Dr Wolfgang PAPE is currently a free writer after recent Fellowships in Seoul and Taipei. During his service in the European Commission over 30 years, including postings as a diplo...view moreDr Wolfgang PAPE is currently a free writer after recent Fellowships in Seoul and Taipei. During his service in the European Commission over 30 years, including postings as a diplomat in Tokyo, he was at EU-HQ in Brussels in charge of the ‘Asia Strategy’ and contributed to the ‘White Paper on Governance’ in the Think Tank of EC President Jacques Delors, following a Fellowship at the Brookings Institution in Wash. DC.
After graduating from High School in Rochester, N.Y. and his Abitur in Kassel (D), he studied law and economics at the universities of Marburg (D) and Genève (CH), researched during two years at Osaka Gaidai (J), Kyoto University (J) and Harvard (USA) for his Dr iuris in Freiburg (D) in 1981. Before joining the EU, he served as Advisor at the Japanese Embassy in Bonn.
His publications in English, German, Japanese and French are ranging from cultural diversity to trade issues and global governance, for which he coined the term of “Omnilateralism.”view less