Andreas Falke

Andreas Falke (* 1952 ) is a German political scientist and professor of foreign studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Life

From 1972 to 1977 Falke studied social sciences , economics and English at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ( state examination 1978).

From 1979 to 1983 he was a research assistant with Peter Lösche at the Department of Political Science at the University of Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1985 .

Falke then worked for the American embassy in Bonn; initially in the department for public affairs and from 1992 as senior consultant in the economic department of the American embassy in Bonn / Berlin. During this activity , Falke completed his habilitation in 1996 at the University of Göttingen in political science with a thesis on American trade policy.

In 2002 he accepted a professorship for foreign studies with a focus on English-speaking societies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Since 2004, Falke has also been Director of the German-American Institute (DAI), Nuremberg.

Prizes and awards

• 1975 to 1976 Fulbright Fellow at the University of Miami , Florida, USA
• 1979 Thyssen Fellow at the Library of Congress , Washington DC
• 1989 Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution , Washington DC
• 1988-1989 John F. Kennedy -Gedächtnis Fellow, Harvard University

literature

• Andreas Falke: Federalism and local politics. in country report USA. History, politics, economy, society, culture. Series of publications 690. Federal Agency for Civic Education BpB, 5th neub. Aufl., Bonn 2008 ISBN 3-89331-851-8 pp. 160–195 (with lit.)

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Falke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae on the University of Erlangen website

Individual evidence

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