• Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union (CFSP – EU)
• European Security and Defence Policy
• Neutrality and non-alignment
• Austrian Security and Defence Policy
• Global Governance
• International Conflict Management
• Conflict Studies (Prevention – Peacekeeping)
• CSCE/OSCE
• Security concepts
• Terrorism
• Theories of International Relations
• Comprehensive Security
• US Foreign and Security Policy
• Disarmament, Arms Control, Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

• European Union
• USA

Born March 7th, 1951 in Pisweg, Carinthia (Austria)

Academic Education:

• Doctoral Thesis at the Political Science at the University of Salzburg, Nov. 1977
• Graduation with honors: Political Science, Communication Theory
• Habilitation at the University of Innsbruck, March 1990
• Appointment to professorship at the University of Innsbruck, May, 2001

• Professor at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Laxenburg/Vienna (researcher since 1979 to present)
• Lecturer at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna.
• Guest Professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna, 1999-2001
• Lecturing at the National Defense Academy in Vienna
• Editor of the series of books “International Security,” Publisher: Peter Lang
• Regular speeches at the universities of Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Oxford and many other American, European and Asian universities and research institutes

• AMEX Army War College Strategic Studies Grant (Washington), 2008.
• Bruno Kreisky (Legendary former Austrian Chancellor) Award for most outstanding Political Books: „Models of European Security“ (January 1998)
• Jean Monnet Module Visiting Professor at the Institute for Transborder Studies, Kwantlen University College, British Columbia, Canada, 2006.
• 1998 NATO-Fellowship (together with the Austrian Institute for International Affairs)

Consultancy & Media:

• Program KIRAS, 2009Frequent commentator in European and Austrian television, radio and print media, including CNN Europe, the BBC.
• Since 2007 special adviser to the Austrian Minister of Defense.
• Member of the commission internal and external security in the Austrian parliament.
• Advisor on arms control and international security to Austrian Parties and Associations.
• Senior Partner of the consulting firm Global Concepts & Communications, GCC.
• 2005 academic member of the Austrian delegation of the Wassenaar arms control arrangement in the framework of the Austrian presidency.
• Expert Evaluator FP7 Socio-economic sciences and humanities Theme, European Commission, Research Directorate-General, Directorate L: Science, Economy and Society.
• Participation in the COST Assessment Panel (COST is an intergovernmental framework which supports the coordination of nationally funded research activities), Brussels 2007.
• Member of the Jury for the Austrian Security Research.

• Resident Fellow at the Institute for East-West Security Studies in New York  (Sept. 1987 – June 1989)
• Visiting Professor at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (March – July 1992)
• Visiting Professor at the Institute for International Relations, Vancouver, Canada (June – August 1993)
• Guest Professor at the University of Erlangen (Germany) (1994/95)
• International Visitor Program „Special IV Project Honoring 50th Anniversary of NATO,“ Washington, D.C., New York, Boston, April/May 1999
• Fulbright Professorship, Research project “European Security und the Transatlantic Link,” World Policy Institute, New York, 2001
• Visiting Austrian Professor (Austrian Chair) in Stanford, 2001/2002
• International Visitors Program an der University of New Haven (with participation im programs of Yale and Hartford), February/March 2005
• Fulbright Professorship at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University Summer/Fall 2008
• Regular speeches and presentations at the Universities of Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Oxford and many other U.S., European, and Asian Universities and Research Institutes

Project Leader:

• “Comprehensive Security,” commisioned by the Ministry of Science, at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP), 30 Participants, 1000 Pages, 2000-2001
• “Schutz kritischer Infrastruktur (protection of critical infrastructure),” KIRAS, gefördert vom Infrastrukturministerium, 50 Participants, Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP) and Defence Academy, 2007-2008 (tog. With O.Höll)

Professional Memberships:

Austria:

• Commission on the Austrian Chair in Stanford (evaluation)
• Fulbright Student Grant Commission (evaluation)
• Editorial board of the “Austrian Journal of Political Science” and of the Journal “International”
• Member of the Austrian Association of Political Science
• President of the arbitration committee of the students of the WIST-dormitories in Vienna

International:

• Editorial Board of the journal „International Politics“
• Peer Review Board of the Marshall Center in Garmisch
• Advisory Board of the Düsseldorfe Institute for Foreign an Security Policy
• Member of the International Studies Association (ISA)
• Steering Group of the Standing Group on International Relations“ des European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
• Reviewer of various international and national journals such as Foreign Policy Analysis, International Politics, Contemporary Security Policy, Journal of European Integration; Marshall Center Papers; Austrian Journal for Political Science

Selected Bibliography

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