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Paul

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MAURICE

Secretary General of the Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa), Ifri

Research Interests:

German domestic politics, political parties and electoral geography in Germany
Germany on the world stage
Foreign and Security Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany
French-German relations and of European Integration

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The Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa)

Paul Maurice has been Secretary General of The Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa) since September 2024. He was Head of the Unit for Germany, Alpine and Adriatic Europe at the European Union Direction of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs from September 2022 to August 2024. He was previously a Research Fellow at Cerfa at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) from March 2020 to August 2022, where he worked particularly on issues of German domestic policy and Franco-German relations within the framework of European integration.

Paul Maurice studied contemporary history and international relations at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Freie Universität of Berlin and holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary History (specializing in Germanic worlds) from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 2015. His doctoral research in contemporary history at Sorbonne University, conducted under joint supervision with the Universität des Saarlandes and within the framework of UMR Sirice (Sorbonne, Identities, International Relations, and Civilizations of Europe), focuses on East Germany.

He also teaches at Sciences Po as part of the Master of the School of Public Affairs. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Allemagne d'aujourd'hui.

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Analysis from Paul MAURICE

Publications

Papers

German forces near Camp Marmal during a patrol outside of Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan November 2009

Circumstantial Pacifism: Political Parties and the Participation of the Bundeswehr in Foreign Operations

14 April 2021

In Germany's parliamentary democracy, political parties play an important role in mandating Bundeswehr missions abroad and in overseeing their deployment. The political debate on these deployments is polarized between opponents, who are called “pacifists”, and supporters, who are called “militarists”.

Paul MAURICE

Editorials

Celebration of German reunification outside the Reichstag building in Berlin on the night of October 3, 1990.

Thirty Years after its Reunification, Germany's “European Moment”?

01 October 2020

On October 3, 1990, after forty years of division, Germany once again became one state. Less than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9, 1989, the territories of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) became part of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) under Article 23 of its Basic Law.

Paul MAURICE

Editorials

Coronavirus: Franco-German solidarity put to the test

08 April 2020

While the coronavirus health crisis is currently intensifying in Europe, it does not seem to be affecting France and Germany at the same pace or with the same intensity. The crisis is putting both countries' respective hospital systems to the test in different ways. France and Germany's economies are being mobilized, and social cohesion is enhanced. The crisis also impacting Franco-German and European solidarity.

Paul MAURICE