Senior Research Associate

Privatdozent Dr. Asmussen is heading the Conflict & Security cluster at ECMI. He is a historian and political scientist with research focus on state-building, reconciliation, and political developments in Europe and the Middle East. He previously served as Head of Department of International Relations at Girne American University and as Asst. Professor at the Department of History, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. After studying History, Political Science, Sociology and Economic History in Kiel and Copenhagen, he completed his PhD in History in Hamburg. In 2009 he gained his habilitation in Political Science at Kiel University with works on Anglo-American diplomacy during the Cold War and recent international state-building strategies. Dr. Asmussen’s work on minority issues includes topics of interethnic relations in Cyprus, Bosnia, Lebanon, and the German-Danish border region.

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