„I was told that I once was the youngest professor in Germany for a time,“ says Michael Zürn about his meteoric entry into the academic world. In 1993, he became professor of international and transnational relations, including peace and conflict research, at the University of Bremen – just two years after he earned his Ph.D. In his mid-thirties, he benefited from the reunification of Germany, he says with a sly smile: „The appointments in the new federal states brought an incredible amount of dynamism into play.“