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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
External Books

Defending Europe? A stocktaking of French and German Visions for European Defense

30 September 2015

The aim of this study consists of taking stock of strategic thinking in France and Germany. More concretely, it intends to identify compatible and incompatible aspects, as well as the potential for compromise, in these national considerations on the future of CSDP and NATO. In so doing, it concentrates on five issues: strategic visions, threat perception and military doctrine; the institutional framework for European defense; military interventions; capabilities as well as the industrial dimension.

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
Editorials

Deploying the Bundeswehr: more transparency, more flexibility, but Parliament’s consent remains key - The Rühe Commission’s final report

17 June 2015

Besides the often invoked historical dimension behind Germany’s strategic culture of restraint, there are today very tangible legal reasons that prevent assertive German military interventionism (which are, of course, directly linked to the historical dimension): any intervention of the German armed forces requires the Bundestag’s consent. 

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

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