Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies College of International and Security Studies
Expertise
NATO, EU, European Security and Defence, NATO-EU Relations, Transatlantic Relations, Arms Control, WMD, Multilateral Diplomacy, German Foreign and Security Policy, Terrorism
Education
Master’s Degree in Political Science, International & Public Law and History, University of Bonn
Background
Secondment to NATO Defence Policy and Planning Division responsible for NATO-Russia defence co-operation and the NATO training initiative.
Secondment to the Council of the European Union, General Secretariat, Directorate-General for External and Politico-Military Affairs, dealing with CFSP/ESDP issues (EU crisis management, relations with third countries and operations and exercises).
Counsellor, German Ministry of Defence, Armed Forces Staff, Politico-Military Affairs and Arms Control Department, inter alia responsible for politico-military relations with Asia-Pacific countries; Federal Security Council, Foreign Affairs Committee and Defence Committee; conceptual issues related to arms exports; studies.
Staff Officer and Deputy Head of Section, NATO Political Affairs Division, dealing with European Security and Defence, NATO-EU, formerly NATO-WEU relations; 1999 Strategic Concept; relations with Asia-Pacific and other issues.
Foreign & Commonwealth Office Scholar at St Antony’s College, Oxford.
Member of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, during the negotiations leading to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Visiting Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, AICGS, Washington D.C.
Volkswagen-Fellow and Assistant to the Director of Studies, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP, Ebenhausen.
National Security Aide to Member of Parliament
Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, IISS, London, and the German Council on Foreign Relations, DGAP, Berlin.
Publications
Fritz Rademacher: The NATO Training Co-operation Initiative, in: NATO Review, Spring 2007 (forthcoming)
Fritz Rademacher, Pol de Witte: Partnerschaft oder Rivalitaet: Ein Blick aus der Praxis, in: Johannes Varwick (Ed.): Die Beziehungen zwischen NATO und EU. Partnerschaft, Konkurrenz, Rivalitaet, Opladen 2005
Co-operation Programs and Security Dialogues by NATO, in: Joachim Krause, Frank Umbach (Eds.): Perspectives of Regional Security Co-operation in Asia-Pacific, Arbeitspapiere zur Internationalen Politik, No. 100, Bonn 1998
Crisis and Conflict Management: A NATO View, in: Security and Regional Order in ASEAN and the Role of External Powers, published by the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies, Inc, Manila 1997
Fritz Rademacher, Wolfgang Butler: Das Chemiewaffenuebereinkommen und die Bundeswehr, in: Europaeische Sicherheit, Vol. 44 (1995) No. 1, pp. 37-39
Stand und Perspektiven des Chemiewaffenuebereinkommens nach der Pariser Zeichnungskonferenz, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP AP 2804, Ebenhausen, July 1993
Fritz Rademacher, Joachim Krause, Joachim Rohde: Ruestungskontrollverifikation in den achtziger Jahren: Konzepte, Strukturen, Perspektiven, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP-IP 2750, Ebenhausen, June 1992
NATO between the Gulf War and Strategic Disentanglement in Europe: An Analytical Report, Fourth Review on Future Tasks of the Alliance, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen, Germany, March 1-3, 1991, prepared by: Fritz Rademacher
Fritz Rademacher, Christoph Hoppe: Das Verifikationsregime des KSE-Vertrages – Wiener Verifikationswunder oder unloesbare Aufgabe, in: Europa-Archiv, No. 7/1991,
Fritz Rademacher, Heinrich Rentmeister: Ruestungskontrollverifikation durch die Westeuropaeische Union (WEU). Methoden, Erfahrungen, Schlussfolgerungen, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP S-359, Ebenhausen, December 1990