Siegmar Schmidt

Siegmar Schmidt (* 1961 in Arnsberg ) is a German political scientist and university professor.

Life

Schmidt studied political science at the University of Munich , graduated in 1987 and was there in 1992 on the role of the black trade union movement in the democratization process in South Africa doctorate . In 1998 he completed his habilitation at the University of Trier . In 1998/99 he was a representative of a professorship at the University of Mainz . Since 1999 he has been Professor of Political Science at the University of Koblenz-Landau and since 2017 Head of the Political Science Department at the University's Institute for Social Science. There he is professor for “Analysis and Comparison of Political Systems and International Politics”. He is also the scientific director of the Frank Loeb Institute.

His main research interests are German foreign policy, the foreign policy of Western countries, comparison and analysis of political systems, European integration and foreign policy, the Third World and Africa. Numerous research trips took him to the USA and African countries.

Publications (selection)

• Unions in South Africa. Worker emancipation under the conditions of the apartheid regime , isp-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 978-3-88332-155-4

• with Wolf J. Schünemann: European Union. An introduction . Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2009, 2nd edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-8252-3944-2
• with Sebastian Harnisch : at eye level. 50 years of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (1961–2011). Edited by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development , Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8329-7244-8
• as ed. with Gunther Hellmann , Reinhard Wolf : Handbuch zur deutschen Außenpolitik . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, (1st edition 2007), Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-19883-5
• as editor: amnesia, amnesty or work-up? On dealing with authoritarian pasts and human rights violations. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-13868-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegmar Schmidt in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Literature by and about Siegmar Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Siegmar Schmidt - University of Koblenz · Landau. Retrieved January 23, 2020 . 
2. ^ Schmidt, Siegmar. Retrieved January 24, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} University of Koblenz-Landau: Prof. Dr. Siegmar Schmidt, Scientific Director. Retrieved January 23, 2020 . 
4. ^ German Association for Political Science: Schmidt, Siegmar. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .