Dr. Klaus Bachmann

Dr. Klaus Bachmann is currently a DAAD/AICGS Fellow, where he is working on a research paper assessing the impact of the EU's latest Treaty Reform on transatlantic relations. The project analyzes the negotiations between the EU and the U.S. about the liberalization of air services (Open Skies Initiative) and extradition in order to assess the current shift in the EU's Reform Treaty's impact on transatlantic relations, from intergovernmental to communitarian decision making. The project draws on veto player and game theory.

Dr. Bachmann has a Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw in history and a teaching certificate from the University of Wroclaw / Breslau in Political Science, which he obtained for an analysis of the European Convention. He is currently a university professor at the Warsaw School for Social Psychology.

Dr. Bachmann began his professional life in 1988 as foreign correspondent for several German and Austrian newspapers in Warsaw, after studies in History, Political Science, and Slavonic Languages in Heidelberg, Vienna, and Krakow. Subsequently he also began to report on politics and economy in neighboring countries such as Belarus, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania. During the second half of the 1990s he also wrote for Polish, Ukrainian and Czech newspapers. In 2001 he went to Brussels as a correspondent for the Benelux-Countries, working for German, Austrian, Swiss and Polish newspapers. In 2004 he obtained his teaching certificate and was nominated chair holder for Political Science at the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies of the University of Wroclaw / Breslau.

Over the past few years he has published several books about Poland's integration into the EU, Polish-German relations, Ukrainian-Polish relations, on the process of reevaluating history in postwar Germany, and public opinion in postwar Poland. In 2004 he also was visiting professor for contemporary Polish history at the University of Vienna. He is also a board member of the Stefan-Batory-Foundation, the Polish Branch of the Soros Foundation Network in Europe.

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