Ludger Kühnhardt

Ludger Kühnhardt ( born June 4, 1958 in Münster, Westphalia ) is a German political scientist. Since 1997 he is Director of the Center for European Integration Studies ( ZEI) at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Bonn and at the same time Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology.

Journalistic training and activity

Kühnhardt graduated following his Abitur in Ibbenbüren 1977-1978 an editor training at the German School of Journalism in Munich. He then worked as a freelance journalist, especially for the later Rheinische Merkur, the German wave and the WDR. 1979, the German Catholic journalist prize he was awarded. Kühnhardt led extensive journalistic reportage by traveling through Asia and Africa, and directed documentaries in South Korea, Bangladesh and India. His community service he rendered in the care of boat people from Vietnam.

Academic Career

His academic study of history, philosophy and political science, he finished 1983 with a doctorate in Karl Dietrich Bracher at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. His dissertation was titled The refugee issue as world order problem. Research studies had led him in the preparation of the doctorate at the seat of the League of Nations and the UNHCR in Geneva. Postgraduate studies led Kühnhardt by 1983-1984 at Sophia University in Tokyo and at the International Christian University of Tokyo, and 1984-1985 at Harvard University. He then worked as a research assistant of the last Bracher before his retirement in Bonn. In January 1987 he was habilitated by the Faculty of Arts of the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. His habilitation thesis under the title The universality of human rights. Study on the history of ideas determination of a key policy concept is regarded as a standard work.

Career

From March 1987 to June 1989 Kühnhardt worked as a speechwriter for President Richard von Weizsacker of the Federal President. Research studies led him afterwards at the St Antony 's College, Oxford. 1990/1991, he held a professor at the University of Bonn and from 1990 to 1992, he practiced as a visiting professor in the Department of History at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, which supported the development of the local political science after the German reunification. 1991 Kühnhardt was appointed by the Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Science, the prestigious Institute of Political Science ( as successor to Arnold and Wilhelm Hennis Bergstraesser ) at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg. 1994/1995 he served as dean of his faculty there in the academic administration.

1997 Ludger Kühnhardt as director, which was founded in the wake of the scientific extension of Bonn Center for European Integration Studies ( ZEI) at the Rheinische Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität Bonn was appointed. This reputation was associated with a concurrent appointment as Professor of Political Science at the Bonn Conference for Political Science (now the Department of Political Science and Sociology ). Together with his colleagues of Hagen (economist ) and Koenig ( legal scholar ) built Kühnhardt ZEI on as far internationally networked research, consulting and training facility.

Visiting professorships and longer research stays led Kühnhardt at St Antony's College, Oxford University, the University of Cape Town, the College d'Europe, at the Institute for Human Sciences, at Stanford University, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington DC) and the Seoul National University and at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore ( Alta Scuola di Economia e Relazioni Internazionali ) in Milan, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies ( MEDAC ) in Malta.

Awards

2004, the European Science Prize of the European Cultural Foundation awarded him.

Family

Ludger Kühnhardt is married to the Hungarian Enikö Noemi Kühnhardt. They have two children. Kühnhardt is Roman Catholic.

Publications

• Christian social teaching in practice. Munich 1977.
• The German political parties and the development of policy. Hannover 1980.
• Children of prosperity. In search of the lost sense. Munich 1981.
• The land of 500,000 villages. Stories from rural India. Trichur 1982.
• The refugee issue as world order problem. Mass forced hikes in history and politics. Vienna 1984.
• The universality of human rights. Study on the history of ideas determination of a key political concept. Munich 1987. Lizenzausgabe Federal Centre for Political Education, Bonn 1987. 2nd edition 1991.
• Hans -Gert Poettering: Europe united states. Approximations of values ​​and goals. Zurich 1991.
• Hans -Peter Schwarz (ed.): Twelve neighbors - a Europe. Germany and the European future from the perspective of the diplomats of surrounding countries. Bonn, Berlin 1991.
• Way to democracy. Contributions from political science. Jena, Erlangen 1992.
• Levels of sovereignty. Understanding of the state and self-determination in the Third World. Bonn, Berlin 1992.
• European Union and federal idea. Munich 1993.
• With Ulrich Zwiener et al. (Ed. ): European challenges today. Tolerance and trust to new common ground. Jena, Erlangen 1994.
• Hans -Gert Poettering: World Partners European Union. Zurich 1994.
• With Gerd Leutenecker, Martin Rupp and Frank Walt Mann ( ed.): The dual German dictatorship experience. Third Reich and the GDR - a historical- comparative political science. Frankfurt am Main in 1994. 2nd edition 1996.
• Revolution times. The break 1989 in historical context. Munich 1994. ( Turkish edition 2003. )
• Every Man for Himself and all against all. State and future of common sense. Freiburg 1994.
• Located in upheaval. Historical and political approaches to time issues. Bonn 1995.
• From the eternal search for peace. Immanuel Kant's vision and reality of Europe. Bonn 1996.
• Beyond divisions and after. Essays on democracy, the Germans and Europe. Frankfurt am Main, New York 1996.
• Hans -Gert Poettering: Continent of Europe. Zurich 1998. ( Czech edition 2001. )
• Future thinkers. Proven ideas of political order for the third millennium. Baden -Baden in 1999.
• Alexander Tschubarjan (ed.): Russia and Germany on the way to anti-totalitarian consensus. Baden -Baden in 1999. ( Russian edition 2000. )
• With Dario Valcarcel (ed.): Spain and Germany as EU partners. Baden -Baden in 1999. ( Spanish edition 2000. )
• With Hüseyin Bagci and Jackson Janes (eds.): Parameters of Partnership. The US- Turkey -Europe. Baden -Baden in 1999.
• Michael Rutz (eds.): The Rediscovery of Europe. A walk through the past and present. Stuttgart 1999.
• The European Union - Issues of enlargement. Berlin 2001. 3rd edition 2003. Published by the Foreign Office and the European Commission Representation in Germany.
• With Ulrich Zwiener et al. (Ed.): Human Values ​​. Reconciliation. Jena, Erlangen 2002.
• Atlantic Bridge. Fifty years of German -American partnership. Berlin 2002.
• Constituting Europe. Identity, institution-building and the search for a global role. Baden -Baden 2003.
• With Mamoru Takayama (eds.): Human rights, culture and violence. Approaches to intercultural ethics. Baden -Baden, 2005.
• The European Constitution. Analysis and evaluation of their structure decisions. Baden -Baden, 2006.
• European Union - The second founding. The changing rational of European integration. Baden -Baden 2008 ( 2nd expanded edition 2010).
• Crises in European integration. Challenges and responses from 1945 to 2005. Oxford, New York, 2009.
• Region - Building, vol I: The Global Proliferation of Regional Integration. Oxford, New York, 2010.
• Region - Building, Vol II: Regional Integration in the World: Documents. Oxford, New York, 2010.
• Europe: Internal Constitution and turn to the world. Positioning of the European Union. Baden -Baden, 2010.