Klaus Dieter Wolf

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Klaus Dieter Wolf (born January 18, 1953 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German political scientist .

Life

After completing his studies at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Nottingham and Tübingen , he passed the academic examination for teaching at grammar schools in the subjects of political science and English at the University of Tübingen in 1978 . From 1978 to 1980 he worked for the "Institute for Training and Research" of the United Nations in New York and Geneva and took part in, among other things, the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. In 1981 he received his doctorate in political science at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Tübingen and worked for the next eight years as a research assistant, since 1984 as a university assistant at the Institute for Political Science there.

In 1989 he moved to the Institute for Political Science at the University of Stuttgart as a research assistant . Immediately after his habilitation (Tübingen 1991) he took on a substitute professorship at the University of Konstanz , before accepting the chair for international relations at the Institute for Political Science at the TU Darmstadt the following year. Here he worked as a university lecturer until his retirement. Since 2005 he has also worked as a research group leader, deputy director and later as director of the Leibniz Institute Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research (PRIF) (program area Private Actors in Transnational Space). Klaus Dieter Wolf was chairman of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW) from 2003 to 2006 and is the founding editor of the Journal for International Relations (ZIB) . Since 2007 he has been involved as Principal Investigator and member of the Board of Directors of the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence . From 2013 to 2016 he headed the Leibniz research association “Crises in a Globalized World”.

Research priorities

Selected publications

  • Resistance and Change in World Politics. International Dissidence (Ed. Together with Svenja Gertheiss, Stefanie Herr and Carmen Wunderlich), Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
  • The UN. History, tasks, perspectives , Munich: Beck, 3rd edition 2016.
  • The Transnational Governance of Violence and Crime. Non-State Actors in Security (Ed. Together with Anja P. Jakobi), Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
  • Corporate Security Responsibility? (Ed. Together with Nicole Deitelhoff), Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010.
  • Education in Political Science (with Anja P. Jakobi and Kerstin Martens), London: Routledge, 2010.
  • The Role of Business in Global Governance (with Annegret Flohr, Lothar RIeth and Sandra Schwindenhammer), Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010.
  • Power and powerlessness of international institutions (Ed. Together with Andreas Hasenclever and Michael Zürn), Frankfurt / New York: Campus, 2007.
  • The new international relations. Research status and perspectives in Germany (Ed. Together with Gunther Hellmann and Michael Zürn ), Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2003.
  • Socialization of governance? The change in national and international political control under the guiding principle of sustainable development (with Lars Brozus and Ingo Take), Opladen: Leske and Budrich, 2003.
  • Civilizing World Politics. Society and Community beyond the State (eds., Together with Mathias Albert and Lothar Brock), Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
  • The new reason of state. Intergovernmental cooperation as a problem of democracy in global society , Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Klaus Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main