Bio
Hanns Maull is Adjunct Professor of International Relations at SAIS Europe
Senior Distinguished Fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Senior Policy Fellow for China’s Global Role, Mercator Institute of China Studies (MERICS), Berlin
Professor and Chair of Foreign Policy and International Relations, University of Trier (until March 2013); Former Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin; Former Deputy Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board of the German Council of Foreign Relations; Senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, Washington, DC (2010-2011). Prof. Maull is one of Germany's leading academic foreign policy analysts, working on both German foreign policy and international relations in Asia-Pacific.
Courses
- East Asian Security
In this course, contemporary security challenges and policy responses in East Asia are analyzed from a variety of different theoretical perspectives. The basic assumption is that only such a multi-facetted approach can help us understand and integrate the broad spectrum of security concerns and the intricate interactions between them, ranging from human security through traditional national security to regional and global security issues, in this highly complex region (defined here as China and its maritime environment in North and South East Asia). And only such a comprehensive understanding of security in East Asia can provide us with useful tools to evaluate national, regional and multilateral policy responses.
- Strategic Foresight for Political Risk Analysis: Working with Scenarios
The purpose of the seminar is a) to familiarize students with the scenario methodology as a way to think about uncertain futures, b) to do so by themselves developing scenarios on "The Middle East in 2025," and c) to link the scenario techniques to risk assessment and strategic foresight.
- The Indo-Pacific: Cooperation and contestation
The Indo-Pacific has developed into a new framework for regional co-operation and contestation between the major powers, replacing the earlier notion of the Asia-Pacific. It reflects the rise of China and its Belt and Road Initiative, which aspires to weld together the Eurasian landmass and its adjacent areas in a two-pronged, transcontinental and maritime drive. This course explores the material foundations, the perspectives and strategies of the major players in this huge maritime area, the patterns of co-operation and conflict in their interactions and the arrangements - and their deficiencies - for transregional international order.
