Katharina Konarek
Director of HCGES
Field: Political Science
Topics & Interests: Foreign Policy Analysis, German Political Foundations, European Foreign Policy, Solidarity, EU-MENA Relations
other functions: PhD Candidate
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“Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an economic unit contradicts capitalist development in two ways.”
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Katharina Konarek is the director of the HCGES. Before, she worked as a project manager for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in the Palestinian Territories and in Poland. Mrs. Konarek studied at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute at the Munich Ludwig Maximilian University, Birzeit University in Ramallah, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She graduated in 2008 with a Magister Artium (M.A.) in Political Science and Intercultural Communication. In her Master thesis she analyzed the Palestinian Fatah. Currently she is conducting her PhD at both at the Bundeswehr University of Munich and the University of Haifa. From 2009 to 2012 she held a graduates stipend from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. In her research she is focusing on German foreign policy in the Middle East and the role of the German political foundations in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. In addition she is also working on European foreign policy and Migration.
- The German Political Foundations’ Work between Jerusalem, Ramallah and Tel Aviv. A Kaleidoskope of Different Perspectives, Springer VS 2008.
- The Role of German Political Foundations’ Work in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, in: Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture, 24 (3): 52-58, 2019.
- Israel and its Electoral System, in: Orient-German Journal for Politics, Economics and Culture of the Middle East, 2: 22-28. 2020.
Courses: “European Integration”
What does the future hold for the European Union? Are its founding ideals of
peace and prosperity strong enough to overcome public distrust about further
integration? This questions shall be discussed in eight sessions of four hours each
from 6 until 29 of July during the MA course on “The European Integration –
Challenges and Chances”.
