Monika Medick-Krakow

Monika Medick-Krakau (born May 23, 1946 in Hamburg ; † April 1, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German political scientist with a focus on international relations .

Life

Between 1966 and 1973, Medick-Krakau studied political science, history and sociology at the Philipps University in Marburg , the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

After completing her studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research in Frankfurt am Main until 1975 and then until 1979 at the Chair of International Relations at the University of Trier . From 1979 to 1981 Medick-Krakau was employed as a university assistant at the Free University of Berlin . This was followed by a two-year research stay in the USA as part of a post-doctoral fellowship. Between 1983 and 1989 Medick-Krakau worked at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin. She then worked as a research coordinator of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University Berlin before settling in 1992 habilitated .

From 1992 to 1993, Medick-Krakau was the professor for international relations at the University of Konstanz . In autumn 1993 she was appointed professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Leipzig . There Medick-Krakau held the chair for international economic relations for three semesters until she accepted a professorship for international relations at the Technical University of Dresden in April 1995 . There she founded the Center for International Studies in 2002 and was its director until 2008. In addition, Medick-Kraków was Vice-Rector for Education between 2001 and 2006 . She had been in early retirement since the 2010 summer semester .

Medick-Krakau was a member of the European Integration Working Group , the German Society for American Studies , the German Society for Political Science , the German Association for Political Science and the German Studies Association.

On April 1, 2011, Medick-Krakau died after a long and serious illness. Her final resting place is in the Lichterfelde cemetery in Berlin. She was married to Knud Krakau , their marriage had a son.

Works

Monographs

• United States Arms Exports and Foreign Policy. Social interests and political decisions. Verlag Anton Hain, Meisenheim 1976, ISBN 3-445-01395-0 .
• Administration and Congress on American Foreign Policy in the Eisenhower Era. The examples of foreign trade policy and alliance policy. John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Berlin 1986 ( PDF; 513 kB ).
• American Foreign Trade Policy in Transition. Trade legislation and GATT policy 1945–1988. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-050-02491-7 .

Editorships

• Foreign policy change from a theoretical and comparative perspective. The USA and the Federal Republic of Germany. Ernst-Otto Czempiel on his 70th birthday. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-789-06230-8 .

literature

• Alexander Brand, Stefan Robel (Ed.): International Relations. Current research fields, knowledge organization and professional orientation. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Monika Medick-Krakau. TUDpress, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-940046-71-0 .
• Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 608.

Web links

• Literature by and about Monika Medick-Krakau in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary for Monika Medick-Krakau (PDF; 4.0 MB). In: Newsletter of the German Association for Political Science. No. 146/2012, accessed on May 21, 2012.
2. ^ Hermann Kokenge: Obituary for Prof. Monika Medick-Krakau (PDF; 2.4 MB). In: Dresdner UniversitätsJournal . No. 8/2011, May 3, 2011, p. 11.