Johannes Varwick

Johannes Varwick (2014)

Johannes Varwick (born February 28, 1968 in Aschaffenburg ) is a German political scientist . Since 2013 he has held the chair for international relations and European politics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and president of the Society for Security Policy .

Life

Johannes Varwick studied political science, law and economic policy in Münster and Leeds . From 1995 to 1998 he completed a doctoral degree (subject: Security and Integration in Europe ) with Wichard Woyke at the Institute for Political Science of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster as a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

In the following years he was a fellow at the NRW Science Center of the Cultural Studies Institute in Essen (KWI) and head of the European security policy department at the Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) in Berlin. In 2000 he was a fellow of the Dräger Foundation in Chicago. From 2000 to 2003 he was a research assistant for international politics at the Institute for International Politics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . In 2003 he was a fellow at the State Department in Washington, DC From 2003 to 2009, Varwick was junior professor for political science with a focus on European integration and international organizations at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In September / October 2009 he held the Theodor Heuss Chair at the Department of International Studies of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City. From 2009 to 2013 he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Since March 2013 he has been Professor of International Relations and European Politics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . In Halle he is the Liaison Lecturer of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .

In May 2019, Varwick was elected President of the Society for Security Policy to succeed Ulrike Merten .

Varwick is married to the theologian Anja Middelbeck-Varwick and has four children.

Research priorities

He conducts research in the fields of international organizations (especially the United Nations, NATO and the EU), Europeanization , international security, German and European foreign policy and international regulatory policy and problems of multilateralism . He is particularly committed to political advice and political education. He has also made a name for himself through textbooks on political science, including those on the United Nations, NATO and fundamental questions in political science.

In spring 2015, Varwick founded the research group "Interdisciplinary Research Group on the Europeanization of Strategic Policies" (IRESP) at the University of Halle-Wittenberg . There projects are worked on, the thematic commonality of which is the Europeanization of strategic policy areas and topics. Varwick sees this as a complex interaction between the European and national level and examines not only the EU, but also other multilateral formats, e.g. B. European positioning in “ coalitions of the willing ” or European positioning in other club governance and multilateralism formats. Varwick represents an intergovernmental concept of politics in a more political science tradition.

Memberships and activities

Varwick is a reviewer for the German Peace Research Foundation , the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , the German Academic Exchange Service and the German National Academic Foundation . He also works as a reviewer for the specialist journals Sicherheit und Frieden , Politische Vierteljahresschrift and the journal for foreign and security policy (also on the Editorial Advisory Board).

From 2008 to 2011 he was a member of the Advisory Panel of the NATO Committee for Science for Peace and Security. Since 2009 he has been a member of the UN Political Advisory Council of the Federal Foreign Office . In 2014 he became a member of the Advisory Board of the Clausewitz Society . He has been Vice President of the Society for Security Policy since 2016 and a member of the Presidium of the German Society for the United Nations since 2017. Varwick advises various ministries, u. a. he was involved in the development of the “ White Paper on Security and the Future of the Bundeswehr” published in 2016 and regularly speaks to the public on security issues.

Varwick belongs u. a. the German Society for the United Nations , the German Society for Political Science , the German Atlantic Society and the German Society for Foreign Policy . From 2007 he was co-editor of the journal Politische Bildung, which appears from 2015 with a new concept under the name " Politikum ". He is also co-editor of several book series for Nomos Verlag (United Nations and Global Change) and Wochenschau-Verlag .

Positions

In an open letter to the AfD party , which received attention in various media , he responded to the establishment of "reporting portals" by the AfD, including in Saxony-Anhalt, the state in which Varwick teaches. In these online reporting portals, pupils and students of the AfD can report teachers who criticize the AfD in class. In the letter he sarcastically formulated the intention to “gladly relieve the AfD of this work” in the form of several “confessions”. Among other things, he wrote: "We confess that we did not treat the time of National Socialism as a little 'bird shit'", an allusion to a corresponding statement by AfD party chairman Alexander Gauland .

Fonts (selection)

• Security and Integration in Europe: On the Renaissance of the Western European Union . Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-2147-4 .
• with Wichard Woyke : The Future of NATO: Transatlantic Security in Transition . Opladen 2000 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-8100-2905-X .
• as ed. with Wilhelm Knelangen : New Europe - old EU? Questions about the European integration process . Opladen 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4127-0 .
• as editor: Relations between NATO and the EU. Partnership, competition, rivalry? Opladen 2005, ISBN 3-938094-10-9 .
• with Sven Bernhard Gareis : The United Nations . Basingstoke 2005, ISBN 1-4039-3540-8 .
• with Sven Bernhard Gareis: The United Nations: Tasks, Instruments and Reforms . Opladen 2014 (5th edition), ISBN 3-8252-8328-3 .
• as ed. with Andreas Zimmermann : The reform of the United Nations. Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-428-12266-6 .
• as publisher: European Neighborhood Policy. Opladen 2007, ISBN 3-86649-125-5 .
• NATO. From a defense alliance to a world police force? Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56809-1 .
• as publisher: Global environmental policy. An introduction. Schwalbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-89974-411-8 .
• as publisher: Security Policy. An introduction. Schwalbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-89974-481-1 .
• with Anton Pelinka : Fundamentals of Political Science. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2010 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-8385-2613-3 .
• as Ed .: The European Union. Crisis, reorientation, future prospects. Schwalbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-89974-728-7 .
• as publisher: Controversial topic of the energy transition. Sustainability, energy efficiency and economic aspects. Schwalbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-89974-928-1 .
• as ed. with Peter Massing : Government systems. An introduction. Schwalbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-89974-853-6 .
• as editor: War and Peace. An introduction to Schwalbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-7344-0023-0 .
• as editor: The United Nations. Challenges, opportunities and reform concepts. Selected essays by Helmut Volger. Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-1491-9 .
• as ed. with Hans-Jürgen Bieling , Peter Massing, Kerstin Pohl , Stefan Schieren : course book political science. Introduction, orientation, trends. Schwalbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-7344-0047-6 .
• as ed. with Wichard Woyke: Handwortbuch Internationale Politik . Opladen 2015 (13th edition), ISBN 978-3-8252-4518-4 .
• with Eberhard Eichenhofer , Jana Windwehr and Manuel Waschle : Europeanisation of old-age pension policy: up, down and interload processes between member states and the European level. Leverkusen 2016, ISBN 978-3847405108 .
• NATO in (dis) order. How transatlantic security is being renegotiated . Schwalbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-7344-0488-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Varwick in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Johannes Varwick  in the German Digital Library
• Search for Johannes Varwick in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Johannes Varwick at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• Website of Johannes Varwick

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Society for Security Policy with New Leadership | gsp-sipo.de. Retrieved on May 16, 2019 (German). 
2. ↑ Advisory Board , website of the Clausewitz Society, accessed on November 23, 2015.
3. ↑ http://www.gsp-sipo.de/general/vorstand.htm
4. ↑ http://politikum.org/
5. ↑ http://www.nomos-shop.de/reihenpopup.aspx?reihe=303
6. ↑ http://www.wochenschau-verlag.de/attributeindexer/list/product/index_ids/72761/
7. ↑ AfD starts reporting portal in Saxony-Anhalt. In: Volksstimme . November 8, 2018, accessed November 25, 2018 . 
8. ↑ With this confession, a professor defends himself against the AfD. In: Bento . November 25, 2018. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .