The U.C.C.S. Center for the Study
of Government and the Individual

Presented

The Uniqueness of the European Union
and its Expansion to the East

By: Dr. Helmut Wagner

DATE:  Tuesday October 8, 2002
PLACE:  U.C.C.S. University Center Room 303 (Theater)
TIME: 6:00 P.M. Reception, 7:00 P.M. Presentation

Professor Helmut Wagner studied history, political science and philosophy. He graduated from the Hochscule für Politik in Berlin and his Ph.D. at the University of Tuebingen, served as assistant to Professor Golo Mann in Stuttgart, and joined the Dept. of Political Sciences at the Free University of Berlin. He retired as Full Professor in 1995. He then served as Guest Professor at Warsaw University, Poland in 1996 and at Nagoya City University in Japan in 1997-98.

His main field of research has been nation building and continent-building, German and Korean reunification and European and worldwide integration. Among his publications are treatises on “Europe and the German Question” (1970), and “The German Question Revisited” (1983), “Korea and Germany: Lessons in Division” (1970), and “The Reunification of Germany: Domestic Issues and International Repercussions” (1992). Studies concerning international relations include “Continentalism as Foreign Policy Doctrine of the U.S.A.  and it’s Historical Analogies in Europe” (1970), “The Continental Drift: What are the Alternatives to NATO? (1983), “Contours of a New World Order: What Will Happen with the Nations Small and Large? (1989), “The Invisible Hands: Who Paid the Bill and Who Made a Bargain in the Asian Financial Meltdown? (1998). Concerning political theory, he has published “The Turn-About of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: (1978), “Strength and Impotence of Utopias” (1994), “Continental Region-Building and its Vindication by Immanuel Kant” (1994), “The European Nation-Building Process: Historical Stages, Pure Types and Political Results” (1997), “Kant’s Reflections on Constitutional Government and Federal Communities of Nations” (1998), and “Continent-Building: The Response of Sovereign Nations to Globalization” (1998).

Professor Wagner has also lectured at universities in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya and Mishima in Japan, at Yale University and at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs in the U.S.A., in Krakow and Warsaw in Poland, as well as in Peking, Seoul, Lima and Nice.