Kurt Tudyka

Kurt P. Tudyka (born April 14, 1935 in Zawadzkie , Upper Silesia ) is a German political scientist and peace researcher . Since 1972 he has been professor of political science and international relations at the University of Nijmegen (since 1992 as emeritus ).

biography

After training and working in an electronics company, Tudyka studied theater, economics and political science in Cologne, Erlangen and Boulder / USA. He did a traineeship with the Nürnberger Nachrichten and then worked from 1960 to 1962 as a full-time supervisor for foreign students at the International Office of the University of Erlangen . His dissertation on the monetary and credit policy of the Bundesbank (1964), supervised by Prof. R. Stucken, and his habilitation thesis on foreign trade policy in the Adenauer era (1969) already indicated his research interest in the relationship between socio-economic institutions and international politics. Until 1971, he worked as a research assistant to Waldemar Besson and as a scientific adviser at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . After a one-year research stay at Harvard University / USA , Tudyka accepted a professorship in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Nijmegen / Netherlands in 1972 , to which he has been an emeritus since 1992. There he was from 1974 to 1977 and 1981 to 1983 chairman of the "Instituut voor Politicologie" and from 1972 to 1983 chairman of the "Centrum voor Polemologie". In 1993 he was made an honorary professorship at the University of Osnabrück . He has taught as a visiting professor and lecturer at several universities (including Mainz, FU Berlin, Münster, Essen, Hamburg, Vienna, Newark / USA, Wrocław, Lublin, Arborg, Venice / Padua, Klagenfurt). In 1988 he was a founding member of the European University Center for Peace Studies , Stadtschlaining / Austria, and a board member until 1992 , and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg from 1994 to 2014 . From 1972 to 1976 he was chairman of the working group for peace and conflict research and from 1971 to 1976 a member of the advisory board of the German Association for Political Science , whose working group "Pan-European Policy of Cooperation" he initiated and led. He headed the Study Group on the International Division of Labor of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) from 1976 to 1980; since 1992 he has been a member of the Association of German Scientists (VDW). He was co-founder and co-editor of the yearbook "Weltpolitik" 1981 to 1983 and editor-in-chief of the OSCE yearbook (Yearbook on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) from 1995 to 2000, which he created together with Dieter Lutz Tudyka worked on the internationalization of “wage labor and capital” in cross-border empirical research projects, which institutionally expressed itself in the conflicting relations of the trade unions to the multinational corporations. These contradiction analyzes aroused his interest in the conflict-regulating and peace-building function of international organizations. Moreover, they carry the appeal to reason as a utopian blueprint for an alternative world that contradicts national rule based only on tradition and their unlimited monopoly of force and their asserted sovereignty on the arbitrarily parceled earth as well as the hegemony of a global power. The reason Tudyka invokes here points to the conditions, structures and processes for a world that is peaceful in the broadest sense. Therefore, since the 1980s he has devoted himself particularly to critical peace research and continuous studies on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Tudyka has lived in Bonn since 2001 and was chairman of the Friends of the Kammerspiele there from 2006 to 2016 . From 2006 to 2007 he was curator of the series “Utopias Tuesday” at the Theater Bonn, which presented politically different aspects of the utopia discourse in films, literature and science through actors and utopia researchers.

Publications (selection)

• Partitions, Frankfurt / Hamburg, 1969
• International Relations, Stuttgart 1971
• Critical Political Science, Stuttgart 1973
• Power without limits and limitless powerlessness. Employee awareness and the conditions of trade union counter-strategies in multinational corporations, Frankfurt 1978
• Conflicthaarden in de Derde Wereld. Geschillen over Grenzen, Nijmegen 1984
• "World Society" - Un Term and Phantom, Hamburg 1989
• Onze Nieuwe Wereldorde tussen Internationalisering, Europeisering en Renationalisering, Nijmegen 1992
• The worldwide struggle for work, Hamburg 1994
  • Libertas Bataviae - model Netherlands? Munster 1998
• About intellectuals in opera - On the power of heads, Hofgeismar / Vienna 2000
• Hegemony and Globocracy. The dispute over the direction of global governance between Europe and the USA, Baden-Baden 2002/2003
• The OSCE - Concerned for Europe's Security. Cooperation instead of confrontation, Hamburg 2007
• Is another world possible? Utopian heckling, Hamburg 2010
• Friends of the Kammerspiele for five years, Bonn 2011
• The division of the earth. Limits of Globalization - Globalization of Borders, Hamburg 2015
• Friends of the chamber games. A civic engagement, Bonn 2016
• Curtain up - Schauspieldirektorium Theater Bonn 2013 - 2018, Bonn 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Friends of the Kammerspiele"

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Tudyka in the catalog of the German National Library
• Association of German Scientists
• German Association for Political Science
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)