Holm Arno Leonhardt

[2] Arno became a German expatriate since 1930, moving up the career ladder from accountant to vice director in the branch office of an American paper machine company in Manila.

Brigitte came from a liberal merchant family in Saxony (Germany) holding critical distance to the Nazi regime.

[3] Leonhardt studied politics, sociology, economic theory and public law at the German universities of Göttingen and Hannover.

Already in his study about the European community, he used the inter-governmental rivalry about power potentials (economic, military and political factors) as leading concept.

[9] Particularly for international relations, he gave examples about relevant analytical gaps which other authors had left out of recognition.

In the broad average, the intellectual level of the formerly famous and brilliant German cartel theory had not been maintained.

This dispute led in 2016/17 to a series of five articles by Leonhardt, Roelevink and the three senior scholars Volker Berghahn, Harm Schröter and Martin Shanahan (Univ.