August Pradetto

August Pradetto (* 1949 in Graz ) is a German political scientist .

Life

Pradetto studied political science, journalism and German at the Free University of Berlin , where he also received his doctorate . From 1977 he was a lecturer and from 1979 research assistant at the Department of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. After a year abroad in Warsaw (1984/85) he worked at the University of Vienna and at the Institute of European Studies (Vienna Program) as well as at the Center for International and Intercultural Studies at Sankt Lawrence University (Vienna) until 1989 before moving to the Freie Universität University of Berlin returned.

In 1992, Pradetto was appointed professor of political science at the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg , in particular foreign and international politics in Eastern European countries. In 2006 he was also appointed to the Hong Kong Baptist University , where he was Professor of International Relations at the Department of Government and International Studies until 2008. In 2014 he retired . Since then he has been teaching and researching at various scientific institutions and universities.

Pradetto's work focuses on foreign policy and regional security in Europe, international crisis management, NATO expansion to the east , German foreign and security policy, as well as foreign deployments of the Bundeswehr ( Balkans , Afghanistan ), the transformation of post-communist systems, and security in Central Asia . After the end of the Cold War , he turned a critical focus on Western intervention policy and its legitimacy as well as on international crises such as “9/11” / Afghanistan / Iraq , Libya / Syria and Ukraine / Russia .

Since 2004 August Pradetto has been editor of the series “Strategic Culture in Europe” at the Peter Lang Publishing Group .

Fonts (selection)

• Techno-bureaucratic socialism - Poland in the Gierek era (1970–1980) , Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt et al. 1991.
• Bureaucratic anarchy - the decline of Polish "real socialism" , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne 1992.
• The reconstruction of East Central Europe - politics, economy, society in transition , (ed.) Ed. West German publishing house, Opladen 1994.
• East Central Europe, Russia and the eastward expansion of NATO - perceptions and strategies in the field of tension between national and European security , (Ed.). Ed. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997.
• The debate about the costs of NATO's eastward expansion (ed. With FM Alamir), Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1998.
• Conflict management through military intervention? Dilemmas of Western Kosovo Politics , Studies on International Politics (Hamburg), No. 1, 1998.
• NATO on the way into the 21st century , (ed. With Heiner Timmermann), LIT Verlag, Münster et al. 2002.
• The second round of NATO's eastward expansion - Between post-bipolar institutionalism and offensive realism , (ed.) Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 2004.
• Security and Defense after September 11, 2001: Actors - Strategies - Patterns of Action , (ed.) Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 2004.
• Presidents in post-communist countries - A handbook , (together with Carola Weckmüller) Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 2004.
• Human security and foreign missions of the Bundeswehr , (ed.) LIT Verlag, Münster et al. 2005.
• Intervention, regime change, forced migration: The cases of Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq , Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 2008.
• Civil-military cooperation and comprehensive approach in the context of post-bipolar world order policy , Studies on International Politics (Hamburg), No. 2, 2011.
• Democratic Peace, Responsibility to Protect and “Humanitarian Intervention” in Libya , (ed.) Studies on International Politics, No. 1, 2012.
• Central Asia and the world powers, or: Great Game Boys on trips , Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 2012.
• The Crimea, the angry Russians and the indignant West . Sheets for German and International Politics, No. 5/2014, pp. 73–78 link
• The Ukraine Crisis: Geopolitics and Identity in the Relationship between Russia and the West , In: Die Friedens-Warte (1–2 / 2014), pp. 31–58.
• Norms, interests, projections: Germany and the military intervention in Libya 2011 ; in: Beestermöller, Gerhard (Hrsg.): Libya: Abuse of Responsibility to Protect? Baden-Baden 2014: Nomos, pp. 65–114.
• East-West relations and German foreign policy since reunification , In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (33–34 / 2015), pp. 48–56 link
• Deconstruction of Sovereignty - Discourses on the Legitimacy of Military Interventions , In: Die Friedens-Warte (1–2 / 2015), pp. 15–25.
• R2P, regime change in Libya and non-intervention in Syria: breakthrough or coffin nail for the responsibility to protect? , In: Staack, Michael / Krause, Dan (Hrsg.): Responsibility to Protect in the Debate - The R2P after the Libya Dissent , Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen 2015, pp. 15–54.
• The war finances the war - The transatlantic relations and NATO before and with Trump , In: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik (4/2017), pp. 97-106 link
• Ukraine, Russia and the West: The staging of a crisis as a geopolitical conflict , In: Staack, Michael (Ed.): The Ukraine conflict, Russia and the European security order. Vienna 2017, pp. 21–72 link
• With all his might: Putin for the fourth , In: Blätter für German and international politics, No. 4/2018, pp. 44–52 link
• Cold War return? Foreign policy identity building and confrontational strategies after the end of bipolarity ; in: Kompass, No. 09/2018, pp. 6–9.
• The hybrid alliance. NATO expansion to the east between integration and confrontation . In: Wissenschaft und Frieden, No. 1/2019, pp. 8–12 link
• 70 Years of NATO: From Confrontation to Integration and Back Again ; in: Blätter für deutsche und Internationale Politik 4/2019, pp. 93–102 link
• Multiple failures: WHO, EU and Germany in the corona crisis. WIFIS working paper No. 3, Hamburg, June 2020 [1]

Individual evidence

1. ^ Curriculum vitae in Pradetto's dissertation

Web links

• Literature by and about August Pradetto in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page Emeritus Professor Pradetto HSU