Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bonn and Senior Researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies. He taught at the Free as well as Humboldt University of Berlin, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Cologne. He has given policy advice to Germany's Chancellery, Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Parliament, as well as the European Parliament, OSCE, NATO, and EU. Heinemann-Grüder's previous books include Sowjetische Politik im arabisch-israelischen Konflikt (Deutsches Orient-Institut 1991), Die Spezialisten (with Ulrich Albrecht and Arend Wellmann; Dietz 1992), Der heterogene Staat (BWV 2000), Federalism Doomed? (Berghahn 2002), Die sowjetische Atombombe (Westfälisches Dampfboot 2002), Föderalismus als Konfliktregelung (Budrich 2011), Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung (co-edited with Isabella Bauer; Budrich 2012), Lehren aus dem Ukrainekonflikt (co-edited with Claudia Crawford and Tim Peters; Budrich 2021), and Osteuropa zwischen Mauerfall und Ukrainekrieg (co-authored with Ulrich Schmid, Angelika Nussberger and Martin Aust; Suhrkamp 2022).