Carlo Masala

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Carlo Masala (born March 27, 1968 in Cologne ) is a German political scientist , professor and holder of the chair for international politics at the faculty for political and social sciences at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich in Neubiberg .

Life

From 1988 to 1992 Masala studied political science as well as German and Romance philology at the University of Cologne (M.A. 1992) and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In Cologne he then worked initially as a research assistant and later as an academic adviser . In 1996 he was at Werner Link at the city's Department of Political Science and European Affairs with a dissertation on the German-Italian relations to Dr. phil. PhD . A year later he became a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Research (ZEI) there. In 2002 he completed his habilitation in political science on the southern threat to European security.

A year later he took over a chair at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich . From 2004 he worked as a research advisor at the NATO Defense College in Rome . From 2006 to 2007 he was Deputy Director in the Academic Research Branch. Since July 2007 he has held the professorship for international politics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. In 2011 he became dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. In 2016 he turned down an offer at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . Visiting professorships and research stays have taken him to the United States and various European countries. He is considered a neorealist and researches mainly in the areas of international politics / foreign policy , comparative governance , security policy , transatlantic relations and current developments in the Mediterranean region .

Masala is a member of the German Society for Political Science (from 2015 to 2017 as chairman) and the German Society for Foreign Policy . He has also been a member of the scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Education and Science for the social science part of security research since 2009 . Since 2010 he has published the magazine for international relations together with Stephan Stetter ; He is also co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Politik and Sirius. Journal for Strategic Analysis .

Since July 2018 Masala discussed along with Thomas Wiegold ( blog augengeradeaus.net), Frank Sauer (Bundeswehr University Munich) and Ulrike Franke (European Council on Foreign Relations) in the German podcast safe side on issues of security policy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Italia and Germania: The German-Italian Relations 1963–1969 (= Cologne work on international politics . Vol. 7). SH-Verlag, Vierow near Greifswald 1997, ISBN 3-89498-041-9 .
  • with Ralf Roloff (Ed.): Challenges of Realpolitik: Contributions to the theoretical debate in international politics (= Cologne work on international politics . Vol. 8). SH-Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-89498-048-6 .
  • with Andreas Jacobs (ed.): Hannibal ante portas ?: Analyzes on security on the southern flank of Europe (= current materials on international politics . Vol. 61). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 3-7890-6847-0 .
  • (Ed.): The Mediterranean Area - Bridge or Border? (= Writings of the Center for European Integration Research . Vol. 48). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-7780-1 .
  • The view to the south? NATO in the Mediterranean (1990–2003). Case study on the adaptation of military alliances to new security policy framework conditions (= publications of the Center for European Integration Research . Vol. 57). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2003, ISBN 3-8329-0371-2 .
  • Kenneth N. Waltz: Introduction to his theory and examination of his critics . With a foreword by John J. Mearsheimer and an afterword by Kenneth N. Waltz . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2005, ISBN 3-8329-1066-2 .
  • with Frank Sauer, Andreas Wilhelm (ed.): Handbook of international politics . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-14352-1 .
  • with Stephan Stetter, Marina Karbowski (Ed.): Certainly unsafe ?: Debates on war and peace in international relations (= ZIB-Reader . 02). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-0970-0 .
  • World disorder. The global crises and the failures of the West . 2nd, revised and expanded edition, CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72023-9 (first edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69918-4 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Wiegold: To be on the safe side: Security policy for the ears - a podcast in German. In: augengeradeaus.net. July 19, 2018, accessed November 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ To be on the safe side. In: Soundcloud . Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Masala, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, professor of international politics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne , Germany