Peter W. Schulze, Prof. h.c. Dr., is private lecturer of Political Sciences, International Relations and Russian Studies at Georg August University of Goettingen .He is supervisor for the Euroculture modules „Construction of Europe” and ”Europe in the wider world: Russia”. Peter Schulze was senior Research Fellow of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Bonn (1981-83), a head of West Coast research office of Friedrich Ebert Foundation and visiting professor at UC Berkeley, CAL/USA. He was also Director of the FES in the Russian Federation and is Honorary Professor of University Rostov-on-the Don, Russian Federation. He published numerous works on topics related to international relations, the East-West conflict and the social, political and foreign policy of the Russian Federation, as well as Russian- European relations.