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Gert Krell's CV (updated January 4, 2024)

PERSONAL DATA AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Personal Data:

• Date and place of birth: July 1st, 1945 at Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
• Family: married, two children
• Nationality: German
• Address: Im Langgewann 37, 65719 Hofheim, Germany

Professional Qualifications:

• 1971, "Staatsexamen" (public exam) for grammar school teachers in English and History (at Marburg University)
• 1976, Dr. phil. in Political Science (Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main)
• 1984, "Habilitation" (venia legendi) for International Relations (from Gie en University)

Professional Development:

• 1964-1971, Studies of English, History and Political Science at Cologne and Marburg
• 1971-77, Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
• 1977-80, Akademischer Rat (Academic Councillor) at Frankfurt University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of International Relations
• 1981-82, Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London
• 1983-84, Assistant Director for Regional Security at the IISS, Member of the Directing Staff
• 1981-95, Director of Research for International Arms Race Dynamics and Arms Control" and European Security at PRIF, 1982-1983 and 1986-1990 Executive Director at PRIF
• 1994-2006, Professor for International Relations at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, repeatedly elected Executive Director of the Institute of Comparative Politics and International Relations (today: Institute of Political Science)
• 1997-2000, Dean or Member of the Dean's Directing Team in the Faculty of the Social Sciences
• 1997-2000, Chairman of the Committee for Teaching and Studies
• 2000-2001, Dean of Studies at the Faculty
• retired since February 1st, 2006

RESEARCH AND MAJOR PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS WHILE AT PRIF

• international relations, particularly international peace and security issues
• East-West-Conflict, in particular arms race dynamics and arms control
• US foreign and defense policy
• West German foreign and defense policy
• gender and peace

RESEARCH AND MAJOR ROFESSIONAL INTERESTS WHILE AT FRANFURT UNIVERSITY

• international relations theory
• world order and world politics
• theory and practice of US foreign policy
• peace and conflict research
• Middle-East conflict

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 1975-77, Lecturer at Gie en University
• 1977-80, Lecturer at the Goethe-University Frankfurt
• 1977-83, Member of the directing team in the "Commission on Teaching Foreign and Defense Policy" at the Ministry of Culture in Hessen: co-direction of teacher-training courses and the publication of teaching-material
• 1995-2005, regular teaching of courses on international relations (IR-theory, history of political theory relevant to IR, IPE, world order and world politics), on US foreign policy, on the Middle East conflict and on politial science in general (introduction, methodology)

PUBLICATIONS

• monographs, editions and articles on topics in peace and conflict research and in international relations, in particular on arms race dynamics and arms control, US and FRG foreign policy, and the Middle East conflict
• 1987-1994, co-editor of the annual "Friedensgutachten" (yearbook on world peace)
• Recent publications:
  - Zwischen Krieg und Frieden: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk von Ekkehart Krippendorff, in: Zeitschrift f r Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 2:1 (2013), S. 141-170
  - Schafft Deutschland sich ab? Ein Essay ber Demografie, Intelligenz, Armut und Einwanderung, Schwalbach 2013
  - with Peter Schlotter: Zwischen Staatenwelt und Weltstaat: Zur Diskussion ber Weltordnung und Weltfrieden, PRIF Working Papers No. 21, Frankfurt/Main, November 2014
  - Zur Verantwortung der Friedensforschung: Autobiografische Anmerkungen, in: Ines-Jacqueline Werkner/Klaus Ebeling (Eds.), Handbuch Friedensethik, Wiesbaden 2016, S. 951-964
  - with Peter Schlotter: Weltbilder und Weltordnung: Einf hrung in die Theorie der internationalen Beziehungen, 5th ed., Baden-Baden 2018
  - Weltordnung oder Weltunordnung: Theoretische Leitperspektiven in den Internationalen Beziehungen, in: Zeitschrift f r Politik, 66:1 (March 2019), S. 4-33
  - Klimadiskurs kontrovers: Zwischen Verharmlosung und Alarmstimmung, Frankfurt 2020
  - Schatten der Vergangenheit: Deutschland, die USA und der Nahost-Konfikt, Baden-Baden 2024