Professor at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Laxenburg/Vienna. He often lectures at the Universities of Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Oxford and other American, European, and Asian universities and research institutes He is also a frequent commentator on European and Austrian television, radio, and print media, including CNN Europe and the BBC. He acts as a Special Adviser to the Austrian Ministry of Defense. In 2011, he published Obama and the Bomb: The Vision of a World free of Nuclear Weapons (Peter Lang publisher). He received the Bruno Kreisky Award for most outstanding Political Books: Models of European Security (1998). He holds a Ph.D. in political sciences and communication theory from the University of Salzburg
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