Hubert Zimmermann

Hubert Zimmermann (* 1964 ) is a German political scientist and historian .

Life

Zimmermann graduated from the Carl-von-Linde-Gymnasium Kempten (Allgäu) and then studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich the subjects of modern and contemporary as well as medieval history, political science and American studies. After an internship at the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union in Brussels, he began a doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence in 1992 . He received his PhD in history in 1997 with a thesis on the relationship between currency and security policy in German-American and German-British relations during the Cold War, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002 under the title 'Money and Security'. After working as the editor of diplomatic files for the Foreign Office at the branch of the Institute for Contemporary History in Bonn, he switched to the Department of International Politics at the Ruhr University in Bochum as a research assistant . In 2003 he went as a DAAD Visiting Associate Professor at the Cornell University in Ithaca . In 2005 he completed his habilitation with a comparative study of American and European politics in the process of the People's Republic of China being accepted into the WTO. In 2008/2009 he represented the chair for comparative political science at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Since October 2009 he has been representing the International Relations department at the Philipps University of Marburg .

research

In the broadest sense, Zimmermann's research focuses on the interaction between security and economic policy. In addition to his work on transatlantic relations and EU foreign trade policy, he has dealt with international financial and monetary policy, European fisheries policy, the emergence and crisis of the euro as well as foreign military interventions. A textbook on international politics was published in 2019

various

Zimmermann regularly comments on international and European politics on the Phoenix news channel and in other media.

Publications (selection)

• 2019: Basics of International Relations. An introduction (with M. Elsinger), Kohlhammer: Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-17-032397-1 .
• 2016: (ed. With Andreas Dür), Key Controversies in European Integration (The European Union Series), 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan: London (1st edition 2012). 2007: Dragon taming. The EU and the USA in the process of integrating China into the world trading system, NOMOS Verlag: Baden-Baden.
• 2009: (ed. With Eric Helleiner / Stefano Pagliari), Global Finance in Crisis. The Politics of International Regulatory Change, Routledge: London.
• 2007: (ed. With Andreas Dür), The EU in International Trade Negotiations (Special Issue 'Journal of Common Market Studies'), Vol. 45, No. 4 (November).
• 2006: (ed. With Francisco Torres / Amy Verdun), EMU Rules: The Political and Economic Consequences of European Monetary Integration, NOMOS: Baden-Baden.
• 2002: Money and Security. Troops and Monetary Policy in Germany's Relations to the United States and the United Kingdom, 1950-71, Cambridge UP: Cambridge.

Web links

• Hubert Zimmermann on the Political Science page of the University of Marburg, accessed on August 30, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ^ Money and Security. Troops and Monetary Policy in Germany's Relations to the United States and the United Kingdom, 1950–71, Cambridge UP: Cambridge 2002.
2. ↑ 2000: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1969 (with Franz Eibl), Ed. Institute for Contemporary History, Oldenbourg: Munich.
3. ↑ 2007: How to Train Your Dragon. The EU and the USA in the process of integrating China into the world trading system, NOMOS Verlag: Baden-Baden.
4. ↑ Hubert Zimmermann. (PDF, 0.4MB) Philipps University of Marburg , accessed on August 30, 2019 . 
5. ^ Basics of International Relations. An introduction (with M. Elsinger), Kohlhammer: Stuttgart 2019. ISBN 978-3-17-032397-1 .