Trump-Proofing Europe
How the Continent Can Prepare for American Abandonment Our article in Foreign Affairs Our article in German Council on Foreign Relations...
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Germany’s Support of Israel Needs to Lead to Strategic Action
comment for DGAP The brutal terrorist attack of Hamas on Israel has shocked Germany. Attacks against civilians are never justified. All political parties, except for those on the extreme Right and Left, have issued stron...
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Ouvrir un autre espace transatlantique : pourquoi l’accord UE-Mercosur est clef
l’article dans Le Grand Continent also available in Spanish...
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China-Strategie: das Mercosurabkommen abschließen
Gastbeitrag in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Dieser Artikel ist erstmal als Gastbeitrag in der FAZ am 10. Juli 2023 erschienen. Sie können den vollen Text hier lesen. ...
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Russia’s War Economy and the Impact of Sanctions on Military Production
Oped published in Internationale Politik Quarterly, Die Welt, Corriere della Serra, Le Monde, Helsingin Sanomat One year after February 24, the date of Russia’s brutal and massive attack on Ukraine, the war does not seem...
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Kein Despot kann Wind und Sonne abschalten aber neue Abhängigkeiten müssen gemanagt werden
Russland und China offenbaren unser Erpressungspotenzial. Erneuerbare Energien können es verringern – auch in der Bundeswehr. Denn Energiepolitik ist Sicherheitspolitik. Ein Gastbeitrag im Tagesspiegel. Russlands Angriff...
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Managing Risks in the EU-China Economic Relationship
As the German Chancellor heads to Beijing – the first visit by a G7 leader since the pandemic began, Germany and the EU must reevaluate their approach to China, especially after the recent Communist Party Congress furthe...
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Scholz must send a clear message on his visit to Beijing
My column in the Financial Times is here...
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Warum die Russland Sanktionen wirken
Mein Artikel in der Internationalen Polik, Internationale Politik, Nov/Dez 2022, pp 66-69. (link)....
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Germany’s Fear of Russian Gas Squeeze is Misplaced
My Financial Times letter. The Ukrainian economist Oleg Ustenko is right in highlighting that energy sanctions against Russia are not working. What is worse, they may have even helped fill Putin’s coffers. Russia is the ...
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