Ulrich Menzel

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Ulrich Menzel (born July 21, 1947 in Düsseldorf ) is a German political scientist .

Life

Menzel attended the Humboldt Gymnasium in Düsseldorf until he graduated in 1967 . From 1969 to 1974 he studied political science , history , philosophy , sociology and German in Düsseldorf, Cologne and Frankfurt am Main . In 1978 he received his doctorate with Dieter Senghaas in Frankfurt with a dissertation on the theory and practice of the Chinese development model . In 1982 he completed his habilitation, also in Frankfurt, in political science with a thesis on auto-centered development despite world market integration .

After completing his doctorate, he taught and researched in Bremen , Tokyo , Frankfurt, Duisburg and Braunschweig , before being appointed to the chair for international relations and comparative government at the Institute for Social Sciences at the TU Braunschweig in 1993 as successor to Gilbert Ziebura . He was Dean (1995–1997) and Vice President for Teaching, Studies and Further Education (2001–2003). From 2004 until his retirement in 2015 he was managing director of the Institute for Social Sciences.

Menzel's teaching and research focuses on the theory and history of the international system , development theory and North-South relations , international political economy and peace and conflict research . His regional focus is on East and Southeast Asia (especially China and Japan ) and Europe. He is also active as an encyclopedist and author of bibliographies in printed and electronic form.

The hexagon of development

In the 1980s he formulated the theory of auto-centered development together with Dieter Senghaas . He attracted particular attention in the 1990s with his thesis of the failure of traditional development aid and the (conceptual) "end of the Third World" after the Cold War , which sparked a heated controversy in 1991/1992 with 19 articles in the Frankfurter Rundschau and various magazines .

In the course of his research on globalization, he provided a definition: Globalization is the intensification and acceleration of cross-border transactions while simultaneously expanding them spatially or, shorter, is the compression of space and time. On the occasion of the Corona crisis in 2020 , he predicted the possible end of globalization because the globalization discourse has become on the defensive.

In 2010, in the textbook Development Policy, written with Franz Nuscheler and Reinhard Stockmann , he formulated the hexagon of development from social participation, political stability, economic performance, social justice, ecological sustainability and cultural identity based on the civilizing hexagon by Dieter Senghaas.

His main work, The Order of the World, was published in 2015 after ten years of work.

In 2020, Menzel dedicated himself to the history of Braunschweig during the Third Reich. In The Stirrup Holders and Their Wages , he looks at the role played by the Free State of Braunschweig , in which the first coalition government between the NSDAP and bourgeois parties was formed in 1930 . In addition, the stateless Adolf Hitler received German citizenship in the Free State in 1932. The publisher of the book is the Braunschweigische Geschichtsverein . For the first time, Menzel thanks his daughter Marie Menzel in the book for the help with the design and assembly of illustrations, which she had already taken over at a few lectures before.

Awards

Fonts

  • with Dieter Senghaas (ed.): Multinational corporations and third world. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1976, ISBN 3-531-11361-5 .
  • Theory and Practice of the Chinese Development Model. A contribution to the concept of auto-centered development. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1978, ISBN 3-531-11451-4 .
  • Economy and Politics in Modern China. A social and economic history from 1842 until after Mao's death. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1978, ISBN 3-531-11460-3 .
  • with Gerd Wontroba: Stagnation and underdevelopment in Korea. From the Yi dynasty to peripheralization under Japanese colonial rule. Anton Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1978, ISBN 3-445-01822-7 .
  • In the succession of Europe. Car-centered development in the East Asian emerging markets of South Korea and Taiwan. Simon & Magiera, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-88676-101-0 .
  • with Dieter Senghaas : Europe's Development and the Third World. An inventory. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-518-11393-3 .
  • Ways out of addiction. The topicality of development policy in Europe. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-11312-7 .
  • (Ed.): In the shadow of the winner: Japan. 4 volumes, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1989, ISBN 3-518-11495-6 , ISBN 3-518-11496-4 , ISBN 3-518-11497-2 and ISBN 3-518-11498-0 .
  • (Ed.): Reflecting on China. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-11602-9 .
  • The end of the third world and the failure of the great theory. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-11718-1 .
  • History of evolutionary theory. Introduction and systematic bibliography. 3rd, revised edition. German Overseas Institute, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-926953-30-6 .
  • Shanghai. Systematic bibliography. With an introduction and an appendix on Yokohama. German Overseas Institute, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-922852-61-0 .
  • Globalization versus fragmentation. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-12022-0 .
  • with Katharina Varga: Theory and history of the doctrine of international relations. Deutsches Übersee-Institut, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-926953-44-6 ( online version , PDF, accessed on January 4, 2020).
  • with Mathias Albert and others: The New World Economy. Dematerialization and delimitation of the economy. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-11983-4 .
  • (Ed.): Of Eternal Peace and Prosperity of Nations. Dieter Senghaas on his 60th birthday. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-12173-1 .
  • Between idealism and realism. The doctrine of international relations. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-12224-X .
  • with Hartwig Hummel (Ed.): The ethnicization of international economic relations and the resulting conflicts. Lit, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8258-4836-1 .
  • New World Order Paradoxes. Political essays. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-12365-3 .
  • with Reinhard Stockmann and Franz Nuscheler: Development Policy. Theories-Problems-Strategies. Oldenbourg, Munich 2010. (2nd revised edition. 2016, ISBN 978-3-486-71874-4 )
  • The order of the world . Empire or hegemony in the hierarchy of the world of states . Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-42372-1 .
  • as editor: Willem Cha. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of university teaching sports at the TU Braunschweig. University Library Braunschweig 2016, ISBN 978-3-927115-77-4 .
  • The stirrup holders and their wages. Hitler's naturalization in Braunschweig set the course on the way to power and the modernization of the Braunschweig region. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2020; ISBN 978-3-944939-84-1 .

Essays

  • The process of differentiation in the Third World and its consequences for the North-South conflict. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 24. 1983, 1. pp. 31–59.
  • The end of the "Third World" and the failure of the great theory. On sociology with a self-critical intention. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 32.1991, 1. pp. 4–33.
  • The corona shock. The final disenchantment of globalization. In: Sheets for German and International Politics , Issue 4/2020. Pp. 37-44.

Indulgence

All previous publications (currently approx. 650), unpublished writings and other materials on Ulrich Menzel can be viewed in the archive of the TU Braunschweig under the shelf number G48 II. An inventory for the advance (as of February 2016) is available.

literature

  • Lars Mjøset: Comparative Typologies of Development Patterns: The Menzel / Senghaas Framework. In: Lars Mjøset (Ed.), Contributions to the Comparative Study of Development: Proceedings from Vilhelm Aubert Memorial Symposion 1990. Vol. 2., Oslo 1992. pp. 96-161. at: http://www.ulrich-menzel.de/ueber/Lars_Mjosets_long_paper
  • Development aid, trusteeship, neocolonialism. Documentation of the discussion about Ulrich Menzel's theses. Freiburg. Sheets of the iz3w 1991. 2nd edition 1992 (19 articles)
  • Gerald Heere: Ulrich Menzel - Works and Effects 1974–2005 (= research reports from the Institute for Social Sciences. No. 65). Braunschweig 2005, ISSN  0949-2267 . ( online PDF file; 637 kB)
  • Wolfgang Hein: Ulrich Menzel (* 1947). From the great theory to the differentiation of the world. In: Eins Development Policy. No. 21, 2006, pp. 61-63.
  • Hartwig Hummel, Bastian Loges (Hrsg.): Shapes of globalization. Festschrift for Ulrich Menzel. Budrich, Opladen 2009, ISBN 978-3-940755-29-2 .
  • Salomon, David: Hegemony. Imperiality. Imperialism. A comment on Ulrich Menzel . In: Erhard Crome / Raimund Krämer (eds.), Hegemony and Multipolarity. World orders in the 21st century . Potsdam: WeltTrends 2013. pp. 37–51.
  • Mehring, Reinhard: Good power! Ulrich Menzel on the orderly performance of the “great powers” . In: Georg Zenkert (Ed.), Die Macht der Demokratie. On the organization of the constitutional state . Baden-Baden: Nomos 2018. pp. 181–204.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Menzel's personal website
  2. ↑ Ulrich Menzel published an online personal encyclopedia for international relations
  3. ↑ Under the title "The Order of the World" there is a chronologically sorted sequence of images on the homepage of the personal website on historical events on which world orders were agreed
  4. ^ History of development theory. Introduction and systematic bibliography. 3rd, revised edition. German Overseas Institute, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-926953-30-6 .
  5. ↑ Shanghai. Systematic bibliography. With an introduction and an appendix on Yokohama. German Overseas Institute, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-922852-61-0 .
  6. ↑ with Katharina Varga: Theory and history of the doctrine of international relations. Deutsches Übersee-Institut, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-926953-44-6 ( online version , PDF).
  7. ^ Bibliographies by Ulrich Menzel
  8. ↑ Lars Mjøset: Comparative Typologies of Development Patterns: The Menzel / Senghaas Framework Online (accessed January 3, 2020)
  9. ↑ The end of the "Third World" and the failure of the great theory. On sociology with a self-critical intention. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 32.1991, 1, pp. 4–33.
  10. ↑ The End of the Third World and the Failure of the Great Theory. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-11718-1 .
  11. ↑ Development aid , trusteeship, neocolonialism. Documentation of the discussion about Ulrich Menzel's theses. Freiburg. Sheets of the iz3w 1991. 2nd edition 1992 (19 articles)
  12. ↑ Globalization versus Fragmentation, 1998
  13. ↑ The New World Economy, 1999
  14. ↑ Leaf podcast "The final disenchantment of globalization"
  15. ↑ The corona shock. The final disenchantment of globalization. In: Sheets for German and International Politics, Issue 4/2020. Pp. 37-44.
  16. ↑ Stockmann / Menzel / Nuscheler 2010, p. 14.
  17. ↑ The order of the world
  18. ↑ Jos Schnurer, review of June 22, 2015 to: Ulrich Menzel: The order of the world. Empire or hegemony in the hierarchy of the world of states. In: socialnet reviews, ISSN  2190-9245 , online (accessed April 12, 2018).
  19. ↑ The stirrup holders and their wages
  20. ^ The differentiation process in the Third World and its consequences for the North-South conflict. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 24. 1983, 1. pp. 31–59.
  21. ^ Prize of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for articles in the social sciences - winners 1981–2017
  22. ^ Members of the class for the humanities of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
personal data
SURNAME Menzel, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf