michael.harsch@fu-berlin.de
Michael F. Harsch is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. His doctoral thesis focuses on NATO-UN cooperation in international crisis management. Over the last two years, he has assisted Professor Helga Haftendorn (FU Berlin) on a project on how Europe and the U.S. cooperate on non-European issues, funded by the Norwegian Nobel Institute. In 2008, he conducted research at NATO Headquarters in Belgium, in Kosovo, and at UN Headquarters in New York. He holds a Ph.D. scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and is speaker of the Foundation’s fellows’ working group on security policy. He is a contributor to the ETH Zürich’s information service “ISN Security Watch,” and to the SAIS/CTR and washingtonpost.com discussion platform on international affairs “Next Europe.” Michael studied in Germany and France, and holds a diploma degree (MA equivalent) in Political Science from the FU Berlin. He has gathered a wide range of work experience in the field of international relations and security policy. Among others, he interned at the office of the French National Assembly’s vice-president Yves Bur, at the crisis prevention and post-conflict peacebuilding division of the German Foreign Office, at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and in the SPD parliamentary group’s working group on foreign affairs at the German Bundestag.
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