James D. Bindenagel

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Bindenagel during a lecture at the Center for International Security and Governance of the University of Bonn (2016)

James D. Bindenagel (born June 30, 1949 in Huron , South Dakota ) is an American political scientist and former diplomat who served as Chargé d'Affaires in 1996 and 1997. i. headed the US embassy in Bonn.

Life

James D. Bindenagel studied Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana , where he obtained a BA in 1971 and an MA in Public Administration in 1977 . Bindenagel was in the US diplomatic service from 1972 to 2002. As a soldier in the US Army , he was stationed in Würzburg from 1972 to 1974 . After a secondment to Seoul , he was consul in Bremen from 1977 to 1979 .

After further activities in the US State Department, he was a senior diplomat (Deputy American Ambassador) in the American embassy to the GDR in East Berlin in 1989/90 . In 1991/92 he was a manager at Rockwell International . Between 1992 and 1994 he was Central European Director in the State Department in Washington, DC. From 1994 he was Deputy Ambassador to the American Embassy in Bonn . From June 17, 1996 to September 10, 1997 he headed the Bonn US Embassy as Chargé d'affaires a. i. (chargé d'affaires).

Bindenagel then negotiated Germany's expanded membership in the NATO alliance. From 1999 he was involved in the negotiations on the international treaties on German forced laborers' compensation in the rank of ambassador . Bindenagel works in a large number of semi-public and private organizations and is a. Member of the Board of Directors of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship and the American Jewish Committee Berlin as well as member of the American Council on Germany , American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) and the German Society for Foreign Policy . As a lobbyist for DePaul University, he influences Chicago's local education policy .

In 2014, Bindenagel was appointed to the newly established Chair for International Relations and International Law at the University of Bonn . It is an endowed professorship in honor of the former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger , which is jointly financed by the Federal Department of Defense and the Federal Foreign Office . The professorship is controversial about its dedication to Henry Kissinger. In addition, Bindenagel's academic qualification for a professorship was questioned in the German press. In the summer semester 2020 he offered a seminar on current challenges in international law at the chair of Matthias Herdegen together with him and Ulrich Schlie at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . The contents of this seminar include the Paris Agreement and the Soleimani case .

Bindenagel received the State Department's Distinguished Service Award, the Great Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Presidential Meritorious Service Award.

Fonts (selection)

  • The German Experience. In: M. Cherif Bassiouni (Ed.): Pursuit of international criminal justice: a world study on conflicts, victimization and post-conflict justice Pursuit of International Criminal Justice: a World Study on Conflicts, Victimization and Post-conflict Justice. Intersentia, Antwerp 2010, pp. 709-733.
  • Memory, responsibility and the future. Fulfilling the promise of justice through decent payments. In: Dieter Stiefel : The political economy of the Holocaust: on the economic logic of persecution and "reparation". Publishing house for history and politics, Vienna 2001.
  • Afghanistan: The German Factor , in: Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) (Ed.): PRISM , Volume 1, Issue 4, 2010, pp. 95–112
  • (Mhrsg.): The German Remembrance Fund and the issue of forced and slave labor . Washington, DC: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2001
  • (Ed.): Proceedings. Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets. Nov. 30 - Dec. 3, 1998 . Washington, DC: GPO 1999
  • James Bindenagel, Matthias Herdegen , Karl Kaiser (eds.): International security in the 21st century: Germany's international responsibility. International Relations. Theory and History 13. V&R unipress , Bonn University Press 2016 ( Online ) (also called No. 1 of Contemporary Issues in International Security and Strategic Studies , ibid. 2017, Online )

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d James D. Bindenagel, Vita at European Forum Alpbach , 2001
  2. ↑ Otto Wolff Lecture: "German-American Relations: A Strong Partnership for a Safer 21st Century" ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Amerikahaus , North Rhine-Westphalia, November 12, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amerikahaus-nrw.de
  3. ↑ a b c J. D. Bindenagel. Senior Advisor to the President for International and Global Chicago Affairs ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at DePaul University  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.depaul.edu
  4. ↑ http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/DE/Infoservice/Presse/Mommunikations/2013/130526_Kissinger_Professur.html
  5. ↑ Willi Winkler : Deutschlands Bester , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 20, 2014, p. 3
  6. ↑ Oliver Fuchs, Hans-Martin Tillack: Embarrassing egg dance at the University of Bonn , Stern , July 23, 2014
  7. ↑ Seminar announcement on the Herdegen chair homepage. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
predecessor Office successor
Charles E. Redman US Ambassador to Germany
June 17, 1996 - September 10, 1997 		John Kornblum
personal data
SURNAME Bindenagel, James D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist and former diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Huron , South Dakota