habilitation”
Darmstadt University of Technology, November 2000

Dr. phil.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/M., February 1996

M.A.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/M., November 1992. 

Academic Education

1993 - 1996
Doctoral Studies at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/M. and University of Kent at Canterbury (1993-1994).

1987 - 1992
Undergraduate and graduate studies in Political Science, Law, and Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/M., and George Washington University, Washington, DC (1989-90).

Professional Positions

Academic Year 2014/2015
Hannah-Arendt-Visiting Chair, University of Toronto 

Since March 2001
Full Professor (C4, since 2007 W3) of Political Science at Bielefeld University.

November 2000 - February 2001
Acting Professor of Political Science at Bielefeld University.

October 1999 – October 2000
Assistant Professor, Institute for Political Science, Darmstadt University of Technology.

January - September 1999
Habilitation Fellow of the German Research Council (DFG).

April 1996 - April 1998
Research Associate at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitäty Frankfurt/M. and Adjunct Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University (October 1996-June 1997).

April 1988-March 1996
Various teaching and research assistantships and free-lance research contractsat Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, and Institute for International Research Frankfurt.

• World society theory
• The Sociology of international relations
• Global Conflict Studies
• The Geopolitics of the Polar Regions
• Youth studies