Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska

Senior Research Fellow
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Vita

Michael Brzoska is Senior Research Fellow at the IFSH. From February 2006 until September 2016, he was Scientific Director of the IFSH and Professor of Political Science at Universität Hamburg. He previously held, amongst others, positions at Bonn International Center of Conversion and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden. He chaired the German Foundation for Peace Research between 2008 and 2015. He studied and received academic degrees in economics and political science, including a PhD with a dissertation on German arms export policy and a habilitation on the subject of “Militarization of the Third World”.  

Research profile

His current projects include the study of the links between weather-related disasters and violent conflicts, the consequences of military spending on human security as well as procurement policies and reform in Germany and Europe. 

  • Climate change and conflict
  • Economic and political sanctions
  • Economic foundations and consequences of military spending
  • International trade in arms
  • German and European arms export policy
  • European Foreign and Security Policy 

Memberships & professional activities

  • Member of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences
  • Associate Senior Fellow at SIPRI 

Selected Publications

  • Brzoska, Michael. 2024. Sources of Inefficiency in the Procurement of Major Weapon Systems. Estimates for the German Case. The Economics of Peace and Security Journal 19 (1): 5-22. DOI: 10.15355/epsj.19.1.5.
  • Brzoska, Michael . 2023. Gerechtigkeit und Frieden. In: Gerechtigkeit im 21. Jahrhundert, edited by Mojib Latif , 53-58. Freiburg im Breisgau : Herder .
  • Brzoska, Michael, Wuyi Omitoogun, Elisabeth Sköns. 2022. The Human Security Case for Rebalancing Military Expenditure. Stockholm: SIPRI. DOI: 10.55163/TMRZ9944.
  • Ide, Tobias, Michael Brzoska, Jonathan F. Donges, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner. 2020. Multi-method evidence for when and how climate-related disasters contribute to armed conflict risk. Global Environmental Change 62: Article 102063. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102063.
  • Brzoska, Michael . 2020. Germany. In: The Economics of the Global Defence Industry, edited by Keith Hartley , Jean Belin , 194-214. London : Routledge .
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