Klaus Segbers

Klaus Segbers (* 1954 in Dortmund ) is a German political scientist and professor. He is Chair of Eastern Studies and Professor of International Relations at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin. His work and research interests include foreign policy and international relations, international political economy, globalization, terrorism, transformations in comparison, Eastern Europe and global city regions. In addition, he works on the development of innovative teaching and learning methods, such as in the area of ​​blended learning. Since 2007, he founded Segbers directs the Center for Global Politics, next he is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford, among others, New York, Moscow and Shanghai.

Career

Segbers studied from 1974 to 1979 History, Slavic Languages ​​, Political Science and Philosophy at the Ruhr- University Bochum and the University of Konstanz. He graduated with a Master of Arts and the state exam. From 1980 to 1984 he completed his doctorate at the University of Bremen on the USSR during the Second World War, Dr. phil. As part of his PhD he stayed in the U.S. and the USSR. After several years working as a research assistant, among others, in Bremen and Frankfurt / Main Segbers habilitation in 1992 on the system change in the Soviet Union. In 1995 he was called as Professor of International Relations to Constance, 1996, at the Free University of Berlin, where he has since been a professor of political science ( Otto -Suhr- Institute ) and Eastern Europe policy ( for East European Studies ). In addition, Segbers operated regularly as a guest lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, New York, Moscow and Shanghai. In addition to his teaching duties directs the Segbers is based at the Free University of Berlin Center for Global Politics. The Center brings together four of Segbers initiated study programs, master's programs in East European Studies Online and International Relations Online, also the German course German Studies Russia at MGIMO (Moscow ) and the Global Politics Seasonal Schools in different regions (including China, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Greece, Turkey, Vietnam, Cambodia).

Research priorities

Segbers conducts research on a wide range within the International Relations and Regional Research. Among other things, he led research projects for political and social transformation of Eastern Europe.

Another focus in Segbers research are globalization processes. According Segbers provide the diverse impacts of globalization, the politics of democratic nation-states, structural challenges. Global goods, capital, information and migration flows are increasingly difficult einzuhegen and control by national government action. Segbers speaks in this context of the "end of politics". As a solution to these problems, Segbers plan to move a political powers from the nation state on smaller levels, such as cities, or a supranational institutions such as the EU. Segbers research on " Global City Regions" (2002-2004) discuss the role of cities as political entities that operate as hubs for different processes of globalization.

Currently Klaus Segbers explores innovative forms of learning for higher education. Under the leadership of the Center for Global Politics he is driving the development of blended learning courses. The online-based Masters courses International Relations Online and East European Studies Online combine an international study concept with innovative, IT-based forms of knowledge transfer.

Selected Publications

• From the end of the policy. Six reasons why debates and advice are always difficult. In: International Politics ( February 2013 ), pp. 54-63.

• Debating Flinders. In: Democratic Politics, Vol 18.1, 2012, pp. 28-32.

• Cities and Global Governance. With Mark Amen, Noah J. Toly, Patricia L. McCarney (ed.). New Sites for International Relations. Surrey: Ashagate, 2011.

• The end of politics. A contribution to the debate, Spiegel Online on November 18, 2011

• Everything flows - Towards a new understanding of politics. In: Josef Braml, Thomas Risse, Eberhard sand Schneider ( ed.), commitment to peace. Security and development in areas of limited statehood. Yearbook of International Politics, Volume 28 (2011), Munich: Oldenbourg, pp. 30-34.

• Global Politics and the Collapse of the Western Political Divide: The Emerging New Global Landscape. In: 20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Singapore: KAS, 2009, pp. 61 - 73

• Giant cities - new relationship games, in: founded. The Science Magazine of the Free University of Berlin. 2009/ 01, pp. 56-62.

• Understanding Russia. Challenges for the next U.S. president - Hopes and Realities. In: International Affairs Forum, 4th special publication, 2009, pp. 58-64.

• The Making of Global City Regions. Johannesburg, Mumbai / Bombay, São Paulo, and Shanghai, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

• Public problem, Private Solutions? Globalizing Cities in the South. With Simon Raiser, Krister Volkmann ( eds.). Aldershot, Burlington / VT: Ashgate, 2005.

• Resistance to Globalization. Political Struggle and Cultural Resilience in the Middle East, Russia, and Latin America. With Harald Barrios, Martin Beck, Andreas Boeckh (ed.). Hamburg, London: LIT, 2003.

• Gulliver's bonds. External policies of the Federal Republic of Germany in the nineties: The inner dimension. In: Werner Sweet (ed.), Germany in the nineties. Politics and society between reunification and globalization. Opladen: Leske and Budrich, 2002, 349 - 361

• Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks. 3 volumes, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2001.

• The Globalization of Eastern Europe. Teaching International Relations Without Borders. With Kerstin Imbusch (ed.): Münster, Hamburg, London: LIT, 2000.

• Russia embed. The meaning and purpose of a simulation. In: Sheets for German and International Politics, 1999, 7, pp. 829-836.

• Post-Soviet puzzle. Mapping the Political Economy of the Former Soviet Union. With Stephan De Spiegeleire (ed.): 4 volumes, Baden -Baden: Nomos, 1995.

• Russia's future: Divisions and regions. Baden -Baden: Nomos, 1994.

• The Soviet system change. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1989.