Winfried Veit

Winfried Veit (born February 20, 1946 in Horgen near Rottweil ) is a German political scientist and journalist.

life and work

Winfried Veit attended high school in Schwenningen am Neckar. After graduating from high school, he volunteered for the daily newspaper "Badische Latest Nachrichten" in Karlsruhe. From 1967 he studied political science , economics and history at the Free University of Berlin . During his subsequent doctoral work he worked as an editor at RIAS Berlin and in the press office of the FU Berlin. In 1976 he became a member of Franz Ansprenger with his work “National Emancipation. Development Strategy and Foreign Policy in Tropical Africa ”.

From 1976 Veit worked for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) in international cooperation. In the 1980s he was responsible for research and advisory programs in Europe, Africa and the Middle East at Bonn headquarters, and in the early 1990s, shortly after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, he headed the "Eastern Europe and Central Asia" department. On numerous trips to the new states of the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, e.g. Together with the former SPD chairman Hans-Jochen Vogel , awareness of their problems and the resulting challenges for Germany and Europe grew. Abroad, Veit headed the FES offices in Senegal, South Africa, Israel, Paris and Geneva.

During his work for the FES, Veit published over 80 books, series and essays as well as numerous articles, columns and radio broadcasts. In addition to the political and social development in the respective “host countries”, the role of Europe and its relationship to the crisis regions in its neighborhood was increasingly in the foreground. In particular, the question of how Europe, in the form of the EU, can assert itself in an increasingly threatening world led to the concept of a “core Europe” which had been developed since the early 2000s and which was reflected in several publications.

Since 2007 Veit has been teaching German and French foreign policy at the France Center of the University of Freiburg and since 2013 European foreign and security policy at the EU Center of the "Institute for the International Education of Students" in Freiburg. Since leaving the FES in 2011, he has also worked as a consultant for scenario planning, a future analysis tool that is intended to prepare decision-makers for long-term, difficult-to-predict developments. In addition to projects in Bosnia, Senegal and Indonesia, the future of the world economic system, the euro zone and German-Russian relations were the subject of such analyzes.

In 2016, Veit published his first novel under the title “Allah's Wrath in the Garden of Europe”, published in the Montagnola Collection edited by Klaus Isele.

Fonts (selection)

National emancipation. Development Strategy and Foreign Policy in Tropical Africa. The examples of Ivory Coast and Guinea. World Forum, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-8039-0159-6 .

The Shah Syndrome. Political risk analysis and international crisis management. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), International Politics series, Bonn 1981.

Left Realpolitik. France's foreign policy under Mitterrand. FES, International Politics series, Bonn 1984, ISSN 0174-5204.

A European perspective for Israel. Key to Solving the Middle East Conflict , in: Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, No. 2/2003, pp. 155–180.

Bigger, wider, weaker: why the EU needs a “hard core” , in: Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, No. 2/2005, pp. 130–149.

Avant-garde, cercles concentriques et intégration politique européenne , in: Henri de Grossouvre (ed.), Pour une Europe européenne. Une avant-garde pour sortir de l'impasse , Xenia, Vevey 2007, pp. 35-46. ISBN 978-2-88892-037-3 .

Concentric circles - bridges in the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue? , in: Peter Molt / Helga Dickow (eds.), Cultures and Conflicts in Comparison. Festschrift for Theodor Hanf, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007, pp. 782–788. ISBN 3-8329-2400-0 .

Core Europe - soft shell (s), hard core. FES, international political analysis, Berlin 2012 (together with Gero Maaß). ISBN 978-3-86498-097-8 .

Foreign policy as international social policy. Dietz, Bonn 2013. ISBN 978-3-8012-0446-4 .

Europe's self-assertion in a threatening world. epubli, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-7375-9346-5 .

Allah's wrath in the garden of Europe. Novel. Collection Montagnola, Norderstedt 2016.

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personal data
SURNAME	Veit, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German political scientist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Horgen near Rottweil