Euro-Atlantic security, transatlantic relations
Since 2017 Visiting Professor at the Hertie School of Governance
Since 2016 Member of the Board of the Academic Confucius Institute of the University of Göttingen
2016 Visiting Professor at the Dokkyo-University, Japan
2015 Visiting Professor at the FU Berlin
2014 Visiting Professor at Claremont McKenna College and at the University of California, Santa Cruz
2009–2013 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Japan
2007–2009 Federal Foreign Office; Political Director
2004–2007 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the People's Republic of China
Contribution to a Research Paper 2022/RP 09, 09.09.2022, 91 Pages, pp. 70–81
doi:10.18449/2022Special01
Reflections on Practical Assistance for Diplomatic Negotiations
doi:10.18449/2022RP01
Contribution to a Research Paper 2021/RP 10, 13.12.2021, 125 Pages, pp. 61–64
How Historical Events Are Remembered, Glorified, Reinterpreted, and Kept Quiet
doi:10.18449/2020C04
Contribution to a Research Paper 2018/RP 12, 14.12.2018, 85 Pages, pp. 51–56
Diplomacy in the 21st Century