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Dr Andreas Berns is currently a lecturer at the George C. Marshall Center, European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Patenkirchen (Bavaria). From 2001 to the summer of 2001, he was a researcher at the Bundeswehr Academy for Information and Communication, Strausberg near Berlin. Here he organised and conducted seminars on security policy with a focus on conflict prevention, crisis communication, intercultural communication and ethical education for students at various universities (including the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda and the Catholic University of Eichstätt). From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Berns was a study consultant for constitutional and international law. Prior to that, he worked as a lecturer and research assistant for various educational institutions and parliamentarians (Bonn). Dr Berns' work focused on individual countries and regions of international relations (Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa). His doctoral thesis dealt with the historical examination of conflict perceptions (interaction of the Berlin and Cuban crises, 1961-63), his master's thesis with an aspect of German foreign and security policy in the age of imperialism. After many years of professional activity in the Rhineland and the Berlin area, Dr Berns currently lives in Bavaria; his home is the Lower Rhine.