Herfried Münkler
German political scientist · Germany · On the map · Academics · Born 1951 · age 75
Herfried Münkler is a German political scientist. He is a Professor of Political Theory at Humboldt University in Berlin.
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Münkler is a regular commentator on global affairs in the German-language media and author of numerous books on the history of political ideas, on state-building and on the theory of war, such as "Machiavelli" (1982), "Gewalt und Ordnung" (1992), "The New Wars" and "Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the United States". In 2009 Münkler was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category "Non-fiction" for Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen.
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