Dieter Mahncke

Dieter Mahncke

Dieter Mahncke (* 1941 in Namibia ) is a German political scientist . He is a professor emeritus at the College of Europe in Bruges and Warsaw (holder of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Chair for European Foreign and Security Policy) and the author of numerous books and articles on German foreign policy, disarmament , European security, and German -american relations and with South Africa .

Life

Mahncke was born to German parents in Namibia and grew up there. He first studied at the University of Cape Town , but then moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where he graduated in 1962 with a bachelor's degree in political science . At the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University , he received his master’s degree in 1964 and his doctorate there in 1968. From 1969 to 1974 he was a research fellow at the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy . In 1974 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bonn . He was a lecturer at the University of Mainz from 1969 to 1972 and at the University of Bonn (1973–74), professor of political science at the universities of the Bundeswehr in Munich (1973) and Hamburg (1975–1980). From 1977 to 1978 he was Vice President there.

Dieter Mahncke was head of the speechwriting staff of the Federal President from 1980 to 1985, then deputy head of the planning staff in the Ministry of Defense until 1996. He then taught until his retirement in 2010 as professor for European foreign and security policy at the College of Europe. Until 2008 he headed the Department of Political and Administrative Sciences; from 2006 to 2010 he was founding director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies. He held visiting professorships in Halle , Antwerp, Sofia, Bangkok and in the USA (Dartmouth, Duke, Middlebury, University of North Carolina).

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (2017)
• Honorary Professor of the College of Europe (2016)
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1984)
• Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau (1982)

Fonts (selection)

• Nuclear participation. The Federal Republic of Germany in the Atlantic Alliance 1954–1970. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1972.
• Western European Defense Cooperation (ed. With Karl Carstens). With a foreword by Helmut Schmidt. Volume 31 of the publications of the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy. Publisher R. Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1972.
• Berlin in divided Germany. Volume 34 of the writings of the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy. Publisher R. Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1973.
• Maritime power and foreign policy (edited with Hans-Peter Schwarz). With a foreword by Georg Leber. Volume 11 of the series Armaments Restrictions and Security ”Alfred Metzner Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1974.
• Confidence-building measures as an instrument of security policy. Origin, development, prospects. Volume 59 of the research reports of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Verlag Ernst Knoth, Melle 1987.
• Conflict in South Africa. The political problems of South Africa in their domestic and foreign policy dimensions. Volume 12 of Studies on Politics. Schöningh-Verlag, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 1989.
• Americans in Germany. Basics and conditions of transatlantic security (ed.). With a foreword by Gerhard Stoltenberg. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1991.
• Parameters of European Security. Institute for Security Studies, Western European Union. Chaillot Papers 10, Paris, September 1993 (French: Les Paramètres de la Sécurité Européenne.)
• Confidence-building measures and a European security system: From Stockholm 1986 to Helsinki 1992. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV, Bonn 1994.
• ASEAN and the EU in the International Environment (ed. With Kullada Kesbonchoo-Mead, Prathoomporn Vajrasthira and Rudolf Hrbek). Asia-Europe Studies Series, Vol. 4, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1999.
• The College of Europe: Fifty Years of Service to Europe (ed. With L. Bekemans and R. Picht). Bruges 1999.
• Old Frontiers - New Frontiers. The Challenge of Kosovo and its Implications for the European Union (Ed.). With a foreword by Javier Solana Madariaga. Peter Lang, Bern 2001. ISBN 978-3-906765-67-9 .
• Redefining Transatlantic Security Relations: The Challenge of Change (with Wayne Thompson and Wyn Rees). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
• European Foreign Policy (ed. With Alicia Ambos & Christopher Reynolds), College of Europe Studies No. 1, Brussels: PIE Peter Lang, 2004. ISBN 90-5201-247-4 .
• International Terrorism. A European Response to a Global Threat? (Ed. with Jörg Monar), College of Europe Studies No. 3, Brussels: PIE Peter Lang, 2006. ISBN 90-5201-046-3 .
• Europe's Near Abroad. Promises and Prospects of the EU's Neighborhood Policy (ed. With Sieglinde Gstöhl), College of Europe Studies No. 4, Brussels: PIE Peter Lang, 2008. ISBN 978-90-5201-047-2 .
• European Union Diplomacy. Coherence, Unity and Effectiveness. With a preface by Herman Van Rompuy (ed. With Sieglinde Gstöhl), College of Europe Studies No. 15, Brussels: PIE Peter Lang 2012. ISBN 978-90-5201-842-3 .

Articles (selection)

• South West Africa 1904-1907. in: D. Condit and B. Cooper (eds.), Challenge and Response in Internal Conflict, Vol. III: The Experience in Africa and Latin America, Washington DC 1968, pp. 83-103.
• What is peace research? in: Europa-Archiv 22/1969, pp. 795–802.
• Atlantic Alliance and European Security. in: Schweizer Monatshefte, April 1970, pp. 2–35.
• The political upheaval in the Federal Republic of Germany: From the grand coalition to the SPD / FDP government. in: Die Internationale Politik 1968/1969, yearbook of the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy, Munich / Vienna 1974, pp. 374–390.
• Europe and the United States. in: Common Ground, July 1976, pp. 53-61.
• Completion of the reorganization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Eastern Europe. in: Die Internationale Politik 1973/1974, Yearbook of the German Society for Foreign Policy, Munich / Vienna 1980, pp. 193–216.
• Public participation in foreign policy in international comparison. Strengths and weaknesses of the democratic states. in: Austrian Journal for Foreign Policy 2/1982, pp. 94-103.
• Maritime interests and the Atlantic option of German politics after 1945. in: The German Fleet in the Tension Field of Politics 1848–1985, ed. from the Military History Research Office, Freiburg / Br. 1985, pp. 153-184.
• Defense in Europe: what speaks for a European security policy? in: Politische Studien, July / August 1986, pp. 423–433.
• Alternatives to nuclear deterrence as a basis for European security? in: From politics and contemporary history, supplement to Das Parlament, October 25, 1986, pp. 3–13.
• Alternatives to Nuclear Defense in Europe: Are we Talking about the Right Issue? in: P. Terrence Hopmann and Frank Barnaby (eds.), Rethinking the Nuclear Weapons Dilemma in Europe, London 1988, pp. 183-204.
• The legitimation of armed peacekeeping. in: Ulrich Sarcinelli (ed.), Democratic culture of debate. Theoretical basic positions and alternative courses of action in political fields, Opladen 1990, pp. 197–217.
• Hope without guarantee? Discussion with Elmar Schmähling. in: Die Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte 2/1990, pp. 150–156.
• South Africa's Foreign Policy: Is There a Way out of Isolation? in: From politics and contemporary history, supplement to Das Parlament, December 1990, pp. 1–9.
• Reunification as an Issue in German Politics 1949–1990. in: Dieter Grosser (ed.), German Unification. The Unexpected Challenge, Oxford 1992, pp. 33-54.
• Change in transition: Bundeswehr and European security. in: From politics and contemporary history, supplement to Das Parlament, April 1993, pp. 40–46.
• Internal German relations and international framework conditions: The Berlin crisis 1958–1961 / 62. Expert opinion for the Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag on the history and consequences of the SED dictatorship, Bonn / Berlin, October 1993 (107 pages), published in: Deutscher Bundestag (Ed.), Materials of the Enquete Commission, processing history and consequences of the SED dictatorship in Germany, Volume V, pp. 1766-1821, also pp. 17-27, 66-71.
• The Role of the USA in Europe: Successful Past but Uncertain Future? (1999)
• A Common European Foreign and Security Policy: Implications for Transatlantic Relations. in: Hanspeter Neuhold (Ed.), The GASP: Developments and Perspectives, Occasional Papers (4/2000) of the Diplomatic Academy Vienna, pp. 36–44.
• Russia's Attitude to the European Security and Defense Policy. in: European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 6, No. 4, Kluwer Law International, Winter 2001, pp. 427-436.
• Transatlantic Relations: Fractured or Simply Strained? in: Favorita Papers 02/2003, Diplomatic Academy Vienna, pp. 30–43.
• A New World Order? In: August Reinisch, Ursula Kriebaum (Ed.): The Law of International Relations - Liber Amicorum Hanspeter Neuhold. Eleven International Publishing, Utrecht 2007, pp. 211-227.
• The United States, Germany and France: Balancing Transatlantic Relations. in: The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 1/11 (February 2009), pp. 79–93.
• A Post-modern Diplomacy: Can EU Foreign Policy Make a Difference in World Politics? Bruges, EU Diplomacy Paper 04/2011 (PDF; 538 kB)
• What's wrong with the European Union? And what can be done? Bruges Political Research Papers / Cahiers de recherche politique de Bruges 54/2016.

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1. ↑ Dieter MAHNCKE | College of Europe In: coleurope.eu , accessed April 11, 2018.
2. ↑ Chairs of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation ( Memento from August 14, 2014)
3. ↑ List of publications in: whoswho.coleurope.eu . (PDF)
4. ↑ http://whoswho.coleurope.eu/w/*ird
5. ↑ Federal President's Office: Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from: 05.06.2019. In: Federal Gazette. June 25, 2019, accessed August 13, 2019 . 
6. ^ Alumni Roundtable and Honorary Lecture by Professor Dieter MAHNCKE. College of Europe / Collège d'Europe, accessed August 13, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Federal President's Office: Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the FRG on November 7, 1984 . In: Federal Gazette . No. 217 . Bonn November 16, 1984.
8. ↑ Lintjes / Onderscheidingen. Kanselarij der Nederlandse Orden, accessed on August 15, 2019 .