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Alexander Siedschlag, Dr. phil.,
M.A.
I have accepted an appointment as visiting professor of security research at Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna. More information and contact details to follow soon. E-mail remains unchanged.
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Recent contributions
in English are listed here
Current professional positions and assignments
Director, Center for European Security Studies at WWEDU World Wide Education Business and Governance School, Wels/Austria
Director, Research and Development, WWEDU World Wide Education Business and Governance School, Wels/Austria
Member of Working Group 10 (Governance and Coordination) of the European Security Research and Innovation Form (ESRIF)
Member of the General Assembly of the European Union 7th Framework Programme Securrity Research Project CPSI - Changing Perceptions of Security and Interventions. The WWEDU Center for European Security Studies is a consortial partner in this multinational research project.
Member of the jury of the Austrian National Security Research Programme KIRAS.
Founder and chairman of the organizing
committee of the
European Security Conference Initiative (ESCI)
Former professional positions and assignments
2006 - 2008 Chief executive officer of the German United Nations Association (DGVN), Bavarian branch (www.dgvn-bayern.de)
2004 - 2007 Full Professor (Endowed Chair) of European Security Policy at the University of Innsbruck/Austria (www.european-security.info)
Fields of expertise and teaching
Security Research
Comprehensive Disaster and Relief Management
International Relations
NATO
ESDP, civil-military co-ordination
in crisis management
German foreign and security policy
Austrian foreign and security policy
Theories and qualitative methods of International Relations
Comparative Politics
Neoinstitutionalism
Conflict transformation
Digital democracy
Academic qualification
Habilitation (venia legendi) in Political Science 2000 from Humboldt University Berlin
M.A. 1994, Dr. phil. (Ph.D) 1996 from the University of Munich
Courses in Political Science, Contemporary History, Sociology and Psychology
at the University of Munich
Previous positions
2002-2004 Visiting professor, Munich School of Political Science (Hochschule für Politik München)
2000-2004 Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin
1997-2000 Lecturer in International Politics and Euro-Atlantic Security, Humboldt University Berlin
1998-1999 Habilitation research fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council)
1996-1998 Postdoc, postgraduate program "The new Europe. National and international dimensions of institutional change", Free University Berlin
1995-1996 NATO Research Fellow and resident fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Ebenhausen
1994-1995 Research associate, Center for International Affairs, University
of Munich
International experience activities
Panel convenor, "Political Science Aspects of Security Research", 21st International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress 2009, Santiago de Chile.
Papergiver, "Global discontent with nuclear non-proliferation policy - globalization or fragmentation as way out?", 21st International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress 2009, Santiago de Chile.
Austrian Expert Member in the following Working Groups of the
European Security Research Innovation Forum (ESRIF) that provides
consultancy for the European Commission:
Working Group 10: Governance and coordination (GC)
Working Group 11: Socio-economic and ethical issues, incl. privacy (HSDS)
Member of the evaluating committee of the European Commission
(DG Enterprise and Industry) for the Preparatory Action for Security Research
(PASR-2006)
Non-governmental expert in the CAPTECH network of the European Defence Agency (EDA), Environment, Systems & Modelling (ESM), ESM.04 – Human Factors
Participant in the EU project NESCA (Network of European Studies Centres in Asia)
Papergiver and panelist, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in San Francisco (August/September 2001)
Member, "Young Leaders" group in the discussion project of the Evangelische Akademie Loccum and the Vesper Society (Hayward, CA): "The Renewal of the Transatlantic Partnership - The Responsibility of the European Union and the U.S.A. for Stability, Security and Peace" (March-September 2001)
Member, expert group on policy recommendations for the use of the concept of national interest in political communication and public relations work, reporting to the German Ministry of Defence (January-July 2001)
Visitor, United Nations Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH), Sarajevo (October 2000)
Papergiver and panelist, XVIIIth World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Quebec City, Canada (August 2000)
Visiting postdoctoral fellow, German-American Center for Visiting Scholars, Washington, D.C. (August-October 1998)
Participant, Halki International Seminar: "The European Union and Its Eastern Neighbors: Security, Cooperation and Human Rights", Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (September 1996)
Visitor, NATO Headquarters, SHAPE and AFCENT (July 1996 and June 1997)
Visitor, U.N. Headquarters, New York October-November 1994, November
1995 and October 1997)
Academic awards
2001 Special travel grant for participating in the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in San Francisco, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council)
2000 Grant covering the printing costs of my Habilitation book, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2000 Special travel grant for participating in the 18th World Congress of the International Political Science Association in Quebec City, Canada, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
1998/99 Habilitation (postdoctoral research) scholarship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
1998 Travel grant to Washington, D.C., Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
1996-1998 Postdoctoral scholarship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council)
1995/96 Postgraduate scholarship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
1995 NATO research fellowship
Memberships
International Political Science Association (IPSA)
American Political Science Association (APSA)
Foreign Affairs Association, Munich
German Atlantic Council
German Association for Political Science (DVPW)
Research Committee "International Politics" of the DVPW
Review Panel, "Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen" (ZIB)
Selected publications
Recent contributions
in English
Monographs
Die aktive Beteiligung Deutschlands an militärischen Aktionen
zur Verwirklichung
Kollektiver Sicherheit. (Germany's Active Support of Military
Operations in Order to Realize Collective Security) Frankfurt/M.: Peter
Lang 1995. (= M.A. thesis, University of Munich.)
Neorealismus, Neoliberalismus und postinternationale Politik. Beispiel internationale Sicherheit - theoretische Bestandsaufnahme und Evaluation. (Neorealism, Neoliberalism and Post-international Politics. International Security as an Example - Theoretical Account and Evaluation) Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1997. (= Ph.D thesis, University of Munich.)
The System-Change in Europe: Theoretical and Political Consequences for the Future Role of NATO. A Comprehensive Evaluation of Theoretical Propositions, Empirical Evidence and Possible Political Guidelines. Report for NATO Academic Affairs Division, published on NATO's Website: http://www.nato.int/acad/fellow/95-97/siedschl.pdf.
NATO Meets the Post-strategic Condition. Political Vicissitudes and
Theoretical
Puzzles in the Alliance's First Wave of Adaptation, 1990-1997. New
Brunswick, NJ: Transaction and Münster: Lit, 1998.
Politische Institutionalisierung und Konflikttransformation. Leitideen,
Theoriemodelle und europäische Praxisfälle. (Political Institutionalization
and Conflict Management in the New Europe Ideas, Theories, and Empirical
Cases) Opladen: Leske + Budrich 2000. (= Habilitation book, Humboldt University
Berlin.)
Edited volume
Realistische Perspektiven internationaler Politik (Realist/realistic
Perspectives of International Politics). Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2001.
Book and journal articles, internet publications
"Deutsche Außenpolitik im Dilemma der doppelten Normalität" (German foreign policy and the dilemma of double normality), Jahrbuch für Politik 5 (1995), pp. 297-318.
"Konfliktmanagement in der post-bipolaren Welt. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen, Konzepte, Konfliktmodelle" (Managing conflict in the post-bipolar world. Chances and limits, concepts and conflict models), in Jörg Calließ and Christine M. Merkel (eds.), Peaceful Settlement of Conflicts as a Joint Task for International Organizations, Governments and Civil Society. Vol. 2. Rehburg-Loccum: Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 1995, pp. 448-485.
"Aktuelle Problemlagen deutscher Außenpolitik. Literaturüberblick, zentrale Dilemmata, politische Agenda" (Current problems of German foreign policy. Overview of the literature, central dilemmas, political agenda), in Jörg Calließ and Bernhard Moltmann (eds.), Die Zukunft der Außenpolitik, Rehburg-Loccum: Evangelische Akademie Loccum 1995, pp. 37-85.
"Peaceful Settlement of Disputes and Conflict Management in Areas of ethno-national Tension", in Jörg Calließ and Christine M. Merkel (eds.), Peaceful Settlement of Conflicts as a Joint Task for International Organizations, Governments and Civil Society. Vol. 1. Rehburg-Loccum: Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 1995, pp. 35-56.
"Parlamente und Streitkräfte - Deutschland, USA, Großbritannien und Frankreich im Vergleich" (Parliaments and forces - Germany, the U.S., Great Britain and France compared), Gegenwartskunde 45 (1996), pp. 167-180.
"Internationales Sicherheitsengagement oder nationale Interessenpolitik? - USA, Großbritannien und Frankreich" (International engagement for security or politics of the national interest? - The U.S., Great Britain and France), WeltTrends, No. 13, 1996, pp. 132-145.
"'Consensus' und 'decline'. Überlegungen zur Substanz der 'britischen Krise' zwischen 1945 und 1979" ("Consensus" and "decline". On the substance of the "British crisis", 1945-1979), Zeitschrift für Politik 44 (1997), pp. 46-71.
"Der Realismus und die Wirklichkeit nach dem Kalten Krieg" (Realist theory and reality after the Cold War), Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 7 (1997), S. 1361-1376.
"Neue Dimensionen beim Einsatz von Streitkräften. Verfassungsrechtliche und politische Aspekte in Deutschland, den USA, Großbritannien und Frankreich" (New dimensions in the use of force. Legal and political aspects in Germany, the U.S., Great Britain and France), in Jörg Calließ (ed.), Der Aufbau einer Europäischen Sicherheitsarchitektur. Rehburg-Loccum: Evangelische Akademie Loccum 1998, S. 378-424.
"Der institutionelle Anpassungsprozeß der NATO und die Zukunft post-strategischer Sicherheitspolitik in Europa" (NATO's institutional adaptation and the future of post-strategic Europen security), in Stefanie Pfahl et al. (eds.), Institutionelle Herausforderungen im neuen Europa. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1998, pp. 157-189.
"Konflikte und Konflikttheorien nach dem Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts. Neue Ansätze und neue Herausforderungen" (Conflicts and theories of conflict beyond bipolarity. New approaches and challenges), in Carlo Masala/Ralf Roloff (eds.), Herausforderungen der Realpolitik. Beiträge zur Theoriedebatte in der Internationalen Politik. Köln: SH-Verlag 1998, pp. 195-225.
"Zwischen gezähmter Macht und gefordertem Engagement. Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik des vereinten Deutschland in ihrer ersten Dekade" (Between tamed power and demanded engagement. United Germany's foreign and security policy in its first decade), Gegenwartskunde 49 (2000), pp. 143-156.
"Die politische Institutionalisierung einer erweiterten Europäischen Union" (The political institutionalization of an enlarged European Union), Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 30 (2001), pp. 61-73.
"Internationale Politik als skeptische Gegenwartswissenschaft und die Münchner Schule des Neorealismus" (International politics as a contemporary science and the Munich School of Neorealism), in Alexander Siedschlag (ed.), Realistische Perspektiven internationaler Politik. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2001, pp. 13-66.
"Globalisierung, Friedenswahrung und Konfliktprävention - Kein Abschied von der Staatenwelt" (Globalization, peacekeeping and conflict prevention - no farewell to Westphalia), in Alexander Siedschlag (ed.), Realistische Perspektiven internationaler Politik. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2001, pp. 201-220.
Political
Institutionalization and Conflict Management in the New Europe. Paper presented
at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
(APSA), San Francisco, 30 August - 2 September 2001.
Germany
- Threatened by the evil in the world. From a reluctant power to an active peace
donator?
Paper for the GARNET-Project
(6th EU FP)
"Vertices of Conflict and Cooperation: Threat Perception into the 21st Century.
Digital Democracy and its Application to the
International Arena - From "Deliberation" to "Decision".
Paper presented at the conference hosted by the Center for Security Studies der ETH Zürich
and the International Studies Association (ISA) "Information Revolution and the
Changing Face of International Relations and Security", 23-25 May 2005, Luzern.
International Non-Proliferation Policy and the United Nations Security System after 9/11 and Iraq. University Innsbruck, Endowed Centre for European Security Policy, Analytical Standpoint, No. 1 (November 2005).
(with Andrea Jerković) Primary Interpretation of Survey Findings to Identify National Citizen Security Cultures. Analytical Standpoint, no. 12 (November 2008).
Academic power point presentations/e-learning input
Civil-Military Interaction in EU Crisis Management. Speech to the European Security and Defence Assembly. Assembly of the Western European Union. Assembly Colloquy on: "Civil-Military Cooperation in Crisis Management", Berlin, Reichstag, 2009.
Civil-military interaction in EU crisis management. Conceptual underpinnings and policy options towards "CMNEW" (civil-military networking). Presentation at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
Course at the NATO School, Oberammergau
The
multidimensional development of ESDP as an instrument for comprehensive conflict
management.
Presentation at the EU-NESCA Workshop 1: EU’s Foreign
Governance: CFSP and ESDP and its Impact on Asia. Institute of European Studies
of Macao
NATO Today and Its Global Engagement.
Presentation at
the European Summer Academy, Austrian Institute of
European Security Policy, Gumpoldskirchen.
