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Barbara

KUNZ

Research Fellow
 

Main research interests

  • current affairs in Germany and French-German relations
  • German foreign and security policy
  • France and Germany in CSDP and NATO
  • Ifri Representative for the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions  
  • the Weimar triangle and Europe's relations with its Eastern neighbors
  • Nordic countries' security policies, notably Sweden's
  • Nordic-Baltic security issues

Barbara Kunz has been research fellow at CERFA since April 2015.

She holds a PhD from Stockholm University/Sweden and a Master's degree from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. Before joining CERFA, she spent several years working for the  Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (Stockholm, Sweden), Bertelsmann Stiftung (Gütersloh, Germany) and Genshagen Foundation (Genshagen close to Berlin, Berlin) respectively. Barbara moreover stayed at the Center for Transatlantic Relations/Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC as well as at the Centre for International Affairs in Warsaw as a visiting fellow.

Languages (for e.g. media requests): English, German, French, Swedish

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Publications
Papers

France, Germany, and the Quest for European Strategic Autonomy: Franco-German Defence Cooperation in A New Era

13 December 2017

How can France and Germany contribute to reaching the goal of European strategic autonomy? This key question has been guiding the work with the present report. In the light of a more demanding security environment, but also a rare momentum for further European integration, Berlin and Paris have to take their security and defense cooperation to the next level, bilaterally as well as in the EU.

Barbara KUNZ
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Kind Words, Cruise Missiles, and Everything in Between. The Use of Power Resources in U.S. Policies towards Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus 1989–2008

02 November 2017

According to realist premises, the United States has an interest in remaining the world's only superpower, thus creating the need to manage and maintain unipolarity. The pursuit of this grand strategy, however, required the U.S. to adapt its various strategies to individual states. Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus have played very different roles.

Barbara KUNZ
Studies

Trump, un an après. Un monde à l'état de nature ?

02 November 2017

In the week following Trump’s election, Ifri published a study to identify the likely changes in U.S. foreign policy. From the outset, this election appeared as a change in the U.S.’ trajectory, with consequences on the power relations and functioning of the international system.

Thomas GOMART Laurence NARDON Marc HECKER Barbara KUNZ Françoise NICOLAS Vivien PERTUSOT Matthieu TARDIS Jean-François BOITTIN

Nordic Countries in the Face of Russian Action in the Baltic and Kaliningrad

20 July 2017

Nordic countries share the same perception, that Russia does not pose an immediate threat but that its actions nevertheless remain worrying. 

Barbara KUNZ
Studies

Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next French President

31 March 2017

France’s current presidential campaign has created an unprecedented situation fuelled by revelations and a total absence of restraint, but it has not truly taken account of the disruptions of the last year: Brexit, the attempted coup in Turkey, the election of Donald Trump, the recapturing of Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad, Xi Jinping’s declarations about “economic globalization”, or the behavior of North Korea. The debate, or rather its absence, can be looked at in two ways.

Thomas GOMART Marc HECKER Alain ANTIL Marie-Claire AOUN Christophe BERTOSSI Corentin BRUSTLEIN Alice EKMAN Sébastien JEAN Tatiana KASTOUÉVA-JEAN Barbara KUNZ Frédéric MONLOUIS-FÉLICITÉ Laurence NARDON Françoise NICOLAS Julien NOCETTI Céline PAJON Michel PÉBEREAU Vivien PERTUSOT Dorothée SCHMID John SEAMAN Hans STARK Matthieu TARDIS
Studies

Sweden's Nato Workaround: Swedish security and defense policy against the backdrop of Russian revisionism

30 November 2015

Russia’s revisionist foreign policy and military build-up has considerable security implications for the Baltic Sea region, including for Sweden.

Barbara KUNZ

Germany's Unnecessary Hegemony

22 September 2014

Based on the realist theory of international relations, this article analyses whether Germany has any incentives to seek (regional) hegemony. It concludes that under the current systemic circumstances – in which the country's survival is ensured by the United States – Germany has no reason to become a hegemon, which is normally a strategy to escape the perils of the anarchic international system. 

Barbara KUNZ
External Publications

After the end of the end of History

01 December 2014

This paper intends to take a step back from current developments in Ukraine in order to analyze the lessons Europeans ought to draw from the crisis that caught many by surprise. Whether the Ukrainian crisis really turns out to be a »game changer« in a structural sense remains to be seen, but it has made clear that Europeans should rethink a number of fundamental assumptions underlying European foreign policy.

Barbara KUNZ
External Articles

Tyskland - stormakt mot sin vilja?

15 July 2015

In this article our research fellow Barbara Kunz summarises the broad outlines of German foreign policy to the Swedish public. 

Barbara KUNZ
External Books

European Security – Challenges at the Societal Level

08 December 2016

Relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated dramatically in recent years. The institutional foundations of cooperative security in Europe and the rules and principles they represent are rapidly disappearing. 

Barbara KUNZ Wolfgang ZELLNER Irina CHERNYKH Alain DELETROZ Frank EVERS Christian NÜNLIST Philip REMLER Oleksiy SEMENIY Andrei ZAGORSKI