Public Lectures by Professor Markus Bresinsky
03/05/2013 - 14:00 - 14:00
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Professor Markus Bresinsky, from the University of Regensburg, Germany,
will deliver three public lectures on NATO and political science in
Tallinn University on 5 and 6 March.Programme:5 March11:00-13:00,
auditorium T307 (Terra building)"Comprehensive Operation Planning Procedure
in NATO - an Insight into the Planning Tool of NATO for Complex
Missions"NATO has the capability to deploy troops in a crisis mission on
short notice (up to 30,000 personnel deployed worldwide within a few
weeks). The big challenge in achieving this capability is the need to
foresee a crisis, synchronizing the political and military decision-making
to deploy, and developing a comprehensive plan for an agreed mission. Due
to the fact that modern conflicts in most cases are not conventional
warfare, but rather wars within a civil-military environment with so-called
asymmetric aspects, NATO needs to develop plans with a comprehensive
approach, e.g. political, military, economic and social aspects as well as
information and infrastructure have to be incorporated in the planning and
the synchronization with other GO and NGO agencies.This lecture will
explain the steps of the Comprehensive Operation Planning Procedure of NATO
and will give the students the opportunity to develop their own small plan
in groups. The results of the work in groups can be discussed in the
follow-up session "Scenario Technique".14:00-16:00, auditorium T307 (Terra
building)"Scenario Technique, Modelling and Simulation in Political Science
and Political Counselling"Scenarios are a valuable tool in decision support
and strategic policy. Students will be introduced to the scenario technique
and will be tasked to develop their own scenarios for a topic of their own
choice. For those who took part in the COPD session, there will be an
opportunity to present their operation plans and develop scenarios for some
details of their plan.6 March14:00-16:00, auditorium S235 (Silva
building)"Human Factors in the Security Policy Domain – the Logic of
Failure in Decision-making"There are a lot of different theories in
political science to explain decision-making and policy making. Some
concentrate on the system level (macro theories), others are more concerned
with the actor level, e.g. game theory, or the processes, e.g. policy
cycle. However, the insights of psychological decision-making theories are
often neglected in the discourse of political science. This is surprising,
since there are valuable insights of cognitive and social psychology into
decision-making. In the interdisciplinary approach of human factors - an
approached rooted at the intersection of cognitive psychology,
organizational psychology, administration science and engineering –
decision-making is seen as a triangle of the human factor, organization,
and technology.
Due to the fact that modern political decision-making is highly complex and
supported by a lot of decision support tools and organizational processes,
the human factors approach is one fruitful approach to understanding how
actors solve complex problems in a risky environment such as security
policy. Students will be presented with an empirical analysis tool of
decision-making and will develop an analysis of decision-making.
About Professor Markus Bresinsky:Professor Bresinsky graduated from the
University of Muenster, Westphalia in 1998 with a degree in Political
Science and earned his PhD in the same subject. His research topics are
decision-making processes in crisis and conflict situations. He has been an
Associate Research Fellow at the Social Science Centre in Berlin. In 2003
he joined a defence and security consulting company where he worked as a
programme manager. He was assigned to work as an adviser for German federal
ministries in security studies and managed a team of six interdisciplinary
specialists in field missions, e.g. Afghanistan. In 2008 the German
Chancellery invited him to join the six-month full-time study programme
“Security Policy” at the Federal College for Security Studies in
Berlin. In 2010, he became Professor of International Politics and Social
Science at Regensburg University of Applied Science and a study adviser for
the International Relations and Management BA programme.Professor Bresinsky
is visiting Tallinn University as a guest of the Tallinn University
Institute of Political Science. His visit to Tallinn University takes place
in the framework of the ERAMSUS teaching staff mobility programme.
will deliver three public lectures on NATO and political science in
Tallinn University on 5 and 6 March.Programme:5 March11:00-13:00,
auditorium T307 (Terra building)"Comprehensive Operation Planning Procedure
in NATO - an Insight into the Planning Tool of NATO for Complex
Missions"NATO has the capability to deploy troops in a crisis mission on
short notice (up to 30,000 personnel deployed worldwide within a few
weeks). The big challenge in achieving this capability is the need to
foresee a crisis, synchronizing the political and military decision-making
to deploy, and developing a comprehensive plan for an agreed mission. Due
to the fact that modern conflicts in most cases are not conventional
warfare, but rather wars within a civil-military environment with so-called
asymmetric aspects, NATO needs to develop plans with a comprehensive
approach, e.g. political, military, economic and social aspects as well as
information and infrastructure have to be incorporated in the planning and
the synchronization with other GO and NGO agencies.This lecture will
explain the steps of the Comprehensive Operation Planning Procedure of NATO
and will give the students the opportunity to develop their own small plan
in groups. The results of the work in groups can be discussed in the
follow-up session "Scenario Technique".14:00-16:00, auditorium T307 (Terra
building)"Scenario Technique, Modelling and Simulation in Political Science
and Political Counselling"Scenarios are a valuable tool in decision support
and strategic policy. Students will be introduced to the scenario technique
and will be tasked to develop their own scenarios for a topic of their own
choice. For those who took part in the COPD session, there will be an
opportunity to present their operation plans and develop scenarios for some
details of their plan.6 March14:00-16:00, auditorium S235 (Silva
building)"Human Factors in the Security Policy Domain – the Logic of
Failure in Decision-making"There are a lot of different theories in
political science to explain decision-making and policy making. Some
concentrate on the system level (macro theories), others are more concerned
with the actor level, e.g. game theory, or the processes, e.g. policy
cycle. However, the insights of psychological decision-making theories are
often neglected in the discourse of political science. This is surprising,
since there are valuable insights of cognitive and social psychology into
decision-making. In the interdisciplinary approach of human factors - an
approached rooted at the intersection of cognitive psychology,
organizational psychology, administration science and engineering –
decision-making is seen as a triangle of the human factor, organization,
and technology.
Due to the fact that modern political decision-making is highly complex and
supported by a lot of decision support tools and organizational processes,
the human factors approach is one fruitful approach to understanding how
actors solve complex problems in a risky environment such as security
policy. Students will be presented with an empirical analysis tool of
decision-making and will develop an analysis of decision-making.
About Professor Markus Bresinsky:Professor Bresinsky graduated from the
University of Muenster, Westphalia in 1998 with a degree in Political
Science and earned his PhD in the same subject. His research topics are
decision-making processes in crisis and conflict situations. He has been an
Associate Research Fellow at the Social Science Centre in Berlin. In 2003
he joined a defence and security consulting company where he worked as a
programme manager. He was assigned to work as an adviser for German federal
ministries in security studies and managed a team of six interdisciplinary
specialists in field missions, e.g. Afghanistan. In 2008 the German
Chancellery invited him to join the six-month full-time study programme
“Security Policy” at the Federal College for Security Studies in
Berlin. In 2010, he became Professor of International Politics and Social
Science at Regensburg University of Applied Science and a study adviser for
the International Relations and Management BA programme.Professor Bresinsky
is visiting Tallinn University as a guest of the Tallinn University
Institute of Political Science. His visit to Tallinn University takes place
in the framework of the ERAMSUS teaching staff mobility programme.