Carlo Masala

Carlo Masala (born 27 March 1968) and lecturer as well as member of the senate of the Munich School of Political Science. He has become known to a wider audience through frequent appearances on German television as an expert on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has also been suggested by other analysts.

Early life Masala was born in 1968 in Cologne to an Austrian mother and an Italian father. He grew up as an Italian in Germany in the Cologne district of Chorweiler, first in Seeberg and later in Pesch. As a child, he also lived for a few years in Sardinia. During his childhood and youth in Germany, Masala experienced racist exclusion, especially from classmates and local police officers.

Masala speaks fluent German, Italian, and English, and has a knowledge of the Sardinian language.

Education From 1988 to 1992, Masala studied political science as well as German studies and Romance studies at the University of Cologne and the University of Bonn. After completing his master's degree, he began work as a researcher in Cologne. In 1996, he earned his PhD from the Institute for Political Sciences and European Issues; his doctoral thesis focused on German-Italian relations. In 2002, he was awarded the post-doctoral Habilitation, the highest academic degree in German-speaking countries, in the field of political science.

Career In 2003, Masala was temporarily employed as a professor at LMU Munich. In 2004, he moved to the NATO Defence College in Rome, where he was an assistant director of research in 2006–2007. In July 2007, Masala was named chair of international politics at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich.

Masala considers himself a neorealist. His main research areas are international political theory, security politics, and transatlantic relations.

Other activities Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS), member of the Advisory Board (since 2015)

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