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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Publications

Germany: The Past that Does not Pass

20 March 2014

Germany’s responsibility in the two global conflicts reflects, among other things, the German military’s desire to free itself from political control and the depth to which the Wehrmacht was immersed into Nazi ideology and a Nazi state whose orders it never really contested.

Hans STARK

Papers

The EU and the Crisis: Do We Need More Integration?

07 December 2011

The European Union is facing a tremendous challenge: coming out of the crisis unified. Every summit is both labeled the one of all hopes and the one of the last chance. Information keeps coming in, which hampers a good comprehension of the situation.

Vivien PERTUSOT Nele Katharina WISSMANN Françoise NICOLAS Hans STARK Philippe MOREAU DEFARGES

External Books