Hartmut Elsenhans (born 13 October 1941 in

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) is a German political scientist. He is an emeritus professor of

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at the

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Biography

After graduating high school in his hometown, Stuttgart, he studied

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and Romance studies at the

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and the

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. After earning his ''

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'' there in 1967, Elsenhans moved to

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where he was a member of the Cycle Supérieur d’Etudes Politiques, where the likes of

Ralf Dahrendorf Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, (1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and a ...

, Theodor Eschenburg, Alfred Grosser, Gerhard Lehmbruch and Gilbert Ziebura were among his teachers. From 1970 to 1975, Elsenhans was Ziebura's assistant. He earned his doctorate in 1973 with a study on the decolonization of

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in the

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1954 to 1962. In 1976, he gained

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at FU Berlin. The title of his professoral thesis was "History and Economy of the European global conquest from the age of discovery to World War I" (original German ''"Geschichte und Ökonomie der Europäischen Welteroberung. Vom Zeitalter der Entdeckungen bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg"''). Throughout his career, he expanded his work on this topic, publishing a total of five volumes on the subject. In the late 1970s, he had short stints as a lecturer at the University of Montreal and the University of Frankfurt before settling down for his first professorship (of International Relations) at the University of Marburg. His focus there was on the analysis of underdevelopment and national and social emancipatory movements. In 1980, he went to

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for his second professorship, working on and with the administration and governance of developing countries and with international development organizations. After

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, Elsenhans took the opportunity to go to

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, to help build up the department of International relations at the university there. He taught there until 2007, when he retired. He was given honorary membership of the faculty of political science at the

. Elsenhans currently still resides, lectures and researches in Leipzig. Bibliography: * ''Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists. World Capitalism and Global History'', Sage, 2014, 340 pages,
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Prof. Dr. Hartmut Elsenhans
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