Volker Stanzel

Volker Stanzel ( born September 22, 1948 in Kronberg im Taunus ) is a German retired diplomat and former political director of the Foreign Ministry and former ambassador in Beijing and Tokyo, who now teaches in California to political science topics. He is married and has two children.

Career

The study of Japanese Studies, Chinese Studies and Political Science at the Universities of Frankfurt and Kyoto he graduated in 1980 with the PhD. at the University of Cologne from.

After joining the Foreign Service in 1979 followed uses at the Embassy in Italy ( Economics Department), Federal Foreign Office in Bonn ( Economic Department ), at the Embassy in Japan (Press and Political Affairs Division ), as well as at the Embassy in Hungary ( CSCE cultural Forum ).

From 1985 to 1987, Stanzel Chargé ( Chargé d' Affaires ) at the Embassy in Yemen (Aden). Then again, he was first assistant in the economics department of the Foreign Office before Assistant European Correspondent in the Department of European Political Cooperation at the Foreign Office in Bonn in 1988.

From 1990 to 1993 Stanzel was Head of Press and Public Relations at the Embassy in the People's Republic of China. Subsequently he was head of the Situation Centre in the Foreign Office before 1995 Speaker for foreign policy of the SPD parliamentary group was.

From 1998/99 Stanzel took advantage of a research contract ( Fellow ) at the German Marshall Fund in Washington.

Then he returned as head of the for the Peaceful use of nuclear energy and non-proliferation in the Foreign Office, before he served as Deputy Director and Director for Asian Affairs at the Foreign Office from 2001 to 2002. As such, he was Co-opted Board Member of the German Association for Asian Studies.

Stanzel was until September 2004. Assistant secretary head of the Political Section 3 ( relations with the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia as well as issues of democratization assistance and electoral observation ) the Federal Foreign Office From September 2004 to 2007 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in the People's Republic of China.

In August 2007 he took the post of Director of the Political Department took over and became the Political Director of the Foreign Office was.

From October 2009 to October 2013 was Volker Stanzel Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tokyo.

Since January 2014 Stanzel teaches at Claremont McKenna College in California. He is also a Senior Policy Fellow for China in International Affairs of the Mercator Institute for China Studies, Berlin, as well as on the advisory board of the China program of the Bosch Foundation.

Stanzel is a member of the SPD and agencies of the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

Publications

Papers

  • "Traditional Ultra - Nationalist Conceptions in Mishima Yukio's Manifesto, " in Tradition and Modern Japan, edited by PG O'Neill ( Kent: Paul Norbury Publications Limited, 1981).
  • The utopia of the " man with the lustful heart." About a prohibited " national treasure " of Japanese literature. 1985
  • " Marxism in Arabia., The South Yemen after twenty years of independence, " Foreign Policy 39, n.3 (1988).
  • " Vicissitudes of early Japanese humor, " in GSD to celebrate by Klaus Antoni and Geza Dombrady, (Hamburg: Oriens Extremus, 1989).
  • " Mishina and his shield Community, " in Men band Male Bonding: On the role of the man in cultural comparison (Cologne: Exhibition of Josef Hambrich Art Hall, 1990).
  • " Murayama: new Premier and old problems, " Japan Magazine 1, 1996.
  • The US-Japan security declaration: "Alliance for the 21st Century ," Japan Magazine 4 (1996).
  • "A World of Warring States: China 's Perception and Possibilities of Its International Role, " Paper presented at 'China 's International Role: Key Issues, Common Interests, Different Approaches ' ​​International Conference in Brühl, 1997.
  • "Change without values ​​, values ​​without change? Noise of modernity in China, " 1998.
  • Beyond the European dream: Japan eyes the West. 1998
  • " Ambassador, on to Des Moines, " the world January 1, 1999.
  • "The potential use: The West needs a policy on Asia, " Time, 12 May 1999.
  • " Dealing with the Backwoods: New Challenges for the Transatlantic Relationship, " The Washington Quarterly 22, no 2 ( June 1999): 17-23.
  • "Remembering and Forgetting: But Will the Past Forget About Us, " in Memory and History in East and South East Asia from the Center for Strategic and International Studies 23, no 3 (2001): 3-15.
  • "Asia's Role in the World: A View from Europe, " In Europe and Asia: Mutual Perceptions and Expectations on the Way to a New Partnership in the Twenty - First Century, edited by Xuewu Gu, (Baden Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002).
  • " Rise to world power, " in The Fischer World Almanac edited by Volker Ullrich and Eva Berie, (Frankfurt am Main, 2005).
  • " Mudai " ( in Japanese), Daiwa AD 41, Kyoto ( 2005).
  • "Germany's defense in the Hindu Kush. Experiment Afghanistan. " In: Heading into the future. edited by Günther Gomm - Ernsting, (Berlin: Berliner Science Publishers, 2005), 27-38.
  • "Considerations for German China policy. " In: China Report. No. 42 / March 2005
  • "Reflections on Asia in the 21st Century. " ASIA 100 (2006): 79-84.
  • "The EU and China in the Global System, " in China -Europe Relations: Perceptions, Policies and Prospects, edited by David Shambaugh, Eberhard Schneider sand and Zhou Hong, 2008.
  • " When the Germans touched the cloak of history: the 9th of November in 1989 and what it means for Europe, " 9 November, 2009.
  • " German foreign policy after the parliamentary elections, " 11 November 2009.
  • "60 years of the Federal Republic of Germany, 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, " 4 December 2009.
  • " Germany's role in the new European Union, " lecture at the Nanzan University, 11 December 2009.
  • "An Exit Strategy for Afghanistan, " in Petersberg Papers on Afghanistan and the region, from the Liechtenstein Colloquium Report IV, ( 2009).
  • "Design Partners Japan, " in Insight 1, from the German -Asia Pacific Business Association, (2010).
  • " Two lost or gained two decades: Germany and Japan twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, " 25 January 2010.
  • " The year 2010 and the Treaty of Lisbon: Is there a new European Union, " 26 January 2010.
  • "The quandaries of Neighbors: China and Japan in 2010, " Save Review 4 November 2010.
  • "The Future of the International Community and the Role of Medium - Sized Powers in 2010" (Japanese), Asia Jiho, July 26, 2010.
  • "The Future of the International Community and the Role of Medium - Sized Powers, " Tokyo, 26 July 2010.
  • " Nippon, Old or New? Political Visions of Bakumatsu Japan ," 2 December 2010.
  • " Germany and Japan on the world stage", 18 April 2011.
  • " Why Should China be a Responsible Stakeholder? 4 August 2011.
  • " Japan after Fukushima " 31 and August 2011.
  • "150 Years of German - Japanese Relations: An inventory after the Jubilee year, " 19 April 2012.
  • " German Path to the Energy of the Future - Reliable, Affordable, and Environmentally Sound, " in 2012.
  • " Germany and Japan: Shaping the Future, " 2013.
  • "The stage is ready for a conflict: China, Japan, and the United States, " Mercator Institute for China Studies, 9 December 2013.
  • Book Review: ' Christian W. Spang ' Karl Haushofer and Japan, the reception of his geopolitical theories in the German and Japanese politics, " OAG notes, February 2014.
  • Japan, head of the Earth. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1982, ISBN 3-88479-097-8.
  • In the wind of change. East Asia's new revolution. Bouvier, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-416-02676-4.
  • China's foreign policy. Ways a reluctant world power. Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-486-25887-7 (published under the pseudonym of Gustav Kempf )
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