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Klaus Segbers
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
ks2623@columbia.edu
Biography:
Klaus Segbers teaches Migration and International Politics. He is Professor of Political Science and East European Politics at Free University of Berlin. He has also taught international and comparative politics at a number of other European universities and served as Director of a variety of research centers across the globe.
He focuses on designing innovative concepts of knowledge-building and knowledge transfer via blended learning concepts. He is the founder of the Center for Global Politics at Freie Universitat Berlin, offering four distinct graduate study programs designed for professionals and young leaders (www.global-politics.org).
Segbers studied history, Slavic languages, political science and philosophy at universities in Bochum and Konstanz and received his PhD for a study on the USSR during the Second World War from the University of Bremen. He worked as research fellow at the Universities of Bremen and Frankfurt/Main. In 1990, Dr. Segbers joined Germany's biggest think tank, the Foundation for Science and Politics (SWP) at (then) Ebenhausen. From there, he qualified as university teacher with a book on systemic change in the Soviet Union (1992). In 1994 he became head of the department for East European Politics and then director of a research project on Post-Soviet Puzzles at the SWP. In 1995/96 he was professor for International Relations at the University of Konstanz.
At Freie Universität Berlin, Klaus Segbers directed two interdisciplinary projects on "Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks" (1998-2000) and on "Globalizing City Regions" (2002-2005). Since then, he directs the two distant learning programs East European Studies Online and International Relations Online. Furthermore, he is in charge of the Shanghai-based summer school on global politics at Fudan University. His main research fields are globalizing city regions, institutional change in transforming societies and Germany's external relations.