CURRICULUM VITAE

1.     Name and Surname  :   Christian Lekon

2.      Date of Birth              :   20 April 1966

3.      Gender                   :   Male

4.      Education                   :

5.      Akademic Titles: Assist. Prof., Dr., MA

6.      Graduate Theses Supervised

6.1  M.A. Thesis Supervised

‘Democratic Deficits in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq’, Department of International Relations, European University of Lefke, 2009.

‘The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process, 1991 – 2000’, Department of International Relations, European University of Lefke, 2008.

‘Die pakistanische und saudische Afghanistanpolitik seit 1963’ (Pakistani and Saudi Policy Towards Afghanistan Since 1963), Department of History, Hannover University, 2006.

‘Die Rolle der UN im Zypernkonflikt’ (The Role of the UN in the Cypurs Conflict), Department of History, Hannover University, 2005.

6.2  PhD Thesis Supervised

7.      Publications

7.1  Articles Published in SCI/SSCI/SCI Expanded/SSCI Expanded Journals

7.2 Articles Published in Peer Reviewed International Journals

Conference Report: ‘Bildungsportal Welt- und Globalgeschichte’, Loccum, 25 – 26 April 2005, Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 7 (2006), 1.

Conference Report: ‘First European Congress of World and Global History’, Leipzig Üniversitesi, 22 – 25 April 2005, Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 7 (2006), 1.

Book Review: Dietmar Rothermund & Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (ed.), ‘Der Indische Ozean’ (2004), Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 6 (2005), 1.

‘Die anglo-amerikanische Politik und die Ölfirmen im Mittleren Osten, 1901-2004’ (Anglo-American Policy and the Oil Companies in the Middle East, 1901 -2004), Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 5 (2004), 2.

Conference Report: ‘Hot Wars in the Cold War’, Hamburg, 19 – 22 May 2004, Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 5 (2004), 2.

‘Hadhramaut im Migrationssystem des Indischen Ozeans’ (Hadhramaut in the Indian Ocean Migratory System), Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 3 (2002), 1.

7.3 Papers delivered in International Conferences and Printed as Proceedings

7.4 Books and Chapters in Books Published Internationally

‘Economic Crisis and State-Building in Hadhramaut, 1941-1949: The Impact of the Decline of Southeast Asian Remittances’, Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk & Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim (eds.), The Hadhrami Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Identity Maintenance or Assimilation?, Leyden and Boston: Brill, 2009.

‘Der Mittlere Osten seit 1990: Versuch einer Systemanalyse’ (The Middle East Since 1990: Attempt at a Systemic Analysis’, Dariusz Adamczyk (ed.), Quo Vadis Asien? China, Indien, Russland, Mittlerer Osten und Zentralasien im globalen Kontext, Schwalbach: Wochenschau, 2009.

‘Die Briten und Amerikaner im Irak – Imperium, Imperialismus und/oder Hegemonie?’ (The British and Americans in Iraq – Empire, Imperialism and/or Hegemony?), Hans-Heinrich Nolte (ed.), Imperien: Eine vergleichende Studie, Schwalbach: Wochenschau, 2008.

‘The Impact of Remittances on the Economy of Hadhramaut, 1914-1967’, Ulrike Freitag and William G. Clarence-Smith (ed.), Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s, Leyden: Brill, 1997.

7.5 Articles Published in Peer Reviewed National Journals

7.6 Papers Delivered at Conferences

‘Die sieben Saeulen des Empires: Lawrence, Kolonialismus und Konservatismus’ (The Seven Pillars of Empire: Lawrence, Colonialism and Conservatism), Symposium T.E. Lawrence – Genesis of a Myth, Landesmuseum Oldenburg, 2009.

‘Raeumliche und Interpretative Aspekte der Weltgeschichte’ (Spatial and Interpretative Aspects of World History’, Workshop on What Is World Hıstory?, Verein für Geschichte des Weltsystems, Hannover 2009.

‘Non-Governmental Welfare Institutions in British Cyprus, 1878-1960: A Case of Lifeworld Colonialization?’, Conference on Indigenous Charities, Chinese University of Hongkong, 2008.

‘Die USA seit 1990: Hegemonie mit Imperium’ (The USA Since 1990: Hegemony With Empire), Second European Conference of World and Global History, Dresden 2008.

‘Der Mittlere Osten zwischen Irakisierung und Atombombe’ (The Middle East Between Iraqization and Atomic Bomb), Workshop on Eurasia, Verein für die Geschichte des Weltsystems, Hannover 2008.

‘Die Briten und Amerikaner in Irak: Imperium, Imperialismus und/oder Hegemonie’ (The British and Americans in Iraq – Empire, Imperialism and/or Hegemony?), Workshop on Empires, Verein für die Geschichte des Weltsystems, Hannover, 2007.

‘Platonic Guardians: The British and American Occupations of Iraq, 1914-32 and Since 2003’, Middle East Technical University Conference on International Relations, Ankara 2007.

‘Die britischen und amerikanischen Besetzungen Iraks: Hegemoniale Zyklen oder Diskontinuität?’ (The British and American Occupations of Iraq: Hegemonic Cycles or Discontinuity?), First European Conference of World and Global History, Leipzig University, 2005.

‘Economic Crisis and State-Building in Hadhramaut, 1941-1949: The Impact of the Decline of Southeast Asian Remittances’, Conference on Yemeni-Hadramis in Southeast Asia, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, 2005.

7.7 Books and Chapters in Books Published Nationally

8.      Projects Directed and Participated

Research Assistant, Karl-Korsch-Gesamtausgabe (Collected Works of Karl Korsch), Political Science Department, University of Hannover, 1989-1993.

9. Administrative Designations

Head of International Relations Department, European University of Lefke, since 2006.

Director of the Institute of Sciences and Humanities, European University of Lefke, since 2008.

10.  Membership in Scholarly Institutions

Verein für Geschichte des Weltsystems (Association for the History of the World-System).

Freundeskreis der Universität Hannover (Friends of Hannover University).

11.  Honors and Awards

12. Courses Taught