Michael Zürn#
| Membership Number: | 3861 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.wzb.eu/en/persons/michael-zuern |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 Director of the research unit “Global Governance” at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center
- 2004 Professor of International Relations, Free University Berlin
- 2004 - 2009 Founding Dean of the Hertie School of Governance
- 1997 - 2000 Director of the Centre for European Law and Policy (ZERP), University of Bremen
- 1995 - 2004 Director of the Institute for Intercultural and Internationale
- 1993 - 2004 Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Bremen
- 1992 - 1993 Thyssen Research Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
- 1991 - 1993 Assistant Professor, Institute for Political Science, University of Tübingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Global governance
- International relations
- International institutions
- International political theory
- Rule of law and consitutionalization
- Politicization and contestation
Honours and Awards
- 1995-1996: Summer Institute on the Political Economy of European Integration Co-Director together with Professor Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley) awarded by the German American Academic Council
- 1999: Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Norwegian Academy of Social Sciences, Oslo
- 2002: Major Reward by German Research Association (Collaborative Research Center "Transformation of the State"
- 2003: Sparkasse Bremen Award for Innovative Cooperation Projects among the Bremen Universities
- 2004: Offer for a Directorate at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies (rejected)
- 2007: Honorary Member of the CRC 597, University of Bremen
- 2008- Full Member of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- 2010- First Honorary Fellow, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
- 2010- Visiting Senior Fellow London School of Economics of the study ‘Global Governance at the School’
