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H. Joachim Maître

Picture of H. Joachim Maitre H. Joachim Maître
Department of International Relations Chairman
152 Bay State Road, Room B1
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
(617) 353-9390
(617) 353-9290 fax
yomaitre@bu.edu

Director, Division of Military Education; Director, Center for Defense Journalism; Professor of International Relations and Professor of Journalism. (BA, MA, Bonn University; PhD, McGill University)

Specialization: Security Policy, Strategy, Defense Journalism, International Affairs.

Professor Maître has served in a variety of academic and journalism positions in North America, Europe, and Africa. He has been a lecturer for the University of Nigeria, a foreign correspondent and Editor for Die Welt, Chairman and Associate Professor of German at McGill University, the Editor of Die Welt des Buches, a Press and Olympic Attaché for the Olympic Games of 1976, and editor-in-chief of Die Welt am Sonntag, the Axel Springer Verlag, and the Ullstein Buchverlag. He is a specialist both in security affairs and in reporting on security affairs, and teaches in the College of Communication's Department of Journalism as well as in the Department of International Relations. He is the founder and Director of Boston University's Center for Defense Journalism and is the Editor of the Center's journal, Defense Media Review. He is also the Director of the Division of Military Education, which oversees Boston University's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs.

He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the Philadelphia Society, the PEN American Center, and the Professional Ski Instructors of America.

Professor Maître teaches the following courses:

Reporting Military Affairs (COM JO 545)

Intercultural Communication (IR 531)

Guerrilla Warfare and Terrorism (IR 557)

Aspects of Defense Planning and Technology (IR 583)

Defense Policies of Nations (IR 750)

 

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