Dr. Michael Brzoska

INTERNATIONALES KONVERSIONSZENTRUM BONN
BONN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CONVERSION (BICC) GmbH

 

 

Dr. Michael Brzoska is head of the Research Department at BICC. He studied economics and political science and received an economics degree (Diplom-Volkswirt) a Dr. phil and a habilitation in political science from the University of Hamburg in Germany. He worked at the German Africa Institute and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies, both in Hamburg, and co-directed the Arms Transfer and Production Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Sweden. He later was a lecturer at the Political Science Department in the University of Hamburg.

His special research fields are the arms trade, arms production, peace and defense economics and development policy. He is main editor of BICC’s yearbook, the Conversion Survey. In addition to a number of BICC publications on arms production, military research and development, resource conversion, and sanctions, he has also recently authored articles in international academic journals, such as Journal of Peace Research, Defence and Peace Economics, Global Dialogue and International Journal of Regional Science and several edited volumes.

 
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