Prénom de l'expert

Hans

Nom de l'expert

STARK

Advisor, Study Committee on French-German Relations (Cerfa), Ifri

Research Areas:

Contemporary Germany: Domestic and foreign policy
French-German relations: Questions of security, European construction
European integration: History of European Integration, Common Foreign and Security Policy

The Pariser Platz (Paris Square) on the east side of the Brandenburg Gate at Berlin, Germany

The Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa)

Hans Stark graduated from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (SciencesPo) in 1987, majoring in International Relations and achieving a Diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA) in Soviet and Eastern European Studies in 1990. He holds a PhD in political sciences from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University (2001) that focused on German European politics. In 2011 he obtained his habilitation at the University of Lille 3 in German Studies.

Since 1991 Hans Stark has been Secretary General of the Study Committee on French-German Relations (Cerfa) at the French Institute for International Relations (ifri) where his main interests are German foreign politics and German European politics. At the same time he teaches at University, first as lecturer at Sciences-Po (since 2002), then as Senior lecturer at the University Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle (2005-2012). In 2012 he was appointed Professor of Contemporary German Civilisation at the University of Paris-Sorbonne.

He is part of the editorial board of the periodicals Politique étrangère and Allemagne d’aujourd’hui and member of the research laboratory SIRICE of the Sorbonne and of the advisory committee at the Genshagen Foundation.

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Analysis from Hans STARK

Publications

Germany: The Power Out of Phase

21 November 2019

Germany has enjoyed a decade of sustained economic growth, benefiting from a very low unemployment rate and considerable trade and budgetary surpluses. This phase is now coming to an end. Some even believe that the German economic model needs to be rethought.

Hans STARK

French Foreign Policy in the Age of Polycrisis

19 November 2019

Under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, France has set itself the goal of strengthening its international presence, being more proactive and defining the European reform agenda. However, the French room for manoeuver is limited.

Hans STARK

Papers

30 ans après la chute du Mur. Une Allemagne unifiée, une population désunie

06 November 2019

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, celebrations have taken a disappointing turn. The electoral successes of the far-right German party AfD (Alternative for Germany (in German: Alternative für Deutschland)) in Saxony, Brandenburg and Thuringia in September and October 2019 reflect growing unease and discontent in the new Länder faced with mitigated outcomes of the unification.

Hans STARK

Papers

Between political crisis and European recovery attempt: German interrogations

03 September 2018

Even though the CDU-CSU led Grand Coalition was renewed following the German legislative elections of 24 September 2017, and even though Angela Merkel was re-elected chancellor a fourth consecutive term, the country has entered a period of growing political uncertainty. The formation of a new government took much longer than after previous elections for a number of different reasons: after negotiations, the liberal party refused to join a coalition with the CDU-CSU and the Green party, the SPD was reluctant to continue in government, and, above all, the internal divisions of the two sister parties CDU et CSU, that nearly caused the fall of the new government three months after its investiture.

Hans STARK

Articles from Politique Etrangère

German Elections: the Day after Tomorrow

05 September 2017

Angela Merkel is gaining thanks to her international standing and the weakness of her Social-Democrat opponent.

Hans STARK

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

Papers

Alternative für Deutschland: What risks for Germany?

30 March 2017

The AfD - Alternative for Germany – founded in opposition to Angela Merkel’s policy line of supporting southern European countries, has quickly become part of the political family of "right-wing populism" in Europe, with whom it cultivates close ties.

Hans STARK

Studies

Le monde selon Trump. Anticiper la nouvelle politique étrangère américaine

16 November 2016

What will become of US foreign policy under Donald Trump? A selection of Ifri researchers has come together to offer their thoughts on this question. Our experts cover an array of topics through 14 contributions, ranging from the future Sino-American relations, through US engagement in the Middle East, to the prospects of a renewed transatlantic relationship. This analysis intends to help readers anticipate the outcomes of this election in order to facilitate decision-making.

Marie-Claire AOUN Christophe BERTOSSI Corentin BRUSTLEIN Alice EKMAN Thomas GOMART Tatiana KASTOUÉVA-JEAN Carole MATHIEU Laurence NARDON Françoise NICOLAS Julien NOCETTI Céline PAJON Vivien PERTUSOT Dorothée SCHMID John SEAMAN Hans STARK Matthieu TARDIS

External Books

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France and Germany - pictures, stereotypes, reflections and the perception of the neighbour in times of crises

01 June 2016

Pictures are an integral part of the process of conveying the state and character of French-German relations. Such pictures highlight not only justified criticisms but also prejudices and clichés. The use of these pictures has intensified since 2008 because the financial and EU crises heightened resentment between the two countries.

Hans STARK Claire DEMESMAY, professeure à la chaire Alfred Grosser de Sciences Po, chercheuse au CERI, et chercheure associée au Centre Marc Bloch à Berlin Christine PÜTZ

From the German Question to the European Question

02 March 2016

Are we returning to “The German Question”, which we thought had been dealt with at unification? Although “The German Question” has deep historical roots, its return is indicative of a European crisis: economic fractures, institutions in deadlock, relative withdrawal of France and the UK on serious Union debates. Only through increased European integration can we expect Germany to regain to a place which it can occupy comfortably.

Hans STARK