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PD Dr. Carsten Giersch

Tel.: ++49 -30- 847 123 54
carsten.giersch@berlin-risk-institute.de


Carsten Giersch (born 1965) is an expert for political risks, conflicts risks, and concerns of strategic cooperation. He has long-standing experience in comparative analysis of the political systems of countries and in assessing international security issues. Giersch is an associate professor of political science at the University of Rostock.


His Habilitationsschrift investigates the role of risk attitudes in international conflicts (Risiko- einstellungen in internationalen Konflikten). The study combines several academic disciplines, including political science, economics, psychology and the sociology of organisations. The hereupon developed practices of decision theory, game theory, and negotiation theory can be applied to general strategic issues of cooperation and conflict.


Carsten Giersch studied Political Science, Geography and Modern History at the universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Bonn. In his M.A. thesis he analysed the problems of reforming the German federal system. From 1992 to 2000 he was a research fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Bonn.


In 1998/1999 he was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University (sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation). Until 2006 he was Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Rostock.


Carsten Giersch published his doctoral dissertation entitled Konfliktregulierung in Jugoslawien 1991-1995. Die Rolle von OSZE, EU, UNO und NATO (Conflict Regulation in Yugoslavia 1991-1995. The Role of OSCE, EU, UNO, and NATO) in 1998. The study analysed the reforming of the multilateral security institutions and their various practices of conflict settlement. Subsequently, several articles on conflict research and international security policy, including the Kosovo conflict, were published.


His extensive experience as an academic lecturer comprises a wide range of courses and lectures on comparative government and international relations. Furthermore, he prepared expert reports and organised and directed strategic games and computer based negotiation simulations

 

 

Publikationen

 

  • Risikoeinstellungen in internationalen Konflikten (VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden,2009).

  • Konfliktregulierung in Jugoslawien 1991 - 1995. Die Rolle von OSZE, EU, UNO und NATO
    (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1998).   Table of Contents (PDF)

  • Sicherheitspolitische Probleme im Ostseeraum, in: Detlef Jahn/Nikolaus Werz (eds.): Politische Systeme und Beziehungen im Ostseeraum, München 2002, pp. 219-232.

  • Zehn Jahre europäisches Krisenmanagement auf dem Balkan – Eine vergleichende Bilanz der Kriege in Kroatien, Bosnien und Kosovo, in: Krieg und Frieden, ed. by Wichard Woyke, Schwalbach/Ts. 2002, pp. 22-37.

  • Konfliktregulierung ohne Konzept und Konsens, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Die Gegenwart), 23 March 2000.

  • Nato und militärische Diplomatie im Kosovo-Konflikt, in: Der Kosovo-Konflikt. Ursachen, Verlauf, Perspektiven, ed. by Jens Reuter und Konrad Clewing, Klagenfurt 2000, pp. 443-466.

  • Die Europäische Union und der Krieg im Kosovo, in: ibd., pp. 499-512.

  • Multilateral Conflict Regulation - The Case of Kosovo, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Working Paper Series, No. 4/2000, Cambridge/Mass.

  • Föderalismus und Länderparlamentarismus nach der deutschen Einheit, in: Macht und Zeitkritik, Festschrift für Hans-Peter Schwarz, ed. by Peter R. Weilemann, Hanns Jürgen Küsters, Günter Buchstab, Paderborn 1999, pp. 637-648.

  • Der Jugoslawien-Konflikt als Testfall Europäischer Sicherheit, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 29/1997, pp. 26-38.

  • Die westliche Politik und der Kroatien-Krieg, 1991-1992, in: Südosteuropa, 3-4/1994, pp. 91-125 (with Daniel Eisermann).