Klaus Segbers

Klaus Segbers (born 1954 in Dortmund, West Germany) is a German political scientist and professor for International Relations and East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

From 1990-1995, he joined Germany´s leading think tank on politics, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs at Ebenhausen and in 1992 qualified as professor with a book on systemic change in the Soviet Union.

Segbers is a member of several scientific boards of organizations of international repute including the German Council on Foreign Relations the Gulf Research Center, and the Institute for European Politics.

[1] As both Chair for Political Science at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Professor for International Relations, Segbers’ research interests cover a broad range of topics.

Politics, rather, is happening, as the result of thousands of moves by a multitude of actors on different levels of action.”[2] Segbers suggests that politicians should reduce expectations and not try to function as engineers but as moderators, or as navigators.