Dr. Sascha Arnautović

AIES Associate Fellow

www.cs-arnautovic.de

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Sascha Arnautović studied political science, English and German language and literature at the University of Cologne, where he graduated in February 2005 before receiving his Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in February 2016.

In 2005, Sascha Arnautović initiated and founded the Cologne Forum for International Relations and Security Policy (KFIBS), a registered association located in Brühl (near Cologne). He has been working as a project manager, chairman and secretary for KFIBS since March 2006. Most recently, he worked as a research assistant for the Bonn Academy for Research and Teaching of Practical Politics (BAPP), which is part of the University of Bonn.

As from January 2018, political scientist Sascha Arnautović will start working as a self-employed person in the consulting and services sector. At the same time, he is an associate fellow at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) with a special focus on the following areas of expertise: British foreign and European policy, German foreign and European policy, transatlantic (security) relations as well as security challenges and security policy in the Western Balkans with a country focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sascha Arnautović has been active in teaching since the summer semester of 2019: He has taught political science at Leuphana University Lüneburg and at the University of Würzburg. In addition, during the 2023/2024 winter semester, he took on teaching assignments at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences in Cologne and at the Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences (HS Bund) in Brühl, Rhineland. In April 2024, he was awarded a teaching position for the spring trimester at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Neubiberg campus), which gave him the opportunity to delve deeply once again into the topic of his doctoral dissertation as part of a three-day intensive seminar. Starting in August 2024, he will once again be teaching at the HS Bund, offering two courses on foreign policy and international law. From the spring semester of 2025 through the winter semester of 2026, he conducted a total of three additional three-day intensive seminars with a political science component at the “studium plus” Center of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. Starting September 1, 2026, he will begin a new teaching position at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia (HSPV NRW) in Duisburg.

From December 2019 till July 2020, he was a member of the enlarged board of the Bonn section of the “Gesellschaft für Sicherheitspolitik” (GSP), a registered association located in Bonn (with a special focus on security policy). As a board member, he was responsible for the coordination of the “Junge GSP” and the media work of the GSP Bonn section. In the meantime, he has been sent to the GSP Cologne/Rhein-Erft District/Euskirchen section, where he has been the section chief since August 2020. Since December 2020, he has been the owner of the content creation agency “Wortaffin,” a small business located in Brühl, Rhineland. He works for “Wortaffin” as an editor and a project manager.