#  Karl Kaiser Bio 

 



  
**Karl Kaiser**

Born in 1934. Studied Economics and Political Science at Cologne University 1954-58, Degree of Diplom-Kaufmann.   
  
Graduate studies at University of Grenoble, 1988-59 (D.E.S. de Science Politique) and Oxford University (Nuffield College), 1960-63. Simultaneously Doctoral dissertation on British Policy on European Integration at Cologne University (Dr.rer.pol.).   
  
Harvard University, first working for Henry Kissinger, then as Research Associate at the Center for International Affairs, Head Tutor in Social Studies   
and Lecturer in Government, 1963-68. Return to Harvard as Visiting Professor several times.   
  
Professorships at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna (Italy), Universities of Saarbruecken, Cologne, Florence, Bonn and Jerusalem.   
  
Otto-Wolff-Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations Bonn/Berlin 1973-2003   
  
Member of the Federal Commission for the Reform of the Federal Armed Services, Member of the Council of Environmental Advisors of Germany, Expert   
member of several commissions of enquiry of the German Parliament, Testimonials in the German and Dutch Parliaments, the US Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Subcommittee on European Affairs of the US Congress.   
  
Occasional Political Advisor to Chancellors Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, and to Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.   
  
Author/editor of several hundred articles and fifty books in the fields of world affairs, German, French, British and US foreign policy, East-West relations, Nuclear Proliferation, strategic theory, international economics, international environmental policy. His latest book: Coed. with J.D. Bindenagel /Matthias Herdegen, Sicherheit im 21. Jahrhundert, Bonn, in print.  
  
Honors: Honorary Doctor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prix Bentinck, Atlantic Award of NATO, Member of the American Philosophical Society.   
  
Present Position: Senior Associate,Program on Transatlantic Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.



 

##  PUBLICATIONS 

 



  [### BOOKS/BÜCHER

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   [### Co-authorship in Studies, Memoranda, Reports/Mitautorenschaft von Gutachten und gemeinschaftlichen Arbeiten 

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   [### Short Books and Pamphlets/ Kleinere Schriften 

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   [### Articles in Periodicals and Papers, Contributions to Books Testimonials, Reviews and other Publications / Artikel in Zeitschriften und Zeitungen, Buchbeiträge Aussagen vor Parlamenten, Rezensionen und andere Publikationen 

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