Prof. Dr. Ekkehart Krippendorff

Lecture on "Cultural Foundations of a Political Europe" on 3 December, 2008

Prof. Dr. Ekkehart Krippendorff enjoys an excellent reputation as an expert of Political Science and International Relations. Having done his PhD in Tübingen, Prof. Dr. Krippendorff has been working in the U.S. at Harvard, Yale and Columbia University for several years. While working in countries all over the world (among others England, Italy, and Japan), he spent most of his academic life at the Free University of Berlin where he held the chair in Political Science at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies and at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science.

Publications include books and articles on international relations, American political science, American foreign policy, Abraham Lincoln, war and the state in historical perspectice, the military, peace research, and Italy. During the last years main work in the field of literature and politics (e.g. Shakespeare and Goethe). The Italian translation of "The Art of Not Being Governed" (L'arte di non essere governati; Fazi Editore) received the 2003 prize "Città delle Rose".