Robert Kappel

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Robert Kappel (* 1946 in Kleinwaabs ) is a German economist .

Life

Robert Kappel studied economics and sociology at the University of Freiburg from 1969 to 1973 . In 1980 he received his doctorate from the University of Bremen with an economic history thesis on Liberia . From 1981 to 1989 he worked as a scientist at the Institute for Shipping Economics and Logistics , Bremen, and from 1989 to 1996 as a scientist at the University of Bremen, where he taught in the "Third World" and " Small Enterprise Promotion and Training Program " postgraduate courses . He completed his habilitation in 1995 with a thesis on New Economic Geography. From 1996 to 2004 Robert Kappel was Professor at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Leipzig , from 2004 to 2011 he was President of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies , Leibniz Institute for Global and Regional Studies (GIGA) and Professor at the Universities of Hamburg and Leipzig. Since 2011 he has been President Emeritus of the GIGA in Hamburg and Prof. em of the University of Leipzig.

Services

Kappel's scientific work can be divided into four periods:

  1. Work on transport-related topics, in particular shipping,
  2. Work on the past and present of economics and politics in African countries, especially in connection with the publication of the African Development Perspectives Yearbook ,
  3. general development economics topics, in particular the role of innovative small and medium-sized companies in the development process,
  4. Work on global economic and global political issues.

Through his numerous publications and lectures, Robert Kappel significantly influenced development economics and development policy in Germany. As President of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies , Leibniz Institute for Global and Regional Studies, he was responsible for its content and organizational realignment and development into an internationally recognized research institute for global issues.

Kappel holds several honorary scientific posts, including as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Überseemuseum Bremen, as a member of the Presidium and spokesman for the social science institutes of the Leibniz Association (2007–2009), as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Center for East Asian Studies of Johann Wolfgang Goethe -Universität Frankfurt (since 2011) and as a member of the board of the Development and Peace Foundation (SEF) (from 2012 to 2015).

Fonts

Monographs and specialist articles

  • On the crisis and the perspective of shipbuilding in the Federal Republic (PDF; 171 kB)
  • Economy, classes and the state in Liberia: Development of social contradictions in peripheral capitalism during the 19th and 20th centuries 20th century , Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt / Main 1982 (partly also dissertation University of Bremen 1982), ISBN 3-88129-537-2
  • The Descent of Europe and the United States - Shifts in the World Economy and Politics , GIGA Focus Global, No. 1/2011, Hamburg: GIGA (PDF; 915 kB)
  • Global Power Shifts and Germany's New Foreign Policy Agenda, in: Strategic Analysis , 38, 3, 2014: 341-352
  • With Esther Ishengoma, Business Environment and Growth Potential of Micro and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Uganda, African Development Review , 23, 3, 2011: 352-365
  • With Cord Jakobeit and Ulrich Mückenberger, civilizing the world order. Norm formation through transnational networks, Leviathan , 3, 2010: 411-427
  • With Jann Lay and Susan Steiner, Uganda: No more pro-poor growth ?, Development Policy Review , 23, 1, 2005: 27-54
  • Breaking the boundaries of the (Post) Washington Consensus. Poverty Reduction and Employment through Structural Competitiveness, Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 19, 2, 2003: 42-55.
  • Europe and Africa, Africa Contemporary Records , New York 2000: A150-158.
  • The chaos of Africa and the opportunities for endogenous development, prokla. Journal for Critical Social Science 29, 4, 1999: 517-534.
  • With Werner Korte, Crisis and intervention: How ECOMOG brought about peace in Liberia, but was still unable to guarantee a democratic new beginning, Liberian Studies Journal 25, 2, 2000: 83-105.
  • Reasons for the weak growth in Africa, Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 16, 2, 2000: 129-148.
  • The Persistent Underdevelopment of Africa, in International Politics and Society 1, 1999: 38-55.
  • Informality as normal. Notes on a neglected topic, in Comparativ 6, 4, 1996: 97-119.
  • Core and edge in the global order - globalization, tripolarity, territory and peripheralization, in Peripherie 15, 59/60, 1995: 79-117.
  • Cherries and stones. Which developing countries are winners and which losers in the world market? In Peripherie 23, 90/91, 1991: 232-262.

Editing

  • World Economy and Poverty , Deutsches Überseeinstitut, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-926953-39-X
  • Utz Dornberger / Robert Kappel / Ute Rietdorf (eds.): Small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries: the challenges of globalization , Deutsches Überseeinstitut, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-926953-58-6
  • Robert Kappel / Ulf Engel (ed.): Germany's Africa policy revisited: interests, images and incrementalism , Lit-Verlag, Münster 2006 (2nd ed.), ISBN 3-8258-5985-1
  • African Development Perspectives Yearbook . Lit-Verlag, Münster and Berlin since 1989, ISBN 3-923024-29-0 .
  • Basedau, Matthias / Kappel, Robert (eds.) (2011), Source of Power Petroleum - The Foreign, Domestic and Economic Policy of Petroleum States, Baden-Baden: Nomos.
  • Jakobeit, Cord / Robert Kappel and Ulrich Mückenberger (2018), Transnational Norms Networking, Baden-Baden: Nomos

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of Robert Kappel
  2. ^ Homepage of Robert Kappel
personal data
SURNAME Kappel, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinwaabs