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Dr. Martin Kahl
Deputy Head of ZEUS, Senior Researcher

Areas of research
Terrorism and anti-terrorism efforts, military strategy, security doctrines and armament control, European Neighbourhood Policy, new security structures in Europe, theories of international relations

Curriculum vitae
Martin Kahl studied Political Science, Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Münster and earned his Dr. phil. with the topic “American nuclear strategy, weapons development and nuclear arms control politics from Kennedy to Bush”. From 1994 to 1997 he was scholarship recipient of the Stiftung Volkswagenwerk with a research project about “Security policies of the Central East European States and the development of a new European security structure”. From 1992 to 2003 he held teaching posts at the Universities of Osnabrück/Vechta, Jena, Giessen and Saarbrücken. From 1999 to 2003 he was researcher at the Institute for Political Science at the University of the Saarland.
He co-heads the project “Justification with the same arguments? - Analysing arguments in favour of restricting human and civil rights under the pretext of combating terrorism in the USA, EU and Russia” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is involved in the projects TERAS INDEX and EUSECON.
Martin Kahl joined the IFSH as a researcher in 2003.


Languages
German, English

Current projects

• EUSECON. A New Agenda for European Security Economics
  
• Justification with the Same Arguments? A Research Towards the Arguments for Restricting the Human and Civil Rights in the Fight for Terrorism in the USA, EU and Russia