Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn

Since 2004   
Director of the research unit “Transnational Conflicts and International Institution” at the WZB (Social Science Research Center Berlin) and Professor of International Relations at the Free University Berlin

2004 - 2009
Founding Dean of the Hertie School of Governance

2008
Co-Founder and Board Member of the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, FU Berlin, Hertie School of Governance and WZB

2002 - 2004
Director of the CRC 597 "Transformations of the State" at the University of Bremen

2001 - 2003
Director of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bremen

2001 - 2003
Co-founder and Board Member of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen

1997 - 2000
Director of the Centre for European Law and Policy, Bremen

Since 1993
Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Bremen

1993 - 1996
Director of the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS)

1991
Doctoral Thesis entitled "Spieltheorie, Funktionalismus und internationale Politik" submitted to the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Tübingen ("summa cum laude")

• Zürn, Michael/Walter-Drop, Gregor (2011): "Democracy and Representation beyond the Nation State". In: Sonia Alonso/John Keane/Wolfgang Merkel (Eds.): The Future of Representative Democracy. Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press, S. 258-281
• Zürn, Michael (2011): "Vier Modelle einer globalen Ordnung in kosmopolitischer Absicht". In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Jg. 52, H. 1, S. 78-118.
• Enderlein, Henrik/Wälti, Sonja/Zürn, Michael (Eds.) (2010): Handbook on Multi-Level Governance. Elgar Original Reference. Cheltenham u.a.: Edward Elgar, X, 504 S.
• Zürn, Michael/Stephen, Matthew (2010): "The View of Old and New Powers on the Legitimacy of International Institutions". In: Politics, Vol. 30, No. Suppl. s1, S. 91-101.
• Schuppert, Gunnar Folke/Merkel, Wolfgang/Nolte, Georg/Zürn, Michael (Hg.) (2010): Der Rechtsstaat unter Bewährungsdruck. Schriften zur Governance-Forschung, Bd. 20. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 105 S.