Carlo Masala

Carlo Masala
Masala in 2023
Born	(1968-03-27) 27 March 1968 (age 57) Cologne, West Germany
Alma mater	University of Cologne
Known for	Podcast Sicherheitshalber
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Institutions	Bundeswehr University Munich

Carlo Masala (born 27 March 1968) ^[1] is a German political scientist, lecturer and researcher. He is currently professor of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lecturer at the University of Munich, ^{[2] [3]} and lecturer as well as member of the senate of the Munich School of Political Science. ^[4] He has become known to a wider audience through frequent appearances on German television as an expert on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ^[1] publishing predictions and hypotheticals on future military operations, like the Narva scenario ^[5] , which has also been suggested by other analysts ^[6] .

Early life

Masala was born in 1968 in Cologne to an Austrian mother and an Italian father. ^[1] He grew up as an Italian in Germany in the Cologne district of Chorweiler, first in Seeberg and later in Pesch. As a child, he also lived for a few years in Sardinia. During his childhood and youth in Germany, Masala experienced racist exclusion, especially from classmates and local police officers.

Masala speaks fluent German, Italian, and English, and has a knowledge of the Sardinian language. ^{[7] [8]}

Education

From 1988 to 1992, Masala studied political science as well as German studies and Romance studies at the main universities of Cologne and Bonn. After completing his master's degree, he began work as a researcher in Cologne. In 1996 he earned his PhD from the Institute for Political Sciences and European Issues; his doctoral thesis focused on German-Italian relations. In 2002 he was awarded the post-doctoral Habilitation, the highest academic degree in German-speaking countries, in the field of political science. ^[9]

Career

In 2003 Masala was temporarily employed as a professor at the University of Munich. In 2004 he moved to the NATO Defence College in Rome, where he was an assistant director of research in 2006–2007. In July 2007 Masala was named chair of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich. ^[10]

Masala considers himself a neorealist. ^[11] His main research areas are international political theory, security politics, and transatlantic relations.

Other activities

• Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS), member of the Advisory Board (since 2015) ^[12]

Books (Selection)

• Masala, Carlo (2025). Wenn Russland gewinnt: Ein Szenario[If Russia wins: a scenario] (in German) (2nd ed.). Munich: C. H. Beck. ISBN   978-3-406-82448-7.
• —— (2024). Warum die Welt keinen Frieden findet[Why the world does not find peace] (in German). Wien: Brandstätter Verlag. ISBN   978-3-7106-0705-9.
• —— (2023). Bedingt abwehrbereit: Deutschlands Schwäche in der Zeitenwende[Conditionally ready to defend: Germany's weakness in the Zeitenwende ] (in German). Munich: C. H. Beck. ISBN   978-3-406-80039-9.
• —— (2022). Weltunordnung: Die globalen Krisen und die Illusionen des Westens[World disorder: global crises and the illusions of the West] (in German) (6th ed.). Munich: C. H. Beck. ISBN   978-3-406-79325-7.

References

1. Watter, Udo (23 March 2023). "Das Ende des ewigen Friedens" [The end of eternal peace]. SZ (in German). Retrieved 6 April 2025.
2. Member list of the German Society for Political Science "DGFP – Mitglieder M". Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
3. Profile at the Geschwister Scholl Institut of the University of Munich "Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala – Universität München". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
4. "Hochschule für Politik München – Leitung – Gremien". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
5. ""Narwa-Szenario": So stellt sich Militärexperte den russischen Überfall auf die Nato vor" ["Narva scenario": This is how a military expert envisions Russia's attack on NATO]. Focus Online. 24 April 2025. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
6. Catania, Gabriele (18 March 2024). "Ecco quando, e come, potrebbe scoppiare una guerra tra Russia ed Europa". Gli Stati Generali (in Italian). Retrieved 6 December 2025.
7. Anna-Lena Scholz: _Politikwissenschaft: Der Realist._ In: Die Zeit 17. März 2022, S. 31 (German)
8.  "Jagoda Marinic im Gespräch mit Carlo Masala: Freiheit Deluxe" (https://www.hr2.de/programm/literaturland-hessen/freiheit-deluxe--podcast-mit-jagoda-marini--zu-gast-carlo-masala,sondersendung-literatur-216.html Archived 2 June 2023 at the Wayback Machine ) In: Hr2-kultur (German)
9. "Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala". Institut für Politikwissenschaft (in German). Retrieved 25 April 2022.
10. "Internationale Politik". Unibw.de. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
11. Masala, Carlo (2011), Brummer, Klaus; Fröhlich, Stefan (eds.), "Why (Neo-)Realists (Usually) Don't Like Wars" , Zehn Jahre Deutschland in Afghanistan, Sonderheft der Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (in German), Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 253–269, doi:10.1007/978-3-531-94292-6_12, ISBN   978-3-531-94292-6 , retrieved 27 October 2023
12. "Advisory Board". Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS). 10 June 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

External links

• Official website (in German)
• Chair of Prof. Masala, Archive