Prof. Dr Klaus Dieter Wolf
Deputy Director; Head of Research Department
RD: Private Actors in the Transnational Sphere
e-Mail: wolfNoeSPAM@ thanx-for-not-spamming! hsfk.de
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Biography
1971-1977 | Studies at the Universities of Frankfurt/Main, Nottingham and Tübingen |
1977 | Graduation (Political Science and English Studies), University of Tübingen |
1978-1980 | Internship United Nations Institute for Training and Research at New York and Geneva; Participant in the Third Conference on the Sea of Law |
1981 | Ph.D. (Dr. rer. soc.) in Political Science, University of Tübingen |
1981-1984 | Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen |
1985 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), University of Denver, USA |
1984-1989 | Assistant Professor, Institute for Political Science, University of Tübingen |
1989-1991 | Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Political Science at Stuttgart University |
1990 | Habilitation in Political Science, University of Tübingen |
1991-1992 | Visiting Professor for International Politics, University of Konstanz |
since 1992 | Chair for International Relations, Institute of Political Science, Darmstadt University of Technology |
since February 2005 | Head of Research Group at PRIF |
since 2007 | Member of the Executive Board |
Further Affiliations and Activities
Since 1993 | Founding Editor an Co-Editor of “Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen” (Journal “International Relations”), edited by the International Politics Section of the German Political Science Association |
Since 1999 | Co-Editor of the “Weltpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert” (“World Politics in the 21th Century”) Monograph Series of the International Politics Section of the German Political Science Association |
Since 2000 | Member of the Advisory Council of the Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Naturwissenschaft, Technik und Sicherheit (IANUS), („Interdisciplinary Working Group Natural Science, Technology and Security”), Darmstadt University of Technology |
Since 2000 | Member of the Advisory Council on Peace and Conflict Research, Foreign Office, Germany |
2003-2006 | President of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) |
Since March 2006 | Non-Northamerican Member of the ISA Governing Council |
2006-2009 | Member of the Scientific Council of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) |
Since 2007 | Member of the Board of Directors of the Frankfurt University's Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders" |
Projects
- The Role of Transnational Corporations in Conflict Zones
- Designing proliferation-resistant fusion reactors –Ideas for developing an effective and just nuclear order for the twenty-first century
- Global Crime Governance – Towards a Normative Order to Combat Transnational Non-state Violence and Organized Crime
Selected Publications
- Publications, Arbeitspapiere, Nr. 3, 2010
- Variations in Corporate Norm-Entrepreneurship Why the Home State Matters, 2010
- Business in Zones of Conflict and Global Security Governance What has been Learnt and Where to from Here?, 2010
- Chartered Companies Linking Private Security Governance in Early and Post Modernity, 2010
- Corporate Security Responsibility Corporate Governance Contributions to Peace and Security in Zones of Conflict, 2010
- Corporate Security Responsibility? Corporate Governance Contributions to Peace and Security in Zones of Conflict, 2010
- The Role of Business in Global Governance Corporations as Norm-Entrepreneurs, 2010
- Education in Political Science Discovering a Neglected Field, 2009
- Normative Dimensions of Reforms in Higher Education, 2009
- Introduction A Governance Perspective on Education Policy, 2009
- Conclusions Education Policy, Political Science and the State in Transition, 2009
- PISA als Trojanisches Pferd Die Internationalisierung der Bildungspolitik in der OECD, 2009
- Emerging Patterns of Global Governance The New Interplay between the State, Business and Civil Society, 2008
- Staat und Gesellschaft - fähig zur Reform? 23. wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, 2007
- Einführungsvortrag Staat und Gesellschaft - fähig zur Reform?, 2007
- Doing Good While Doing Well? Potenzial und Grenzen grenzüberschreitender privatwirtschaftlicher Selbstregulierung, 2007
- Macht und Ohnmacht internationaler Institutionen, Studien der HSFK, 2007
- Corporate Security Responsibility A Conceptual Framework for Comparative Research, 2007
- Staatsräson in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 2007
- The Potential and Limits of Governance by Private Codes of Conduct, 2007
Consulting on
- Democratic Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Global Governance
- International Civil Society
- Corporate Governance
- United Nations




