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SCHOOL OF GLOBAL POLITICS

The EU facing global power shifts
Ludger Kühnhardt

Tuesday 4 February 2025, h 5 pm
@ASERI  - Via San Vittore 18

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Chair:
Damiano Palano, ASERI Director, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Guest speaker:
Ludger Kühnhardt, Director at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI); Professor of Political Science, Universität Bonn 

Discussant:
Andrea Locatelli, Professor of Political Science and Strategic Studies,Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Professor Dr. Ludger Kühnhardt was Director at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) and Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn from 1997 to 2024. Professor Kühnhardt's research focused on European integration, the global role of Europe, comparative research on regional groupings worldwide as well as on topics of political theory and philosophy.

Kühnhardt started a journalistic career which included extensive study tours through Asia and Africa. He worked for print media and radio stations and was author of several documentary films for German television. In 1977 he received the German Catholic Journalist Award. He studied history, political science and philosophy in Bonn, Geneva, Harvard and Tokyo. He received his PhD in 1983 and his “habilitation” in 1986, both times specializing in political science at the University of Bonn. Between 1985 and 1987 Kühnhardt was research assistant for Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Karl Dietrich Bracher at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bonn. From 1987 to 1989 he worked as speechwriter for the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Richard von Weizsäcker.

Kühnhardt was chair for Political Science at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg between 1991 and 1997, serving as Dean of the Philosophical Faculty in 1994/95. He was Visiting Professor at prestigious universities ( Capetown, Jena, College of Europe, Dartmouth College, Stanford University, Seoul National University, St.Antony’s College Oxford, Canterbury University Christchurch, Tongji University Shanghai, Universidade Federal de Santa Catalina Florianopolis), lectured regularly across Europe (Graduate School of Economics and International Relations (ASERI) of the Catholic University Milan, Diplomatic Academy Vienna, Mediterranean Academic of Diplomatic Studies (MEDAC) Malta) and was a visiting research scholar in Europe and in the United States (St Antony's College Oxford, Institute for Human Science Vienna,  Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Washington D.C.) The Woodrow Wilson Center appointed him as one of its Global Fellows. In 2004 he was awarded the European Science Prize of the European Cultural Foundation.

Kühnhardt served on several academic and consultative boards (Goerres Society, Collegium Europaeum Jenense, Institute of International Relations Warsaw, Commission for Societal and Social Questions of the German Bishops' Conference, European Studies in Asia of the Asia-Europe Foundation Singapore, West African Institute Praia, European Humanities University Vilnius). After German unification, he has been actively involved in the German Christian Democratic Union's Program Commission. He was a member of the Europe-wide Independent Commission for the Comprehensive Review of the Institutions and Procedures of the European Union (ICRI), the Steering Committee of the German-British Königswinter Conference and the Young Leaders Conferences of the Atlantic Bridge. He has advised various governments of EU candidate countries in Central and Southeastern Europe and the Bulgarian-Romanian Interuniversity Europe Centre (BRIE) in Rousse (Bulgaria) and, beyond his retirement, is active in the Board of Trustees of the Forum Central Europe at the Saxon State Parliament. Kühnhardt was member of the editorial board of several international journals in the field of political science.

Ludger Kühnhardt was born in 1958. He is married and father of two children.

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