Niklas Schörnig

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Niklas Schörnig (* 1972 ) is a German political scientist.

Life

After studying political science ( MA ) and Economics ( Diplom ) in Frankfurt and Southampton doctorate he 2005 Dr. phil. at the Goethe University as a scholarship holder of the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research ( PRIF ) with a thesis on American arms industry policy in the 1990s. He previously spent two months as a visiting researcher at Cornell University in 2004 . Since 2005 he has been working in PRIF's program area I - Security and Global Governance of States - as a research assistant and project manager and was an elected member of the board from 2008 to 2009. In the winter semester 2011/12 he represented the professorship for International Relations and Theories of Global Governance. He was appointed to the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Theology and Peace in 2015.

His research interests are theories of international relations (in particular liberal theory of democratic peace), transformation of the military (revolution in military affairs, networked operations management, robotization of the armed forces), future of war (importance of state / non-state actors, increasing asymmetry, New Western Way of War), future of arms control (specifically arms control for military robots), and Australian foreign and security policy.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Harald Müller : "Revolution in military affairs". Farewell to the cooperative security policy of democracies? (= PRIF Report. Volume 2001.8). HSFK, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-933293-52-9 .
  • with Annette Jünemann : The security and defense policy of the "civil power Europe". A contradiction in terms? (= PRIF Report. Volume 2002, 13). HSFK, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-933293-72-3 .
  • with Harald Müller: Arms Dynamics and Arms Control. An exemplary introduction to international relations (= foreign policy and international order ). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1914-7 .
  • Well armed in theory? The American arms industry policy of the 1990s from an IB perspective (= International Relations. Volume 8). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 3-8329-3023-X (also dissertation, Frankfurt am Main 2005).
  • as editor with Jan Helmig : The Transformation of the Armed Forces in the 21st Century. Military and political dimensions of the current "Revolution in military affairs" (= studies by the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research. Volume 54). Campus-Verlag, New York / Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 3-593-38433-7 .
  • The roo and the dragon. Australia's foreign policy towards China during Rudd era (= PRIF reports. Volume 99). PRIF, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-942532-15-0 .
  • Robot warriors. Why the Western investment into military robots might backfire (= PRIF reports. Volume 100). PRIF, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-942532-16-7 .
  • as editor with Claudia Baumgart-Ochse , Simone Wisotzki and Jonas Wolff: On the way to Just Peace Governance. Contributions to the start of the new research program of PRIF (= Studies of the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research. NF. Volume 15). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 3-8329-7051-7 .

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SURNAME Schörnig, Niklas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972