Franz Nuscheler

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Franz Nuscheler at the German Catholic Day 2008 in Osnabrück

Franz Nuscheler (born April 11, 1938 in Bad Wörishofen ) is a German political scientist . Until his retirement in 2003 he was Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Duisburg.

Life

Nuscheler studied political science, history and public law at the University of Heidelberg . In 1967 he did his doctorate with Dolf Sternberger on Walter Bagehot and the English constitutional theory . From 1969 to 1975 Nuscheler then became a research assistant at the University of Hamburg , where he was, among other things, the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 14 (Latin America). As early as 1974 he was offered a professorship for International and Comparative Politics at what was then the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg.

From 1990 to May 2006 Nuscheler was director of the Institute for Development and Peace .

Research priorities

Since his research work, Franz Nuscheler has placed global questions at the center of his entire scientific work. As a scientist, he has always campaigned for normatively demanding global politics. The cornerstones of his work include:

Nuscheler is less concerned with a sociology of international relations than with the regulatory goal of a socio-ecological market economy on a world level that grants the poor fair development opportunities, (2001,9):

“The fight against poverty must therefore be taken out of the corner of a poor and compassionate policy and understood as a command of political reason and enlightened self-interest. And it has to be integrated into the architecture of a world social order. "

In addition, Nuscheler wanted to not only write for a small academic group, but also to reach a larger group of people interested in development policy (examples: learning and work book development policy from 1985 or the youth book Nirgendwo Heimat ).

Global governance

The question of how world problems can be solved under globalization conditions has particularly preoccupied him in recent years and has led him to global governance (GG). GG denotes a concept that tries to answer the question of the political controllability of world problems and globalization tendencies. The necessity of solving world problems in the course of advancing globalization calls for a globalization of politics, since the procedures and instruments of the nation-state power and interest politics no longer meet the requirements to solve this multitude of problems. GG now describes the new organizational structures of this new globalized policy. The term GG appeared in the scientific discussion for the first time in a 1995 report, Neighbors in One World by the Commission of Global Governance . According to Messner and Nuscheler, the core statements of the GG concept, which is now highly controversial in the international discussion, are:

  • Global governance does not mean global government , i.e. world state or world government.
  • GG is based on various forms and levels of international coordination and cooperation and collective decision-making. International organizations take on the coordination and the respective nation states, which are contractually bound to the organization, translate the willingness to cooperate into binding regulations.
  • Shared sovereignty results in a gain in common ability to act and solve problems ⇒ loss of sovereignty.
  • GG calls for state and non-state actors to work together from the global to the local level. Horizontal and vertical entanglements in the economy and civil society are intended to promote this process.
  • The main actors in international politics remain the nation states, which bundle the respective interests of the economy, NGOs and civil society on their territory and thus form the supporting pillars of the GG architecture.

Conclusion: Global governance tries to provide answers to the question of how the world can still be governed.

Research projects

Participation in committees and commissions

Works

  • Learning and workbook development policy. 7., revised. u. actual Edition. Dietz, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-8012-0430-3 . (basic introduction to the central development issues of globalization, state failure, hunger, population, economy and environment)
  • The end of the 'Age of Human Rights'. How the 'war on terror' threatens civil liberties. In: Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (Hrsg.): Kultur und Gerechtigkeit (= cultural studies interdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society. Volume 2). Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-2604-5 .
  • Europe's responsibility in the age of globalization. In: Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (ed.): Europe in the world - the world in Europe. (= Interdisciplinary cultural studies / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society. Volume 1). Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1934-1 .
  • International migration. Escape and asylum. (= Basic knowledge of politics series. Volume 14). 2nd Edition. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-3757-5 .
  • with Ingomar Hauchler and Dirk Messner (eds.): Global Trends 2004/2005. Facts, analyzes, forecasts. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-16026-X .
  • with Paul Kennedy and Dirk Messner (eds.): Global Trends and Global Governance. Pluto Press, London 2002.
  • as Ed .: Development and Peace in the 21st Century. On the history of the Brandt Report's impact. (= One of the WORLD texts of the Development and Peace Foundation. Special volume). Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-8012-0288-7 .
  • with Dieter Nohlen (ed.): Handbook of the Third World. 3. Edition. 8 volumes. JHW Dietz Successor, Bonn 1992. (leading development book in the German-speaking area)
  • Japan's development policy. Quantitative superlatives and qualitative deficits. In: Communications from the Institute for Asian Studies. No. 181/1990, ISBN 3-88910-071-6 .
  • Nowhere at home - people on the run. 3. Edition. dtv , Munich 1988, ISBN 3-423-79025-3 .
  • Walter Bagehot and the English constitutional theory. Meisenheim 1969.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members. Migration Council, accessed 10 July 2020 .
  2. ↑ Advisory Board. In: Bertelsmann Transformation Index. Bertelsmann Stiftung, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nuscheler, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Woerishofen