Dieter Mahncke

Dieter Mahncke (* 1941 in Namibia ) is a German political scientist. He is Emeritus Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and Warsaw ( the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Chair for European foreign and security policy ), and author of numerous books and essays on German foreign policy, disarmament, European security, to the German -American relations and to South Africa.

Mahncke was born as the son of German parents in Namibia and grew up there. At first he studied at the University of Cape Town, but then moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated in 1962 with a bachelor's degree in political science. At the Johns Hopkins University in 1964, he earned the Master's degree, he was awarded a doctorate in 1968. From 1969 to 1974 he was a research associate at the Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy. In 1974 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bonn. He was a lecturer at the University of Mainz from 1969 to 1972 and at the University of Bonn ( 1973-74 ), Professor of Political Science at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich (1973 ) and Hamburg ( 1975-1980 ). From 1977 to 1978 he was vice president there.

Dieter Mahncke was head of the speech writer Staff of the Federal President from 1980 to 1985, then deputy director of policy planning in the Ministry of Defence until 1996. Subsequently he taught until his retirement in 2010 as Professor of European Foreign and Security Policy at the College of Europe. By 2008, he headed the Department of Political and Administrative Sciences; 2006-2010 he was there founding director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies. He was a visiting professor in Halle, Antwerp, Sofia, Bangkok and the United States ( Dartmouth, Duke, Middlebury, University of North Carolina).

Writings (selection )

  • Berlin in divided Germany. Volume 34 of the writings of the Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1973.
  • Naval power and foreign policy (edited with Hans -Peter Schwarz ). With a foreword by George liver. Volume 11 of the series of arms control and security " Alfred Metzner Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1974.
  • Confidence-building measures as an instrument of security policy. Origin, Development, Prospects. Volume 59 of the research reports of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Publisher Ernst Knoth, Melle 1987.
  • Conflict in South Africa. The political problems of South Africa in their internal and external political dimensions. Volume 12 of the studies on policy. Schöningh -Verlag, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 1989.
  • Americans in Germany. Foundations and conditions of transatlantic security (eds.). With a foreword by Gerhard Stoltenberg. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1991.
  • Parameters of European Security. Institute for Security Studies, Western European Union. Chaillot Papers 10, Paris, September 1993 ( French: Les Paramètres de la Sécurité Européenne. ).
  • Confidence-building measures and European security system. Stockholm from 1986 to 1992 Helsinki Konrad -Adenauer -Stiftung eV, Bonn 1994.
  • Old Frontiers - New Frontiers. The Challenge of Kosovo and its Implications for the European Union ( Ed. ). With a foreword by Javier Solana Madariaga. Peter Lang, Bern, 2001. ISBN 978-3-906765-67-9
  • Redefining Transatlantic Security Relations: The Challenge of Change (with Wayne Thompson and Wyn Rees ). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
  • European Foreign Policy (edited with Alicia Ambos & Christopher Reynolds ), College of Europe Studies no. 1, Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2004. ISBN 90-5201-247-4
  • International Terrorism. A European Response to a Global Threat? (edited by Jörg Monar ), College of Europe Studies no. 3, Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2006. ISBN 90-5201-046-3
  • Europe's Near Abroad. Promises and Prospects of the EU 's Neighbourhood Policy (edited with Sieglinde Gstöhl ), College of Europe Studies no. 4, Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008. ISBN 978-90-5201-047-2
  • European Union diplomacy. Coherence, Unity and Effectiveness. With a Foreword by Herman Van Rompuy (edited with Sieglinde Gstöhl ), College of Europe Studies no. 15, Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2012. ISBN 978-90-5201-842-3

Papers (selection)

  • What is peace research, in: Europa-Archiv 22/1969, pp. 795-802
  • Europe and the United States, in: Common Ground, July 1976, pp. 53-61.
  • Alternatives to nuclear deterrence as the foundation of European security, in: From Politics and History, Supplement to Parliament, October 25, 1986, p 3-13.
  • Hope without warranty? Discussion with Elmar Schmähling, in: The New Society / Frankfurt booklets 2/1990, pp. 150-156.
  • South Africa's foreign policy: Is there a way out of isolation, in: From Politics and History, Supplement to Parliament, December 1990, p.1 - ninth
  • Inner German relations and international framework: the Berlin crisis 1958-1961/62, Report on the Study Commission of the German Bundestag on the history and consequences of the SED dictatorship, Bonn / Berlin, October 1993 ( 107 pages ), published in: German Bundestag ( Eds.), Materials of the Study Commission, reclamation of history and consequences of the SED Dictatorship in Germany, Volume V, pp. 1766-1821, also p 17-27, 66-71.
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