Manfred Knapp (political scientist)

Manfred Knapp (born April 14, 1939 in Viernheim ) is a German political scientist.

Life

Knapp studied mathematics, physics and social sciences at the Technical University of Darmstadt , at the Philipps University of Marburg and at Harvard University . In 1966 he passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools. In 1971 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1978 he completed his habilitation in political science with a focus on international relations in Frankfurt am Main. In 1980 he was appointed professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he had been a lecturer since 1972. In 1981 he followed a call to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and in 1983 a call to the professorship for political science, especially international relations, at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg (today Helmut Schmidt University ). In 2004 he retired.

Teaching and research focus are the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, world politics of the USA, American-European relations, the role of international organizations, especially the United Nations.

Fonts

• The US information service as an instrument of American foreign policy during John F. Kennedy's presidency , dissertation, University of Marburg 1971.
• Connections between the FRG's Ostpolitik and German-American relations , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1974.
• German-American Relations after 1945 , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1975, ISBN 3593321467 .
• The USA and Germany: 1918-1975: German-American. Relationships between rivalry and Partnership , Beck, Munich 1978, ISBN 3406067778 .
• together with Gert Krell (editor): Introduction to international politics: study book , Oldenbourg, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3486259687 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Knapp in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Manfred Knapp, Gert Krell: Introduction to International Politics: Study Book , Oldenbourg 2003