Carlo Masala
Carlo Masala | |
|---|---|
 Masala in 2023 | |
| Born | 27 March 1968 Cologne, West Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Cologne |
| Known for | Podcast Sicherheitshalber |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Political science |
| Institutions | Bundeswehr University Munich |
Carlo Masala (born 27 March 1968)[1] is a German political scientist, lecturer and researcher. He is currently professor of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lecturer at the University of Munich,[2][3] and lecturer as well as member of the senate of the Munich School of Political Science.[4] He has become known to a wider audience through frequent appearances on German television as an expert on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1]
Early life
[edit]Masala was born in 1968 in Cologne to an Austrian mother and an Italian father.[1] He grew up as an Italian in Germany in the Cologne district of Chorweiler, first in Seeberg and later in Pesch. As a child, he also lived for a few years in Sardinia. During his childhood and youth in Germany, Masala experienced racist exclusion, especially from classmates and local police officers.
Masala speaks fluent German and Italian, and has a knowledge of the Sardinian language.[5][6]
Education
[edit]From 1988 to 1992, Masala studied political science as well as German studies and Romance studies at the main universities of Cologne and Bonn. After completing his master's degree, he began work as a researcher in Cologne. In 1996 he earned his PhD from the Institute for Political Sciences and European Issues; his doctoral thesis focused on German-Italian relations. In 2002 he was awarded the post-doctoral Habilitation, the highest academic degree in German-speaking countries, in the field of political science.[7]
Career
[edit]In 2003 Masala was temporarily employed as a professor at the University of Munich. In 2004 he moved to the NATO Defence College in Rome, where he was an assistant director of research in 2006–2007. In July 2007 Masala was named chair of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich.[8]
Masala considers himself a neorealist.[9] His main research areas are international political theory, security politics, and transatlantic relations.
Other activities
[edit]- Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS), member of the Advisory Board (since 2015)[10]
Books (Selection)
[edit]- Masala, Carlo (2025). Wenn Russland gewinnt: Ein Szenario [If Russia wins: a scenario] (in German) (2nd ed.). Munich: C. H. Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-82448-7.
- Masala, Carlo (2024). Warum die Welt keinen Frieden findet [Why the world does not find peace] (in German). Wien: Brandstätter Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7106-0705-9.
- Masala, Carlo (2023). Bedingt abwehrbereit: Deutschlands Schwäche in der Zeitenwende [Conditionally ready to defend: Germany's weakness in the Zeitenwende] (in German). Munich: C. H. Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-80039-9.
- Masala, Carlo (2022). Weltunordnung: Die globalen Krisen und die Illusionen des Westens [World disorder: global crises and the illusions of the West] (in German) (6th ed.). Munich: C. H. Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-79325-7.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Watter, Udo (23 March 2023). "Das Ende des ewigen Friedens" [The end of eternal peace]. SZ (in German). Retrieved 6 April 2025.
- ^ Member list of the German Society for Political Science "DGFP – Mitglieder M". Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
- ^ Profile at the Geschwister Scholl Institut of the University of Munich "Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala – Universität München". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
- ^ "Hochschule für Politik München – Leitung – Gremien". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
- ^ Anna-Lena Scholz: _Politikwissenschaft: Der Realist._ In: Die Zeit 17. März 2022, S. 31 (German)
- ^ "Jagoda Marinic im Gespräch mit Carlo Masala: Freiheit Deluxe" (https://www.hr2.de/programm/literaturland-hessen/freiheit-deluxe--podcast-mit-jagoda-marini--zu-gast-carlo-masala,sondersendung-literatur-216.html) In: Hr2-kultur (German)
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala". Institut für Politikwissenschaft (in German). Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- ^ "Internationale Politik". Unibw.de. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ Masala, Carlo (2011), Brummer, Klaus; Fröhlich, Stefan (eds.), "Why (Neo-)Realists (Usually) Don't Like Wars", Zehn Jahre Deutschland in Afghanistan, Sonderheft der Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (in German), Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 253–269, doi:10.1007/978-3-531-94292-6_12, ISBN 978-3-531-94292-6, retrieved 27 October 2023
- ^ "Advisory Board". Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS). 10 June 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in German)
- Chair of Prof. Masala, Archive
