Heinz Gärtner (political scientist)

Heinz Gärtner, 2011

Heinz Gärtner (born March 7, 1951 in Pisweg , municipality of Gurk) is an Austrian political scientist and journalist.

academic education

After attending the Bundes- und Bundesrealgymnasium Klagenfurt , he passed the final exams in 1970 . This was followed by a nine-month military service in Klagenfurt. From 1971 he studied political science , journalism and communication theory at the University of Salzburg . In November 1977 he received his doctorate with distinction, in March 1990 he received his habilitation as a university lecturer at the University of Innsbruck and on May 10, 2001 he was awarded the title of university professor .

Professional position

Heinz Gärtner has been Scientific Director of the Austrian Institute for International Politics (OIIP) since January 2013 .

From 1979 to December 2012 he was a research assistant at the oiip. Since 1983 he has been teaching at the Universities of Vienna , Innsbruck and the University of Salzburg . From 1998 to 2001 he was visiting professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna. He is editor of the book series Internationale Sicherheit at Peter Lang Verlag .

International research and teaching activities

• Summer 2012 professorship at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, USA
• 2008 Fulbright Professorship at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University, USA
• 2005 International Visitors Program at the University of New Haven (including participation in programs in Yale and Hartford), USA
• 2001–2002 Visiting Austrian Professor (Austrian Chair) in Stanford, USA
• Autumn 2001 Fulbright Professorship, research project: “European Security and the Transatlantic Link,” World Policy Institute, New York, USA
• Spring 1999 International Visitor Program “Special IV Project Honoring 50th Anniversary of NATO,” Washington, DC New York, Boston, USA
• 1994–1995 substitute professor at the University of Erlangen, Germany
• 1993 Visiting Fellow at the Institute of International Relations, Vancouver, Canada
• 1992 Visiting Fellow at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, Great Britain
• 1987–1989 Resident Fellow at the Institute for East-West Security Studies, New York, USA

In addition, Heinz Gärtner regularly gives lectures at the universities of Harvard , Stanford, Princeton , Columbia , Oxford and numerous other American, European and Asian universities and research institutes. He also teaches at the National Defense Academy in Vienna.

Prices

• 2006 Jean Monnet Module Visiting Professor at the Institute for Transborder Studies , Kwantlen University College, British Columbia, Canada
• In 1998 Gärtner received the Bruno Kreisky Acknowledgment Prize for the Political Book for his book Models of European Security .
• In 1998 the OIIP was awarded the NATO “ Manfred Wörner Fellowship”.

Consultancy and media activities

Heinz Gärtner comments regularly in European and Austrian media, including CNN , BBC , ORF . He is also an advisor to the Austrian Ministry of Defense, as well as to the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), for Transatlantic Strategies for a more Secure World and Senior Partner of the consulting firm Global Concepts and Communications (GCC).

• In 2010 he worked at the Social Democratic project Austria in 2020 with
• In 2009 he was a member of the jury for the Austrian security research program KIRAS
• In 2007 he was a reviewer for the 7-EU framework program for the social, economic and human sciences
• In 2007 he was a reviewer for the COST Assessment Panel
• In 2005 he was a scientific member of the Austrian delegation to the Wassenaar Agreement during the Austrian Presidency
• Expert from the Agency for Quality Assurance through Accreditation of Study Programs (AQAS)
• 1997–2008 he was a member of the Internal and External Security Commission of the Social Democratic Party

Management of major projects with third-party funding

• 2010/2011 Project The Dissemination of Nuclear and Radiological Material: Hazard Potential, Prevention Options for Austria , Department of Social Sciences, Sub-area: Political Science, Austrian National Bank, Jubilee Fund
• 2007/2008 (together with Otmar Höll ) Protection of Critical Infrastructure , KIRAS, funded by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Austrian Institute for International Politics (oiip) and National Defense Academy
• 2000/2001 Comprehensive Security , funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research and Education. Austrian Institute for International Politics (oiip)

Selected functions and memberships

in Austria

• Commission on the Austrian Chair in Stanford
• Fulbright Student Grant Commission
• Austrian Society for Political Science
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Journal for Political Science (ÖZP)
• Chairman of the arbitration committee for the residents of the WIST homes in Vienna (WIST means economic aid for students , operator of student dormitories in Austria)
• Editorial Board of International Politics magazine (USA)
• Advisory board for the journal Security and Peace
• Peer Review Board of the Marshall Center in Garmisch
• Scientific Advisory Board of the Düsseldorf Institute for Foreign and Security Policy (DIAS)
• Membership in the International Studies Association (ISA)
• 2006 to 2010 member of the Steering Group of the Standing Group on International Relations of the European Consortium for Political Research
• Reviewer of various Austrian and international journals such as Foreign Policy Analysis, International Politics, Contemporary Security Policy, Marshall Center Papers; Austrian journal for political science.

Newer books

• The American President and the New World (Lit-Verlag: Münster, 2012)
• Obama And The Bomb: The Vision Of A World Free Of Nuclear Weapons (ed.), (Peter Lang publisher: Frankfurt-New York- Vienna; 2011)
• Obama: Weltmacht - on new paths, (Lit-Verlag: Münster, 2010 - third revised and updated edition, first edition, 2008)
• International Security - Definitions from A – Z, (Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2008 - second revised and updated edition - first edition, 2005)
• European Security and Transatlantic Relations after September 11 and the Iraq War, Heinz Gärtner / Ian Cuthbertson (ed.) (Palgrave-MacMillan: Houndmills), 2005
• Small States and Alliances, Heinz Gärtner / Erich Reiter (ed.), (Springer: Berlin) 2001, 300 pages
• Europe's New Security Challenges, Heinz Gärtner / Adrian Hyde-Price / Erich Reiter (ed.), (Lynne Rinner: Boulder / London) 2001

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of Heinz Gärtner , access February 25, 2011

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Gärtner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinz Gärtner's website