Dr. Gunther Hellmann
DAAD/AICGS Fellow

Dr. Gunther Hellmann holds a chair in Political Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, specializing in International Relations. His primary research interests are in German and European foreign and security policy, transatlantic relations and International Relations (IR) theory.

Professor Hellmann studied Political Science, Philosophy and History at the universities of Freiburg and Munich between 1980 and 1983. In 1985 he received a "Master of Science in Foreign Service" degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service before working for a year for Catholic Relief Services in Egypt. After returning to Germany in 1986 he started his Ph.D. work on the U.S.-Soviet Rivalry in the Middle East with Helga Haftendorn at the Free University of Berlin. After another year as "Patterson-Pre-Doctoral-Fellow" at Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs (1987-1988), he assumed his first teaching position at the Free University in 1989. Between 1993 and 1999 he served as Assistant Professor and "Chaire Jean Monnet" at Darmstadt University of Technology. Since 1999 he has taught at Goethe-University, where he has served, among other capacities, as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Professor Hellmann was one of the chairs of the Section on International Relations in the German Association of Political Science between 2000 and 2006. He is also Co-Editor of the German IR-journal "Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen." Among other memberships, Professor Hellmann is a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik and the Atlantik-Brücke.

Professor Hellmann has published widely on German foreign policy, European and transatlantic security, and IR theory. His recent publications include "Handbuch zur deutschen Aussenpolitik" (2007, edited together with Siegmar Schmidt and Reinhard Wolf), a textbook on German foreign policy ("Deutsche Aussenpolitik: Eine Einführung," 2006) and an edited volume on Germany's European policies in the fields of asylum and defense summarizing the findings of a research project funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), also published in 2006. He is currently working on a book project on the transformation of German foreign policy since unification. While at AICGS he will be working on transatlantic relations in the context of German grand strategy.

Professor Hellmann will be at AICGS until March 29, 2007; to contact him while at AICGS, please click here.