Hanns W. Maull is Senior Distinguished Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, Senior Policy Fellow for China's Global Role, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin and Adjunct Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, Bologna. He served on the academic advisory boards of Germany´s two most important foreign policy think tanks, the German Institute for International Security (as Chairman of the board, 2004 - 2012) and the German Council on Foreign Relations. Hanns W. Maull has authored, co-authored and edited more than four dozen books and contributed widely to academic journals in German, English, French, Italian and Japanese, including Foreign Affairs, International Affairs, Politique Etrangère, Europa Archiv, and Chuo Koron.