Stephan Bierling

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Stephan Bierling (left) at the 50th Munich Security Conference

Stephan Georg Bierling (born March 27, 1962 in Oberammergau ) is a German political scientist . He has been a professor of international politics at the University of Regensburg since 2000 and heads the professorship for international politics and transatlantic relations.

Live and act

Bierling studied political science and history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where he received his doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences in 1992 with “summa cum laude” and qualified as a professor in 1996. From 1989 to 1996 he was a research assistant and from 1996 to 1999 private lecturer at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science in Munich. In 1999/2000 he was a professor of political science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Stephan Bierling also held visiting professorships at universities in South Africa (Fort Hare University, 1998), Israel (Hebrew University / Jerusalem, 1999), the USA (Austin College / Texas, University of California / San Diego, 2003) and Australia (University of Newcastle , 2014) true. In 2001 he was a German Marshall Fund Fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He was an observer at the Munich Security Conference and a member of the Bergedorf Round Table of former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker . In 2006, 2007 and 2009 Bierling made lecture tours to more than 20 universities and research institutions in China and Chile.

Since 2000 he has held the professorship for International Politics and Transatlantic Relations at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Regensburg. In 2007/2008 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty III, from 2008 to 2010 he was Vice-Rector for Studies and Teaching at the University of Regensburg. In the context of academic self-administration, Bierling was also managing director of the Institute for Political Science, a member of the department council and head of appointment committees. In addition to his work as a professor, he has been the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung's liaison professor for the University and OTH Regensburg since 2009 . From 1986 to 1990 Bierling himself received a scholarship from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS). He has been a member of the KAS PhD program on Security and Development since 2017 .

In teaching, Bierling places particular emphasis on international and practical training and courses in English. Every year since 1989 he has organized a two-week summer school in Washington, DC on American foreign policy for his students and, since 2005, he has participated in the world's largest simulation conference, the National Model United Nations in New York. In addition, since 2000 he has organized international, multi-day conferences at the University of Regensburg together with the Hanns Seidel Foundation . In 2016 he was a reviewer for the NSA committee of inquiry of the German Bundestag.

Bierling's main research interests are transatlantic relations, domestic and economic policy in the USA, American and German foreign policy and questions of international economics.

Bierling has received several awards for his work. In 1996 he received the Ludwig-Erhard-Förderpreis for business journalism. In 2003 he received the Bavarian State Prize for Good Teaching. In the election of “Professor of the Year” by UNICUM BERUF magazine , Bierling took second place in Germany in 2008 and 2010, and in 2013 he made it to first place and was thus named “Professor of the Year” in the humanities, cultural and social sciences category elected.

Stephan Bierling is a staunch supporter of tuition fees. In several interviews, he spoke out in favor of keeping them in Bavaria. In an interview he gave to the English newspaper Times Higher Education , he explained that the majority of German society rejects tuition fees because they consider social equality to be more important than freedom and achievement. Politicians would also represent this attitude for reasons of election tactics.

As an analyst of US domestic, economic and foreign policy, he is often in German and international newspapers (including Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit , Die Welt , International Herald Tribune , Handelsblatt ) as well as on radio and Represented on television (including Bavarian radio , Swiss radio DRS , Austrian radio ). In 2015 he was a TV commentator for the Munich Security Conference . Bierling is a popular speaker.

Awards

  • Ludwig Erhard Award for Business Journalism (1996)
  • Prize for good teaching from the Free State of Bavaria (2003)
  • Second place in the election of "Professor of the Year" by the UNICUM BERUF magazine in the humanities, cultural and social sciences category (2008 and 2010)
  • First place in the election of "Professor of the Year" by the UNICUM BERUF magazine in the humanities, cultural and social sciences category (2013)

Publications (selection)

Bierling's main areas of work are German and American foreign policy and the transatlantic relationship. He published monographs and more than four dozen essays. Recently he published:

  • Bierling, Stephan: America First. Donald Trump in the White House. A balance sheet , CH Beck, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-406-75706-8
  • Bierling, Stephan: Nelson Mandela. Rebel, prisoner, president, Munich: CH Beck, 2018.
  • Bierling, Stephan: Reluctant power. German foreign policy from reunification to the present , Munich: CH Beck, 2014.
  • Bierling, Stephan: Nelson Mandela , Munich: CH Beck, 2012.
  • Bierling, Stephan / Steiler, Ilona: The German American policy . In: Thomas Jäger u. a. (Ed.): German Foreign Policy , Wiesbaden 2011, pp. 630–647.
  • Bierling, Stephan: History of the Iraq War , Munich: CH Beck, 2010.
  • Bierling, Stephan / Groitl, Gerlinde: The EU and the USA . In: Werner Weidenfeld / Wolfgang Wessels (ed.): Yearbook of European Integration 2009 , Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2010, pp. 289–294.
  • Bierling, Stephan / Strobel, Christian: German foreign and security policy since reunification . In: Manuela Glaab / Werner Weidenfeld / Michael Weigl (eds.): German contrasts. A handbook 1990–2010 , Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2010, pp. 137–170.
  • Bierling, Stephan: History of American Foreign Policy from 1917 to the Present , Munich: CH Beck, 3rd edition 2007.
  • Bierling, Stephan: The piggyback strategy. Europe must harness the US. A point of view by Stephan Bierling , Hamburg: edition Körber Foundation, 2007.
  • Bierling, Stephan: A Little History of California , Munich: CH Beck, 2006.

Web links

Commons : Stephan Bierling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 17th edition (1996). Vol. 1, p. 236.
  2. ↑ Professors of the college "Security and Development in the 21st Century"
  3. ↑ http://www.mittelbayerische.de/nachrichten/hochschule/artikel/bierling-ist-professor-des-jahres/983807/bierling-ist-professor-des-jahres.html
  4. ^ German leaders, not students, reject charges
personal data
SURNAME Bierling, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bierling, Stephan Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberammergau