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Achim Brunnengräber (* 1963 in Lorsch ) is a German political scientist specializing in international relations .

Life

Brunnengräber completed a teaching degree with subjects such as social studies , physics and mathematics at the Heidelberg University of Education between 1983 and 1987 . He then moved to the Free University of Berlin in 1988 , where he began studying political science, which he completed in 1992 with a degree in political science. This was followed by postgraduate studies in development policy with a focus on non-governmental organizations at the University of Bremen from 1993 to 1995 , with which Brunnengräber also qualified as a development politician in 1996.

In 1996 he returned to the University of Berlin to there at the Department of Political and Social Sciences to do a doctorate . His dissertation , presented and defended in 2000, deals with the topic of transnational networks in the conflict field of climate. Non-governmental organizations as "new" actors in international politics . Brunnengräber completed his habilitation in the same department in July 2007 with a thesis on global climate governance. A multi-level analysis of the political economy of the climate and a lecture on parliaments in the globalization process .

Following his habilitation, Brunnengräber was appointed private lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin . At the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science there , he received a visiting professorship for international political economy in the 2007/08 winter semester . From the winter semester 2009/10 to the summer semester 2012 he was a substitute professor for international politics at the Technical University of Dresden .

Research activity

In his research, Achim Brunnengräber mainly deals with international political economy , theories of international relations, multilevel governance and global governance , environmental and climate policy , global political networks , global protest movements and forms of global democracy .

Brunnengräber is a liaison professor and a member of the North-South Scientific Advisory Board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation . He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the non-governmental organization Attac . From March 2000 to October 2002 Brunnengräber was a research assistant for the Bundestag member Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker , the chairman of the Enquête Commission Globalization of the World Economy - Challenges and Answers . Between May 2002 and June 2007 he headed the research project Global Governance and Climate Change funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . A multi-level analysis of the conditions, risks and opportunities of social-ecological transformation .

Since 2012, Achim Brunnengräber has been the head of the international comparative analysis of disposal governance in the multilevel system with special consideration of actors, political instruments and institutions as a sub-project of the research platform Disposal options for radioactive residues: Interdisciplinary analyzes and development of assessment bases (ENTRIA) .

Together with Lutz Mez , Brunnengräber publishes the energy policy and climate protection series of books published by VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften .

Publications

Monographs

together with Heike Walk: Die Globalisierungswächter. NGOs and their transnational networks in the conflict field of climate , Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2000. ISBN 3-89691-485-5
together with Ulrich Brand , Lutz Schrader, Christian Stock and Peter Wahl : Global Governance. Alternatives to neoliberal globalization? , Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2000. ISBN 3-89691-471-5
together with Kristina Dietz, Bernd Hirschl, Heike Walk and Melanie Weber: Rethinking the climate. A socio-ecological perspective on local, national and international climate policy , Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2008. ISBN 3-89691-732-3
The political economy of climate change (results of social-ecological research, vol. 11), Munich: Oekom 2009. ISBN 3-86581-096-9
- at the same time Habil.-Schr. under the title: Global Climate Governance. A multilevel analysis of the political economy of the climate , FU Berlin 2007.
Perpetual burdens. The 'final disposal' of radioactive waste as a social, political and scientific project , Baden-Baden: edition sigma in Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 2015. ISBN 978-3-8487-2479-6 Further information on the publication Ewigkeitslasten

Editorships

together with Ansgar Klein and Heike Walk: NGOs as a legitimation resource. Civil society forms of participation in the globalization process, Opladen . Leske + Budrich 2001. ISBN 3-8100-3130-5
Global public goods under privatization pressure (Festschrift for Elmar Altvater ), Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2003. ISBN 3-89691-548-7
together with Ansgar Klein and Heike Walk: NGOs in the process of globalization. Mighty dwarfs - controversial giants , Wiesbaden: VS 2005. ISBN 3-8100-4092-4
together with Heike Walk (2007): Multi-Level-Governance. Environmental, climate and social policy in an interdependent world (Writings on Governance Research, Vol. 9) Baden-Baden: Nomos. ISBN 3-8329-2706-9
together with Elmar Altvater (2008): Trading indulgences against climate change? Market-based instruments in global climate policy and their alternatives , Hamburg: VSA. ISBN 3-89965-291-6
together with Hans-Jürgen Burchardt and Christoph Görg : With more levels for more design? Multi-level governance in transnational social and environmental policy (publications on governance research, vol. 14) Baden-Baden: Nomos 2008. ISBN 3-8329-3624-6
Civilization of the climate regime. NGOs and social movements in national, European and international climate policy , Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. ISBN 3-531-18086-X
together with Elmar Altvater (Eds.) (2011): After Cancún: Climate Governance or Climate Conflicts, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, VS Research Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz.
together with Dietz, Kristina; Engels, Bettina; Pye, Oliver (Eds.) (2014): The Political Ecology of Agrofuels , Oxford: Routledge
together with Rosaria di Nucci (2014): In the hurdles for the energy transition. About transformations, reforms and innovations (Festschrift for Lutz Mez ), Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
together with Di Nucci, Maria Rosaria; Isidoro Losada, Ana María; Lutz Mez and Schreurs, Miranda (Eds.) (2015): Nuclear Waste Governance. An International Comparison , Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Problem trap repository. Social challenges in dealing with nuclear waste , Baden-Baden 2016 ISBN 978-3-8487-3510-5 .