Franz Kernic

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Franz Kernic (* 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian officer ( colonel ), historian , political scientist and sociologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1978, Kernic joined the Austrian army . He graduated from the Theresian Military Academy (1979–1982) and studied history and political science at the University of Vienna from 1980 to 1985 (Mag. Phil.). From 1982 to 1984 he was stationed with Fliegerregiment 1 of the Austrian Air Force in Langenlebarn. At the end of 1984 he came to the Institute for Military Security Policy at the National Defense Academy in Vienna, where he worked as a senior teaching officer and researcher. In 1987 he was at the University of Vienna with the dissertationThe liberal military policy in the second republic, study on the defense program and policy of the VdU and the FPÖ from 1949 to 1986 (published in the series Military History Dissertations of Austrian Universities ) for Dr. phil. PhD. From 1993 to 1997 he worked at the Institute for Strategic Research.

He also studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the University of Vienna, the University of Philosophy in Munich and the Distance University in Hagen (MA 2000 through Emmanuel Lévinas ). In 2001 he completed his habilitation in political science at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Innsbruck (habilitation thesis: Politics and the military. Approaches to a phenomenological and social scientific critique of military violence ), where he received a university professorship . In 2004 he completed his habilitation in general sociology, with a special focus on military sociology, at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich in Neubiberg, where he became a private lecturer.

Since 2008 he has been Professor of Sociology at the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership at the Swedish Defense School (Försvarshögskolan) in Stockholm, Sweden, where he has been on leave since 2013. Since then he has been a lecturer in leadership and communication at the military academy at the ETH Zurich MILAK in Switzerland. He is also a lecturer at the Department for Business Law and European Integration at the Lower Austrian University for Continuing Education in Krems .

He was u. a. 1998 Visiting Scholar at the Department of Political Science at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, 2000 Visiting Research Fellow at Stanford University in Palo Alto / California, 2004 Visiting Professor and Minister José Ignacio Zenteno Chair in Strategic Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago and 2005/07/08 visiting scholar in residence and sessional lecturer or visiting professor at the Center for European Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa / Ontario. In 2009 he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. Further stations led him u. a. to King's College London , the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris, Northwestern University in Evanston / Illinois and Complutense University Madrid .

His main research interests include a. International relations, peace and conflict research, security policy, military sociology, political theory and sociology, European integration, leadership and communication as well as Latin American studies.

Fonts (selection)

  • Between words and deeds. The defense policy of the Freedom Party 1949–1986 (= military history dissertations from Austrian universities . 8). Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-215-06415-4 .
  • with Udo Rumerskirch, Wolfgang Schneider: The isolated army. Critical remarks on national defense . Signum-Verlag, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-85436-099-1 .
  • Democracy and defense system. Essays on the relationship between society, the political system and the army in Austria (= studies on defense pedagogy , military science and security policy . Vol. 3). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-631-31580-5 .
  • with Harald Haas: On the sociology of UN peacekeeping operations. Results of socio-empirical surveys among Austrian UN contingents (= Inner Leadership Forum . Vol. 2). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5494-1 .
  • with Harald Haas: Warriors for peace. A sociological study on the Austrian experience of UN peacekeeping (= Studies on Defense Education, Military Science and Security Policy . Vol. 6). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-631-35094-5 .
  • Social sciences and military. A critical analysis . Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-8244-4473-9 .
  • War, society and the military. A search for traces of the history of culture and ideas (= Inner Leadership Forum . Vol. 14). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7422-5 .
  • Death and infinity. About the phenomenon of death in Emmanuel Lévinas (= Boethiana series . Vol. 55). Kovač, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-8300-0765-5 .
  • with Werner W. Ernst (Ed.): Public opinion and European security policy. Austria's security and defense policy in transition (= military and social sciences . Vol. 28). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-7857-3 .
  • with Jean M. Callaghan, Philippe Manigart: Public opinion on European security and defense. A survey of European trends and public attitudes toward CFSP and ESDP (= Studies for military pedagogy, military science & security policy . Vol. 7). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-631-39173-0 .
  • Criticism of Military Force. [A socio-theoretical analysis of the relationship between politics, the state and the organized collective use of force] . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-631-39660-0 .
  • with Jean M. Callaghan (Ed.): Armed forces and international security. Global trends and issues . Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-7227-0 .
  • with Karl W. Haltiner , Paul Klein (eds.): The European armed forces in transition. A comparative analysis . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-631-53366-7 .
  • with Gunther Hauser (Ed.): Handbook for European Security . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-631-52920-1 . (2nd revised edition 2006)
  • with Walter Feichtinger (Ed.): Transatlantic Relations in Change. Security aspects of relations between the European Union and Latin America . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-2015-3 .
  • The external relations of the European Union. An introduction . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-54952-0 .
  • with Gunther Hauser (ed.): China. The rising power . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58269-5 .
  • with Harald Haas, Andrea Plaschke (ed.): Leadership in challenging situations . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-62273-5 .
  • with Sven Bernhard Gareis , Gunther Hauser (Ed.): The European Union - a global actor? . Budrich, Opladen u. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-8474-0040-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kernic, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer, historian, political scientist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna