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Dieter Mahncke (born 1941 in South-West Africa) is a
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of foreign policy and
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, and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Professor Emeritus of European Foreign Policy and Security Studies at the
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. He is the author of books and articles on European security, arms control, German foreign policy, Berlin, US-European relations and South Africa.


Education

Mahncke was born and raised in South-West Africa. After starting his studies at the
University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...
in
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
, he transferred to the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...
, where he received a B.A. in
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(1962). He holds an
M.A. A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...
and a PhD from the
School of Advanced International Studies The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., United States, with campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China. It is consistently ranked one of th ...
,
Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...
(1964, 1968), and a Habilitation from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn (1974).


Career


1960 to 1990s

Mahncke was a Research Associate with the
German Council on Foreign Relations The German Council on Foreign Relations (german: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V. (DGAP)) is Germany's national foreign policy network and policy research institute. As an independent, private, non-partisan and non-profit orga ...
(1968–1973), and Lecturer in
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at
Mainz University The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 st ...
(1969–1972) and Bonn University (1973–1974). He was professor of
political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...
at the
University of the German Federal Armed Forces The German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) runs two universities—one in Munich, (Bundeswehr University Munich) and another in Hamburg ( Helmut Schmidt University)—which focus on the scientific work and the academic study of the German armed fo ...
( Universität der Bundeswehr) in
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(1974) and
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(1975–1980). He was Vice President of the University of the German Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg 1977–1978. From 1979 to 1985 Mahncke was adviser to the German President and Deputy Chief of the Planning Staff in the
Ministry of Defense {{unsourced, date=February 2021 A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is an often-used name for the part of a government responsible for matters of defence, found in state ...
until 1996. He was a visiting fellow at Brown University (1989) and a senior visiting fellow at the
European Union Institute for Security Studies The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) is a Paris-based agency of the European Union (EU) within the realm of Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The EUISS is an autonomous agency with full intellectual freedom and res ...
(1992).


1990s to present

From 1996 to 2010 Mahncke was Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Professor for European Foreign Policy and Security Studies at the
College of Europe The College of Europe (french: Collège d'Europe) is a post-graduate institute of European studies with its main campus in Bruges, Belgium and a second campus in Warsaw, Poland. The College of Europe in Bruges was founded in 1949 by leading ...
in
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. Before this Mahncke had been a visiting professor at the
College of Europe The College of Europe (french: Collège d'Europe) is a post-graduate institute of European studies with its main campus in Bruges, Belgium and a second campus in Warsaw, Poland. The College of Europe in Bruges was founded in 1949 by leading ...
since 1975, teaching both on the
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and
Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
(since 1996) campus. Mahncke has held visiting professorships in Germany ( Halle), Belgium ( Antwerp), Bulgaria (
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), Thailand (
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) and the United States ( Dartmouth, Middlebury,
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, UNC). He also taught at the
Moscow State Institute of International Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) (russian: Московский государственный институт международных отношений (МГИМО), also known as MGIMO University) is an institute of ...
(MGIMO). From 1995 to 2010 he was Member of the Board of the Harris German Distinguished Visiting Professorship at
Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...
.


Distinctions

* Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2017) * Honorary Professor of the College of Europe (2016) * Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1984) * Grand Officer of the
Order of Orange-Nassau The Order of Orange-Nassau ( nl, Orde van Oranje-Nassau, links=no) is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands. The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has ...
(1982)


Publications


Books (selection)

* Nukleare Mitwirkung. Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland in der atlantischen Allianz 1954–1970. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 1972. * Westeuropäische Verteidigungskooperation (hrsg. mit Karl Carstens). Mit einem Vorwort von Helmut Schmidt. Band 31 der Schriften des Forschungsinstituts der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik. Verlag R. Oldenbourg, München/Wien 1972. * Berlin im geteilten Deutschland. Band 34 der Schriften des Forschungsinstituts der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik. Verlag R. Oldenbourg, München/Wien 1973. * Seemacht und Außenpolitik (hrsg. mit Hans-Peter Schwarz). Mit einem Vorwort von Georg Leber. Band 11 der Reihe Rüstungsbeschränkung und Sicherheit" Alfred Metzner Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 1974. * Vertrauensbildende Maßnahmen als Instrument der Sicherheitspolitik. Ursprung, Entwicklung, Perspektiven. Band 59 der Forschungsberichte der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Verlag Ernst Knoth, Melle 1987. * Konflikt in Südafrika. Die politische Problematik Südafrikas in ihren innen- und außenpolitischen Dimensionen. Band 12 der Studien zur Politik. Schöningh-Verlag, Paderborn/München/Wien/Zürich 1989. * Amerikaner in Deutschland. Grundlagen und Bedingungen der transatlantischen Sicherheit (Hrsg.). Mit einem Vorwort von Gerhard Stoltenberg. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1991. * Parameters of European Security. Institute for Security Studies, Western European Union. Chaillot Papers 10, Paris, September 1993. (Französisch: Les Paramètres de la Sécurité Européenne.) * Vertrauensbildende Maßnahmen und europäisches Sicherheitssystem: Von Stockholm 1986 bis Helsinki 1992. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V., Bonn 1994. * ASEAN and the EU in the International Environment (hrsg. mit Kullada Kesbonchoo-Mead, Prathoomporn Vajrasthira und Rudolf Hrbek). Asia-Europe Studies Series, Vol. 4, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1999. * The College of Europe: Fifty Years of Service to Europe (hrsg. mit L. Bekemans und R. Picht). Brügge 1999. * Old Frontiers – New Frontiers. The Challenge of Kosovo and its Implications for the European Union (Ed.). Mit Vorwort von Javier Solana Madariaga. Peter Lang, Bern 2001. . * Redefining Transatlantic Security Relations: The Challenge of Change (mit Wayne Thompson und Wyn Rees). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004. * European Foreign Policy (hrsg. mit Alicia Ambos & Christopher Reynolds), College of Europe Studies No. 1, Brüssel: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2004. . * International Terrorism. A European Response to a Global Threat? (hrsg. mit Jörg Monar), College of Europe Studies No. 3, Brüssel: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2006. . * Europe's Near Abroad. Promises and Prospects of the EU's Neighbourhood Policy (hrsg. mit Sieglinde Gstöhl), College of Europe Studies No. 4, Brüssel: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008. . * European Union Diplomacy. Coherence, Unity and Effectiveness. Mit Vorwort von Herman Van Rompuy (hrsg. mit Sieglinde Gstöhl), College of Europe Studies No. 15, Brüssel: P.I.E. Peter Lang 2012. .


Articles (selection)

* South West Africa 1904–1907. in: D. Condit and B. Cooper (eds.), Challenge and Response in Internal Conflict, Vol. III: The Experience in Africa and Latin America, Washington D.C. 1968, S. 83–103. * Was ist Friedensforschung? in: Europa-Archiv 22/1969, S. 795–802. * Atlantische Allianz und europäische Sicherheit. in: Schweizer Monatshefte, April 1970, S. 2–35. * Der politische Umbruch in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Von der Großen Koalition zur SPD/FDP-Regierung. in: Die internationale Politik 1968/1969, Jahrbuch des Forschungsinstituts der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, München/Wien 1974, S. 374–390. * Europe and the United States. in: Common Ground, Juli 1976, S. 53–61. * Abschluss der Neuordnung der Beziehungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Osteuropa. in: Die internationale Politik 1973/1974, Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, München/Wien 1980, S. 193–216. * Die Beteiligung der Öffentlichkeit an der Außenpolitik im internationalen Vergleich. Stärken und Schwächen der demokratischen Staaten. in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Außenpolitik 2/1982, S. 94–103. * Maritime Interessen und die atlantische Option der deutschen Politik nach 1945. in: Die deutsche Flotte im Spannungsfeld der Politik 1848–1985, hrsg. vom Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt, Freiburg/Br. 1985, S. 153–184. * Verteidigung in Europa: Was spricht für eine europäische Sicherheitspolitik? in: Politische Studien, Juli/August 1986, S. 423–433. * Alternativen zur nuklearen Abschreckung als Grundlage europäischer Sicherheit? in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Beilage zu Das Parlament, 25. Oktober 1986, S. 3–13. * Alternatives to Nuclear Defense in Europe: Are we Talking about the Right Issue? in: P. Terrence Hopmann and Frank Barnaby (eds.), Rethinking the Nuclear Weapons Dilemma in Europe, London 1988, S. 183–204. * Die Legitimation bewaffneter Friedenssicherung. in: Ulrich Sarcinelli (Hrsg.), Demokratische Streitkultur. Theoretische Grundpositionen und Handlungsalternativen in Politikfeldern, Opladen 1990, S. 197–217. * Hoffnung ohne Garantie? Diskussion mit Elmar Schmähling. in: Die Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte 2/1990, S. 150–156. * Südafrikas Außenpolitik: Gibt es einen Weg aus der Isolation? in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Beilage zu Das Parlament, Dezember 1990, S. 1–9. * Reunification as an Issue in German Politics 1949–1990. in: Dieter Grosser (ed.), German Unification. The Unexpected Challenge, Oxford 1992, S. 33–54. * Wandel im Wandel: Bundeswehr und europäische Sicherheit. in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Beilage zu Das Parlament, April 1993, S. 40–46. * Innerdeutsche Beziehungen und internationale Rahmenbedingungen: Die Berlin-Krise 1958–1961/62. Gutachten für die Enquete-Kommission des Deutschen Bundestages zur Geschichte und Folgen der SED-Diktatur, Bonn/Berlin, Oktober 1993 (107 Seiten), veröffentlicht in: Deutscher Bundestag (Hrsg.), Materialien der Enquete-Kommission, Aufarbeitung von Geschichte und Folgen der SED-Diktatur in Deutschland, Band V, S. 1766–1821, ferner S. 17–27, 66–71. * The Role of the USA in Europe: Successful Past but Uncertain Future? (1999) * Eine gemeinsame Europäische Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik: Auswirkungen auf die transatlantischen Beziehungen. in: Hanspeter Neuhold (Hrsg.), Die GASP: Entwicklungen und Perspektiven, Occasional Papers (4/2000) der Diplomatischen Akademie Wien, S. 36–44. * Russia's Attitude to the European Security and Defence Policy. in: European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 6, No. 4, Kluwer Law International, Winter 2001, S. 427–436. * Transatlantic Relations: Fractured or Simply Strained? in: Favorita Papers 02/2003, Diplomatische Akademie Wien, S. 30–43. * A New World Order?, in: August Reinisch / Ursula Kriebaum (eds.), The Law of International Relations – Liber Amicorum Hanspeter Neuhold, Eleven International Publishing, Utrecht, January 2007, pp. 211–227. * The United States, Germany and France: Balancing Transatlantic Relations. in: The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 1/11 (Februar 2009), S. 79–93. * A Post-modern Diplomacy: Can EU Foreign Policy Make a Difference in World Politics? Bruges, EU Diplomacy Paper 04/2011. * What's wrong with the European Union? And what can be done? Bruges Political Research Papers/Cahiers de recherche politique de Bruges 54/2016.


References

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