Matin Baraki

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Matin Baraki (born March 6, 1947 in Schinah near Kabul, Afghanistan) is a German - Afghan political scientist and interpreter .

Life

After training as a precision mechanic, he studied pedagogy in Kabul and worked as a teacher. From 1970 to 1974 Baraki was a technical assistant at the Faculty of Science at Kabul University. In 1974 he went to the Federal Republic of Germany and received his doctorate in 1995 from the Philipps University of Marburg . He then took up teaching positions in international politics as a political scientist at the universities of Marburg, Giessen , Kassel and Münster . Baraki publishes on the Middle East and Central Asia in books, magazines and newspapers in Germany and Switzerland.

Baraki is one of the permanent authors of the monthly RotFuchs and writes for Aus Politik und Zeitgeschehen , the left-wing daily newspaper Junge Welt and the socialist weekly newspaper our zeit .

Publications

  • Relations between Afghanistan and the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1978: illustrated using the most important development projects of the Federal Republic of Afghanistan , Marburg 1995, ISBN 3631481799
  • Battlefield Near and Middle East , Distel-Verlag, 2004 ISBN 3929348365
  • German policy on Afghanistan from the Empire to the Berlin Republic , in: Inamo , Berlin, vol. 5, 1999, no. 17, pp. 25–29.
  • The Talibanization of Afghanistan , in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik , Bonn, vol. 46, 2001, issue 11, pp. 1342–1352.
  • Islamism and Great Power Politics in Afghanistan , in: From Politics and Contemporary History: Supplement to the weekly newspaper " Das Parlament ", Bonn, B 8/2002 of February 22, 2002, pp. 32–38.
  • Military “conflict resolution” instead of intelligent peace policy: the example of Afghanistan , in: Amy Holmes (Ed.): Imperial Jihad? , Hamburg 2002, pp. 133–155.
  • King Zahir's golden age , in: Die Zeit, Hamburg, vol. 57, 2002, No. 19 of May 2, 2002, p. 84
  • An example of a lack of transparency of interests: the contradiction of 'Western' interests using the example of the Afghanistan conflict , in: Reiner Albert (Ed.): In the shadow of politics: Influences on Christian-Islamic conversation . Altenberge 2002, pp. 97-137.
  • On the position of women in the patriarchal society of Afghanistan , in: Interkulturell und global, Freiburg i. Br., Jg. 2002, H. 3/4 [published 2003], pp. 127-144.
  • A review can only be useful: Ten theses for a sustainable development policy in Afghanistan , in: EPD-Entwicklungspolitik, Frankfurt / M., Year 2003, issue 23/24 (December), pp. 60–61.
  • Afghanistan after the Taliban , in: From Politics and Contemporary History: Supplement to the weekly newspaper Das Parlament, Bonn, B 48/2004 of November 22, 2004, pp. 24–30.
  • The US strategy for the Middle East and Caucasus regions in the unipolar world order , in: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (Ed.): From cold energy strategies to hot raw material wars. Vienna and Berlin 2008, pp. 133–148.
  • An 18-point proposal for Afghanistan: concrete alternatives to war , in: Pax Zeit, Berlin, No. 4/2011 (December), pp. 10-11.
  • Disappointed hopes or a perspective for Afghanistan? , in: Henken, Lühr (Ed.): Tensions, Armament, War - and No End ?, Kassel 2017, pp. 206–217.

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personal data
SURNAME Baraki, Matin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Afghan political scientist and interpreter
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Shinah near Kabul