Albrecht Rothacher

Albrecht Rothacher (* 1955 in Erlangen ) is a book author, EU diplomat and is considered an Eastern European and East Asian specialist.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1974 at the Old Electoral High School in Bensheim , he did his military service with the Supply Company 360, a unit of the 12th Panzer Division, in Bad Mergentheim . From 1975 he studied social sciences at the Technical University of Berlin , at the University of Konstanz and as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Bridgeport and Yale University in Connecticut. He graduated in 1978 and received his PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1982 . In the meantime he was research assistant at the International Christian University in Mitaka and at the European University Institute in Florence .

Rothacher has been a European civil servant since 1984, mostly in the diplomatic service of the European Union. a. First Counselor to the EU Delegation to the OSCE in Vienna (2005–2009) and Director of Public Relations at the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) in Singapore (2001–2005). 2011–15 he was envoy counselor to the EU delegation in Tokyo . In 2003, Rothacher founded the now very reputable "Asia Europe Journal" (Springer Verlag) as a quarterly social science journal and was editor-in-chief until 2010. From 2015 to 2017 he was an exchange diplomat in the European department of the Quai d'Orsay with security and Asian issues. Since then he has been Head of the Board of Directors for Russian Economic Affairs in the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels.

Awards

Rothacher is the holder of the Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria and the Robert Schuman Medal of the European Commission .

Publications

As an author

• The misfortune of power. French presidents from de Gaulle to Macron ; Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2019 ISBN 978-3-8305-3959-9
• Okinawa. The final battle of World War II. Prehistory, course and consequences . Munich: Iudicium 2018
• The field gray. Living, fighting and dying on the Western Front (1914–1918). Beltheim: Lindenbaum Verlag 2015.
• The commissioners. The rise and fall of careers in Brussels. A collective biography of the German and Austrian commissioners since 1958. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag 2012.
• Democracy and Rule in Japan. A power cartel in transition. Munich: Iudicium Verlag 2010.
• Politics in Japan. Power structures and policy field analyzes. A reader. Vienna: Facultas Verlag 2009.
• Stalin's long shadow. Medvedev's Russia and the post-Soviet space. Graz: Ares Verlag 2008.
• The Chinese are coming - or not? China's reach for world power. Vienna: OeLM Verlag 2007.
• The return of the samurai. Japan's economy after the crisis. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag 2007.
• Myth Asia? Light and dark sides of a region on the move. Munich: Olzog Verlag 2007.
• Corporate globalization. Business Cultures in Europe and in Asia. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press / Marshall Cavendish Academic 2005.
• Japanese Customs and Etiquette. Selangor / Singapore: Times Editions - Marshall Cavendish 2005.
• Corporate Cultures and Global Brands. Singapore / Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific 2004 (Chinese translation by Longstone Publishing, Taipei 2006).
• Uniting Europe. Journey between Gloom and Glory. London: Imperial College Press. 2005.
• In the wild east. Behind the scenes of the upheaval in Eastern Europe. Hamburg: Reinhard Kraemer Verlag 2002.
• The transformation of Central Eastern Europe: economy, politics and society in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Lithuania. Vienna: Österreichischer Wirtschaftsverlag 1999.
• The Japanese Power Elite. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press 1993 (Reprinted in 2005 by Palgrave-Macmillan).
• Japan's agro-food sector. The Politics and Economics of Excess Protection. London: Macmillan 1989.
• Economic Diplomacy between the European Community and Japan. Aldershot: Gower 1983.

As editor

° (ed.) Japan that day. Eyewitness reports on March 11, 2011. Munich: Iudicium Verlag 2014

• (Ed.) The Asia Media Directory. Singapore: Konrad Adenauer Foundation 2005.
• (Ed.) Austria's European Future - Analyzes and Perspectives. Vienna: Signum Verlag 1996.
• (Ed.) Agriculture and Ecology in Japan. Munich: Iudicium Verlag 1992.

Web links

• Literature by and about Albrecht Rothacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Albrecht Rothacher at the EU delegation in Japan