Carlo Masala (born 27 March 1968) is professor for International Politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lecturer at the University of Munich,[1][2] as well as lecturer and member of the senate of Munich School of Political Science.[3]
Carlo Masala | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 March 1968 |
| Alma mater | University of Cologne |
| Known for | Podcast Sicherheitshalber |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | political science |
| Institutions | Bundeswehr University Munich |
Early life
editMasala was born in Cologne to an Austrian saleswoman and an Italian migrant worker, who initially worked in mining in Dortmund and later at Felten & Guilleaume in Cologne. His father, who died young, spoke very good German and met his future wife in Germany.
Masala grew up as an Italian in Germany in the Cologne district of Chorweiler, first in the Seeberg district and later in the Pesch district As a child, he also lived in Sardinia for a few years. In his childhood and youth, he experienced racist exclusion, for example by classmates and local police officers. He speaks fluent German and Italian and has knowledge of the Sardinian language.[4] [5]
Education
editFrom 1988 to 1992 Masala studied in Cologne and Bonn political sciences as well as German studies and Romance studies. After having finished his Master's degree, he started to work as researcher in Cologne. In 1996 he graduated at the Institute for Political Sciences and European Issues with a doctoral thesis on German-Italian Relations. In 2002 he was awarded his habilitation in political sciences.[6]
Career
editIn 2003 Masala was temporarily employed as professor at the University of Munich, and in 2004 he started to work at the NATO Defence College in Rome. From 2006 to 2007 he used to be assistant director of research at the college. In July 2007 Masala took a chair of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich[7]
Masala considers himself a neorealist.[8] His main research areas are theories of international politics, security politics as well as transatlantic relations.
Other activities
edit- Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS), Member of the Advisory Board (since 2015)[9]
References
edit- ^ Member list of the German Society for Political Science "DGFP - Mitglieder M". Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
- ^ Profile at the Geschwister Scholl Institut of the University of Munich "Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala - Universität München". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
- ^ "Hochschule für Politik München - Leitung - Gremien". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
- ^ Anna-Lena Scholz: _Politikwissenschaft: Der Realist._ In: Die Zeit 17. März 2022, S. 31 (German)
- ^ "Jagoda Marinic im Gespräch mit Carlo Masala: Freiheit Deluxe" (https://www.hr2.de/programm/literaturland-hessen/freiheit-deluxe--podcast-mit-jagoda-marini--zu-gast-carlo-masala,sondersendung-literatur-216.html) In: Hr2-kultur (German)
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala". Institut für Politikwissenschaft (in German). Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- ^ "Internationale Politik". Unibw.de. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ Masala, Carlo (2011), Brummer, Klaus; Fröhlich, Stefan (eds.), "Why (Neo-)Realists (Usually) Don't Like Wars", Zehn Jahre Deutschland in Afghanistan, Sonderheft der Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (in German), Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 253–269, doi:10.1007/978-3-531-94292-6_12, ISBN 978-3-531-94292-6, retrieved 27 October 2023
- ^ "Advisory Board". Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS). 10 June 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2017.