Carlo Masala

Carlo Masala
Masala in 2023
Born (1968-03-27) 27 March 1968
Cologne
Alma materUniversity of Cologne
Known forPodcast Sicherheitshalber
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science
InstitutionsBundeswehr University Munich

Carlo Masala (born 27 March 1968 in Cologne[1]) is professor for International Politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lecturer at the University of Munich,[2][3] as well as lecturer and member of the senate of Munich School of Political Science.[4] From 2022, he became known to a wider audience through frequent appearances on German television as expert on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1]

Early life

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 the Seeberg district and later in the Pesch district. As a child, he also lived in Sardinia for a few years. In his childhood and youth, he experienced racist exclusion, for example by classmates and local police officers. He speaks fluent German and Italian and has knowledge of the Sardinian language.[5][6]

Education

From 1988 to 1992 Masala studied in Cologne and Bonn political sciences as well as German studies and Romance studies. After having finished his Master's degree, he started to work as researcher in Cologne. In 1996 he graduated at the Institute for Political Sciences and European Issues with a doctoral thesis on German-Italian Relations. In 2002 he was awarded his habilitation in political sciences.[7]

Career

In 2003 Masala was temporarily employed as professor at the University of Munich, and in 2004 he started to work at the NATO Defence College in Rome. From 2006 to 2007 he used to be assistant director of research at the college. In July 2007 Masala took a chair of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich.[8]

Masala considers himself a neorealist.[9] His main research areas are theories of international politics, security politics as well as transatlantic relations.

Other activities

Books (Selection)

  • 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: the global crises and the illusions of the West] (in German) (6th ed.). Munich: C. H. Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-79325-7.

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Member list of the German Society for Political Science "DGFP – Mitglieder M". Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Hochschule für Politik München – Leitung – Gremien". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  5. ^ Anna-Lena Scholz: _Politikwissenschaft: Der Realist._ In: Die Zeit 17. März 2022, S. 31 (German)
  6. ^  "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)
  7. ^ "Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala". Institut für Politikwissenschaft (in German). Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  8. ^ "Internationale Politik". Unibw.de. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  9. ^ 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
  10. ^ "Advisory Board". Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS). 10 June 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
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