Sven Bernhard Gareis

Sven Bernhard Gareis (born March 7, 1962 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German political scientist and currently German Deputy Dean at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and honorary professor at the Institute for Political Science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Munster .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1981 in Tutzing near Munich, Gareis joined the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate in 1981 and studied pedagogy, political science and sociology at the University of the German Armed Forces in Munich . He graduated in 1987 and received his doctorate from Wolfgang Royl in 1989 with the didactics of encounter. For the organization of historical learning processes in the Dachau learning location for Dr. phil. ( magna cum laude ) doctorate . Until his retirement from the Bundeswehr in 1994, Gareis was employed as platoon leader , company commander and course director of the telecommunications school of the army .

From 1994 to 2000 Gareis worked as a research assistant and head of the security policy department at the Bundeswehr Academy for Information and Communication (AIK) in Strausberg, after which he was project manager at the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr (SOWI) until 2006 . In 2006 he moved to the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy (FüAkBw) in Hamburg as Chief Scientific Director in the Human and Social Sciences Department. Gareis has been the German Deputy Dean at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (GCMC) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen since 2011. His main research interests are in the areas of international politics , German and European foreign and security policy, the United Nations and foreign relations of the People's Republic of China .

Since 2007, Gareis has been an honorary professor at the Institute for Political Science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He previously taught at the Technical University of Berlin , at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin and the University of Hamburg and as visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2007, 2009) and the Tamkang University Taipei (2010).

Gareis is colonel of the reserve . He has been doing military training as a reserve attaché since 1998 at the military attaché staffs of the German embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Ottawa and Beijing. In 2002 he attended the National Defense University of the People's Republic of China . From 2004 to 2008 he was a member of the Conseil Scientifique at the Center d`Etudes en Sciences Sociales de la Défense in Paris.

Encounter didactics. For the organization of historical learning processes in the Dachau learning location (= European university publications . Series 11. Pedagogy . Vol. 410). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-631-42272-5 .
with Johannes Varwick : The United Nations. Tasks, instruments and reforms (= UTB . 2243). Leske and Budrich (UTB), Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8252-2243-8 . (5th edition 2014; English 2nd edition 2012)
with Ulrich vom Hagen: Military cultures and multinationality. The Multinational Corps Northeast in Stettin (= series of publications of the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr . Vol. 1). Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4010-X .
Germany's foreign and security policy. An introduction . Budrich, Opladen 2005, ISBN 3-938094-16-8 . (2nd edition 2006)

with Rolf Zimmermann: Security Policy Communication (= publications of the Bundeswehr Academy for Information and Communication . Vol. 22). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6012-7 .
with Paul Klein : Handbook of the military and social science . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14446-4 . (2nd edition 2006)
with Nina Leonhard : Marching together. Franco-German armed forces cooperation as a paradigm for European armed forces? (= Series of publications by the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr . Vol. 5). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15715-3 .
with Gunter Geiger : International protection of human rights. Status and perspectives in the 21st century . Budrich, Opladen u. a. 2009, ISBN 3-86649-186-7 .
with Stephan Böckenförde: German Security Policy. Challenges, actors and processes (= UTB . 8388). Budrich (UTB), Opladen u. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-8388-9 . (2nd edition 2014)
with Hans-Georg Erhart, Charles Pentland: Afghanistan in the Balance. Counterinsurgency, Comprehensive Approach, and Political Order (= Queen's Policy Studies Series ). McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston 2012, ISBN 978-1-55339-353-5 .
with Gunther Hauser , Franz Kernic : The European Union - A Global Actor? . Opladen, Berlin a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-8474-0040-0 .