Volker Perthes

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Volker Perthes

Volker Perthes (born May 16, 1958 in Duisburg - Homberg ) is a German political scientist and has been director of the Science and Politics Foundation (SWP) since 2005 .

Life

After studying political science at the University of Duisburg , Perthes received a graduate scholarship from the DAAD , with which he carried out research in Damascus from 1986 to 1987 . In 1990 he received his doctorate in Duisburg. From 1991 to 1993 he was assistant professor at the American University of Beirut and then taught at the universities of Duisburg, Münster and Munich . In 1999 he completed his habilitation.

Since 1992 Volker Perthes has been working for the Science and Politics Foundation (SWP) - the German Institute for International Politics and Security - in Berlin (formerly Ebenhausen). The main task of the SWP is to advise the German Bundestag and the Federal Government on all questions of foreign and security policy on the basis of its own, practice-oriented research. Volker Perthes headed the Middle East and Africa Research Group until April 2005, has been Director of SWP since October 2005 and is expected to step down from this position in October 2020. He teaches as an adjunct professor at the Humboldt University and as an honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin .

In September 2015, Perthes was called in by the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura , to the UN talks for a peace process in Syria, initially as Assistant Secretary General / Senior Advisor to the UN Special Envoy. Since October 2016 he has headed the Cease Fire Task Force (CTF).

He is a much sought-after commentator in German and international media on German and European foreign policy, international relations and geopolitics as well as the Near and Middle East.

Memberships

Volker Perthes is a member of a number of scientific advisory boards, including the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), as chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), and the Robert Bosch International Advisory Council. He was also a member of the trilateral commission for a limited period until 2017.

Honors

Fonts

Monographs

  • State and society in Syria. 1970–1989 , dissertation, Duisburg 1990 (book publication in the series of writings of the German Orient Institute: Politics, Economy and Society of the Middle East , German Orient Institute, Hamburg 1990 ( ISBN 3-89173-017-9 )
  • Regional effects of the second Gulf War. Problems of Security and Cooperation in the Arab Region and the Options of European Politics , Interdependency No. 6, Development and Peace Foundation, Bonn 1991 ( ISBN 3-927626-13-9 )
  • Lebanon after the civil war. From Ta'if to social consensus? , Report number SWP S 385, Research Institute for International Politics and Security, Ebenhausen 1993 (in book form as Volume 34 in the series Current Materials on International Politics , Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994 ( ISBN 3-7890-3403-7 )
  • Economic Change, Political Control and Decision Making in Syria , report number SWP S 401, Science and Politics Foundation, Research Institute for International Politics and Security, Ebenhausen 1994
  • together with Muriel Asseburg : The European Union and the Palestinian Authority. Recommendations for a New Policy. Report number SWP S 421, Science and Politics Foundation, Research Institute for International Politics and Security, Ebenhausen 1998.
  • From war to competition. Regional politics and the search for a new Arab-Middle Eastern order , Volume 49 of the series International Politics and Security , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000 ( ISBN 3-7890-6712-1 )
  • Movement in the Middle East. International geopolitics and regional dynamics after the Iraq war , SWP Study S 2004,32, Science and Politics Foundation, German Institute for International Politics and Security, Berlin 2004
  • Oriental promenades. The near and middle east in transition , Siedler, Munich 2006 (most recently under this title at Pantheon, Munich 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-570-55034-2 )
  • Iran. A political challenge. The precarious balance of trust and security , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008 (also as volume 754 of the publication series of the Federal Agency for Political Education , Bonn 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-89331-930-5 )
  • The riot. The Arab Revolution and its Consequences , Pantheon, Munich 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-641-07134-9 )
  • The end of the Middle East as we know it. An essay . Berlin: Suhrkamp, ​​2015, ISBN 978-3-518-07442-8 .

Editorships

  • Scenarios for Syria. Socio-economic and Political Choices , Volume 45 of the series Current Materials on International Politics , Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998 ( ISBN 3-7890-5722-3 )
  • German Middle East Policy. Interests and options , Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach im Taunus 2001 ( ISBN 3-87920-068-8 )
  • Secret gardens. Die neue Arabische Welt , Siedler, Berlin 2002 (as volume 477 in the publication series of the Federal Agency for Political Education , Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-89331-591-8 )
  • Elite change in the Arab world and Iran , SWP Study S 2002,41, Science and Politics Foundation, German Institute for International Politics and Security, Berlin 2002
  • Germany and the Middle East. Interests and Options , Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin 2003 ( ISBN 3-927760-42-0 )
  • together with Stefan Mair: European foreign and security policy. Tasks and opportunities of the German Council Presidency , SWP Study S 2006,23, Science and Politics Foundation, German Institute for International Politics and Security, Berlin 2006

Web links

Commons : Volker Perthes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Volker Perthes. In: daad.de. German Academic Exchange Service, October 5, 2015, accessed on March 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://www.swp-berlin.org/de/wissenschaftler-detail/profile/volker_perthes.html
  3. ↑ 万户 网络: International Consultant. Retrieved November 27, 2017 (Chinese (China)).
  4. ^ Scientific Advisory Council - The Finnish institute of International Affairs. Archived from the original on November 9, 2015 ; Retrieved November 27, 2017 (American English).
  5. ↑ Bosch Annual Report 2016, https://assets.bosch.com/media/global/bosch_group/our_figures/pdf/bosch-geschaeftsbericht-2016.pdf
  6. ↑ https://www.baks.bund.de/de/aktuelles/verleihung-des-karl-carstens-preises-2009
personal data
SURNAME Perthes, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Homberg / Lower Rhine