Carlo Masala
Carlo Masala (born 27 March 1968) is a German political scientist and professor. He teaches international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lectures at the University of Munich, and serves on the senate of the Munich School of Political Science. He is known to many for his TV appearances as an expert on the war in Ukraine and for making predictions about future military actions, such as the Narva scenario.
Masala was born in Cologne to an Austrian mother and an Italian father. He grew up in Germany as an Italian with roots in the Cologne districts of Seeberg and Pesch, and he also lived for a few years in Sardinia. He faced racism during childhood. He speaks German, Italian, and English, and knows some Sardinian.
Education and career: From 1988 to 1992 he studied political science, German studies, and Romance studies at the University of Cologne and the University of Bonn. He earned a PhD in 1996 on German-Italian relations and completed his habilitation in 2002 in political science. In 2003 he briefly lectured at the University of Munich. In 2004 he moved to the NATO Defence College in Rome and served as assistant director of research from 2006 to 2007. In July 2007 he became chair of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich. He considers himself a neorealist, and his main research areas are international political theory, security policy, and transatlantic relations.
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