Gerd JUNNE

Current position:

Professor emeritus (Chair in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam), School of Social Sciences (1982-2011), director of The Network University (TNU), Board member of War Child Holland and Radio La Benevolencija Humanitarian Tools Foundation, Research Fellow at the Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit of the University of York, member of the Steering Committee of the Cultural Emergencies Response programme of the Prince Claus Fund.

Main research interests:

Interaction between political and economic development, conflict studies, post-conflict development, migration, social cohesion, e-learning.

Curriculum vitae:

Born in 1947 in Germany, graduated from high school at Kiel in 1966, studied political science, law and economics at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Genève (1966-1970), worked as a lecturer at the universities of Berlin (FU), Bremen and Konstanz (1970-1979) and as associate professor at the University of Amsterdam (1979-1982). Carried out research and evaluation projects for (among others) the United Nations, FAO, ILO, the European Union, the VW Foundation, the Rathenau Institute, the German Parliament, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dutch Ministry of Transport, Dutch National Research Program on Air Pollution and Climate Research.

Book Publications:

• (with Willemijn Verkoren, eds.) – Postconflict Development. Meeting New Challenges, Boulder/London (Lynne Rienner), 2005, vii, 370 p.

• (with Martin Fransman en Annemieke Roobeek, eds.). - The Biotechnology Revolution?, Oxford (Blackwell) 1995, 547 p.

• (with Hartmut Elsenhans, Gerhard Kiersch, and Birgit Polmann, eds.) - Frankreich, Europa, Weltpolitik. Festschrift für Gilbert Ziebura, Opladen/Wiesbaden (Westdeutscher Verlag), March 1989, 585 p.

• (with Rob van Tulder) - European Multinationals in Core Technologies, Chichester (John Wiley & Sons) 1988, xv, 286 p.

• Kritisches Studium der Sozialwissenschaften. Eine Einführung in Arbeitstechniken, Stuttgart etc. (Kohlhammer), 1976, 19862

• Der Eurogeldmarkt. Seine Bedeutung für Inflation und Inflationsbekämpfung (Dissertation), Frankfurt (Campus) 1976, 252 p.

• (with Salua Nour) Internationale Abhängigkeiten. Fremdbestimmung und Ausbeutung als Regelfall internationaler Beziehungen, Frankfurt (Fischer Athenäum) 1974, 171 p.

• Spieltheorie in der internationalen Politik. Die beschränkte Rationalität strategischen Denkens, Düsseldorf (Bertelsmann Universitätsverlag) 1972, 202 p.