CURRICULUM VITAE Dr. Patrick Keller Angaben zur Person Position: Coordinator Foreign & Security Policy Adress: Klingelhöferstr. 23, 10785 Berlin Raum 319 Telefon: +49 30 26996 3510 Fax: +49 30 26996 3551 E-Mail: patrick.keller@kas.de Work Experience Since Coordinator Foreign & Security Policy, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin, Ger 5/2008 many 12/2003 Assistant Professor ("Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter"), North American Studies Program / Political Science Dept., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, 4/2008 Germany 7/2002 Student Assistant, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Dept. International Cooperation 8/2005 8/2002 Student Assistant, Institute of Political Science, Bonn University 8/2003 12/2002 Research Fellow, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies / Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., USA Education 2003 Promotion zum Dr. phil. mit der Dissertation Das Janusgesicht der PDS: Wähler und 7 / 2007 Ph.D., Bonn University. Thesis: "Wilsonians in Boots: Neoconservatism and American Foreign Policy". Adviser: Prof. Dr. Christian Hacke; 2nd Adviser: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Hilz Summa cum laude (0.0)
2 11/2003 Magister Artium, Bonn University, Political Science, American Literature, and German Literature. Master Thesis: "From Containment to Enlargement: Bill Clinton and the Re-Orientation of American Foreign Policy after the Cold War". Grade Average: 1.0 (= 4.0 GPA) 2001-02 Exchange year at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA. Focus: International Affairs (School of Foreign Service), Graduate Level. Grade Average: 3.89 GPA 1997 Gymnasium Hennef, Abitur: Grade Average 1.6 (~ 3.4 GPA) Honors 10/2008 "Most Promising Leaders under 40". Selected by Capital Magazine List "40 under 40" 7/2007 Best Dissertation of the Year Award. Awarded by the Institute of Political Science, Bonn University 7/2006 Best Academic Teacher Award. Awarded by the Political Science Student Body, & Bonn University 7/2005 3-4/2005 DAAD Scholarship for Ph.D. Candidates. Research Trip (Interviews & Archives) to New York and Washington, D.C. 2001-02 DAAD North America Scholarship. Graduate Level Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Memberships since Youth Atlantic Treaty Association Germany (YATA: Youth Organization of NATO & 2006 The German Atlantic Council): Founding Member and, from 2006 to 2009, Vice President since 2006 since 2006 since 2004 German-Israeli Society German Atlantic Council Salon Neun Elf, Berlin (Political Discussion Group; Founding Member) since Working Group Young Foreign Policy Experts, Konrad Adenauer Foundation 2003 (since 2007 as chairman) Foreign Languages English (fluent), French (basic knowledge), Latin (Latinum certificate)
3 PUBLICATIONS Books From Containment to Enlargement: Bill Clinton and the Re-Orientation of American Foreign Policy, Bonn: Bouvier 2008. Neoconservatism and American Foreign Policy: Ideas, Wars, and Politics from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, Paderborn: Schoeningh 2008. Foreign Policy and Reason of State, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2008, edited with Volker Kronenberg & Jana Puglierin. Essays & Articles: "NATO Summit 2009: A New Strategic Concept at the 60th Birthday?", in: Analysen & Argumente, No. 62/2009, March 2009. "Cautious Optimism: The Next Phase in Transatlantic Relations", in: Central Europe Digest, CEPA, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2009. (Online, in English) "The Smart Power Presidency", in: Internationale Politik, February 2009, pp. 98-101. "Bush Got the Big Things Right. History Will Be Kind to the Forty-Third President", in: The Weekly Standard, January 16, 2009. (Online, in English, with Dustin Dehez) "Tempting Hope? Barack Obama's Foreign Policy in Perspective", in: Die Politische Meinung, January 2009, pp. 28-32. "The Future of NATO. Pondering a New Period in the Alliance's History", in: KAS Auslandsinformationen, December 2008, pp. 45-52. (With Thomas Kunze) "Barack Obama's Foreign Policy: What Can NATO Expect from the Next U.S. President?", in: Research Paper of the NATO Defense College, No. 43, November 2008. (In English) "Americanization", in: Werner Kremp/Wolfgang Tönnesmann (eds.), Encyclopedia of Popular America Images, Trier: WTV 2008, pp. 15-17. "Television", in: Ibid., pp. 37-39. "Nightmares and Dreamscapes: In Spite of Prejudice and Misunderstanding, the German- American Alliance Remains Strong", in: Foreign Policy in Dialogue, Vol. 8, No. 25, October 2008, pp. 40-47. (In English) "The Presidential Candidate's Unknown Foreign Policy Visions", in: Internationale Politik, October 2008, pp. 16-18.
4 "Sarah Palin: America's New Star", in: Frankfurter Neue Presse, September 10, 2008. "U.S. President Needs the Senate", in: Frankfurter Neue Presse, July 31, 2008. "Principled Pragmatism: Germany and NATO Expansion", in: Central Europe Digest, CEPA, Washington, D.C., July 15, 2008. (Online, in English) "In the Wake of the NATO Summit: Opportunities and Limits of NATO Expansion", in: Analysen & Argumente, No. 51, May 2008. (With Thomas Kunze; reprinted in English) "New Sobriety. The Transatlantic Community of Interests", in: Internationales Magazin für Sicherheit, March/April 2008, pp. 4-7. (With Jana Puglierin) "George W. Bush's Foreign Policy in American Rock Music. The Conservative Perspective of Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, and T Bone Burnett", in: Werner Kremp/David Sirakov (eds.), Global Song of the Garden of Freedom. Anglo-American Popular Music and Its Role in U.S. Foreign Policy, Trier: WTV 2008, pp. 135-147. "American Impressions: Comfy Change. Five Lessons from the U.S. Primaries", in: Internationale Politik, March 2008, pp. 102-105. "Hegemony is a Strategy: The Ambition of Global Primacy as a Continuity in American Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War", in: Volker Kronenberg/Jana Puglierin/Patrick Keller, Foreign Policy and Reason of State, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2008, pp. 204-211. "American Impressions: Soul-Searching", in: Internationale Politik, December 2007, pp. 126-129. "Germany and Neoconservatism: A Tragedy of Errors?", in: American Foreign Policy Interests, Vol. 29, No. 4, July/August 2007, pp. 243-256. (In English) "American Impressions: The Crisis of Hegemonic Power", in: Internationale Politik, July/August 2007, pp. 182-185. "The Future of NATO: Between Irrelevance and Overstretch", in: American Foreign Policy Interests, Vol. 29, No. 3, May/June 2007, pp. 207-217. (In English) "Crises in Iraq & Iran: Strategic Developments and Future Options", in: Die Politische Meinung, February 2007, pp. 27-31. "Final Stage of the Bush Era: Effective Leader or Lame Duck?", in: Analysen und Argumente, No. 37/2006, December 2006. Reprinted in: Strategie und Sicherheit, February 2007, pp. 54-55. "Victory without Triumph", Essay about American Congressional Elections, in: Internationale Politik, December 2006, pp. 82-87. "Hegemony: No Change at the Top", in: Y. Magazin der Bundeswehr, November 2006, pp. 90-91.
5 "Transatlanticism: Oceans Apart?", in: Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz Online, August 2006. "Good Friends Won't Be Separated. A Comment on the German-American Relationship", in: die tageszeitung, May 5, 2006, p. 11. (With Jana Puglierin) "Guantanamo: Understanding the Transatlantic Debate", in: Analysen und Argumente, No. 27/2006, April 2006. "Germany's National Interest in Foreign Perspective", Appetizer for the KAF conference 2005. [http:///upload/dokumente/aussenpolitiker/publikationen/appetizerberlin-2005.pdf] (In English) "After the Defeats: The Strategic Debate within the Democratic Party", in: Internationale Politik, June 2005, pp. 106-113. "Beyond Values. Plea for an Interests-Based Transatlantic Partnership", in: Politische Studien, May/June 2005, pp. 36-43. (With Jana Puglierin) Numerous reviews for Das Parlament, Die Politische Meinung, Das Historisch-Politische Buch, Politische Studien and AGIPS. Selected Lectures & Presentations: 2/2009 Gesellschaft für Wehr- und Sicherheitspolitik: "Germany's Role in NATO", Berlin 1/2009 Polish Institute of International Affairs: "A German Perspective on Transatlantic Relations", Warsaw 12/2008 Academics and Practitioners in Dialogue: "New Global Security Challenges", Chemnitz University 11/2008 Gesellschaft für Wehr- und Sicherheitspolitik: "Security Policy in a Multipolar World", Berlin 11/2008 Bundeswehr Youth Officers' Seminar: "President Obama and the Transatlantic Partnership", Strausberg 11/2008 Bucerius Law School Election Party: "Transatlantic Relations under McCain/Obama", Hamburg 10/2008 Gesellschaft für Wehr- und Sicherheitspolitik: "NATO's Russia Policy", Berlin 10/2008 German Atlantic Society: "Prospects of the U.S. Elections", Zweibrücken 9/2008 Adenauer Foundation's Seminar on Public Education: "An Appraisal of NATO Enlargement", Wendgräben
6 9/2008 The Bundeswehr's Strategy Talks at the Castle: "U.S. Elections and Transatlantic Relations", Schwerin 8/2008 U.S. Election Simulation Game at the Evangelical Academy: "Basics of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy", Loccum 8/2008 Atlantic Summer of the Atlantic Academy: "The History of France-NATO Relations", Koblenz 7/2008 Staffers Luncheon at the German Bundestag: "Transatlantic Relations after Bush", Berlin 7/2008 North American Studies Program at Bonn University: "Hillary v Obama: Gender and Race in the Primaries", Bonn 7/2008 German Atlantic Council: "America Votes: The U.S. Elections", Würzburg 6/2008 Conference on International Political Theory: Thinking With(Out) Borders: "A Neoclassical Realist Perspective on US Imperialism", St. Andrews, Scotland 6/2008 Conference on the Bush Administration and Transatlantic Relations: "Transatlantic Relations and the Next President", Regensburg 6/2008 German Society for the United Nations: "U.S. Foreign Policy after Bush", Frankfurt/Main 6/2008 Seminar on the U.S. Elections at the Evangelical Academy: "Future Challenges for U.S. Foreign Policy", Bad Godesberg 6/2008 Delegation of the American Jewish Committee: "U.S. Middle East Policy", Berlin 5/2008 Seminar for Members of the Bundeswehr: "History and Future of Germany's Security Policy", Berlin 4/2008 Conference of Masaryk University and Czech Foreign Ministry: "European Security Priorities and Expectations towards the U.S.", Prague 11/2007 Kassel Talks of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung: "U.S. Elections: Platforms and Personalities", Kassel 8/2007 11th Atlantic Summer: Transatlanticism Oceans Apart?: "Debating NATO s Global Security Strategy", Waldfischbach 6/2007 Transatlantic Summer Academy: "The Neocons Middle East: Transformation Through War?", Bonn (In English) 6/2007 Atlantic Academy: American Popular Music and U.S. Foreign Policy: "Conservative Rock Music and George W. Bush s Foreign Policy", Lambrecht 6/2007 DFG Research Network: The Futures of (European) American Studies: "Analyzing Arnie: Schwarzenegger & Conservatism", Königswinter (In English)
7 3/2007 Seminar for Fellows of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung: "German UN Policy: A Permanent Seat in the Security Council?", Berlin 1/2007 German Society for the United Nations: "The U.S. & the UN: A Strenous Partnership", Frankfurt/Main 11/2006 Seminar for Scholarship Holders at InWEnt ggmbh: "German-American Relations Since 1989/90", Bonn 10/2006 Conference of Young Foreign Policy Experts Group (KAS): "Crisis Regions Iraq and Iran: Developments and Options", Istanbul 5/2006 Middle East-Seminar of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation: "George W. Bush's Iraq Policy", Gummersbach 3/2005 Ethics & Public Policy Center: "Meet a German Neocon Scholar": "The Intellectual Roots of Current U.S. Foreign Policy", Washington, D.C. (In English) 4/2004 HCA Spring Academy 2004 American History, Culture, and Politics: "Neoconservative Foreign Policy from Reagan to Bush", Heidelberg (In English) 2005-07 Regular Lectures in Seminars for Political Education, Academy for International Education, Bonn Selected Topics: "The German Political System", "Current Problems in German Politics" (All in English) Since Regular Lectures in Seminars for Political Education, Schloss Eichholz, Center of 2004 the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Wesseling Selected Topics: "German-American Relations Since 1945", "Basics of American Foreign Policy", "The American Electoral System", "What is Neoconservatism?", "The Foreign Policy of the Christian Democratic Union", "Transatlantic Relations under Helmut Kohl" Interviews since June 2008: June 4 DomRadio Cologne: US Election Campaigns 10 TPV Polish Television: Bush's Visit to Germany 11 DomRadio Cologne: Bush's Visit to Germany 30 Deutsche Welle Radio: US Policy towards Iran July 21 BBC Ukraine: NATO Enlargement 22 TPV Polish Television: Obama's Visit to Berlin 24 T-Online News: Obama's Visit to Berlin 25 DomRadio Cologne: Obama's Visit to Berlin
8 25 Südwest Presse Ulm Newspaper: Obama's Visit to Berlin August 7 DomRadio Cologne: Bush's Human Rights Policy in Asia 27 DomRadio Cologne: Hillary Clinton's Convention Speech 27 Kölnische Rundschau Newspaper: Russia's War in Georgia 29 DomRadio Cologne: Obama's Acceptance Speech 29 n-tv Television: Obama's Acceptance Speech Sept. 3 DomRadio Cologne: Sarah Palin's Candidacy 5 n-tv Television: Republican Convention 26 KAS online: TV Debate McCain-Obama Oct. 2 O Globo, Brazilian Newspaper: The Future of Transatlantic Relations 8 DomRadio Cologne: TV Debate McCain-Obama Nov. 3 Hokkaido Press, Japan: The Future of Transatlantic Relations 4 NDR Radio: US Elections 5 n-tv Television: US Elections 5 RTL Television: US Elections 6 DomRadio Cologne: US Elections Jan. 16 DomRadio Cologne: Bush's Farewell Address 20 SWR Radio: Obama's Inauguration 21 DomRadio Cologne: Obama's Inauguration 21 n-tv Television: Obama's Inauguration 22 MDR Radio: Obama's Foreign Policy Advisers Feb. 3 DomRadio Cologne: Steinmeier's US Visit 18 McClatchy News: Stabilization of Iraq