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Staff Profile: Ulrike Guérot

Recent Commentary

• Germany: the beleaguered European island
  23 Sep 11
• Re-kindling Berlin’s love for Brussels
  27 Jun 11
• How European is the new Germany?
  26 Nov 10
• Wie viel Europa darf es sein?
  27 Oct 10
• Happy Birthday, New Germany!
  01 Oct 10

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Recent Blogs

• Germany in Europe: A European game change?
  31 Jan 12
• Germany in Europe: Christmas presents from Merkozy
  13 Dec 11
• Germany in Europe: the politics of disintegration
  10 Nov 11
• Germany in Europe: the € matters in foreign policy
  28 Oct 11
• Germany in Europe: no longer understood
  13 Oct 11

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recent press

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  31 Jan 12
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  30 Jan 12
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  30 Jan 12
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  18 Jan 12

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Ulrike Guérot joined the European Council on Foreign Relations in July 2007 as a Senior Research Fellow and Representative for Germany. Previously she was Senior Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund (2004-2007), and prior to that she headed the European Union unit at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin (2000-2003).

Ulrike has also worked as an Assistant Professor on European studies at Johns Hopkins University, as a Senior Research Fellow at Notre Europe in Paris, and as a staff member of the German Bundestag's Commission on External Affairs.

She has been publishing widely on European and transatlantic issues in various journals and newspapers, and is frequently invited to comment on several EU issues in the media. She has been awarded the prestigious ‘Ordre pour le Merite' for her engagement on European integration.

Areas of expertise: EU integration process; EU institutions; Franco-German relations; EU-US relations.

Languages: German, English, French.

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ECFR publications:

What does Germany think about Europe?, with Jacqueline Hénard (eds), ECFR/36, published June 2011 (also available in German "Was denkt Deutschland?").

The new German Question: How Europe can get the Germany it needs, with Mark Leonard, ECFR policy brief 30, published April 2011 (also available in German "Die neue deutsche Frage: Welches Deutschland braucht Europa?").

How European is the new Germany?, memo, published November 2010 (October 2010 in German)

Re-wiring the US-EU relationship, with Mark Leonard & Daniel Korski, policy memo, published 8 December 2008. 

Other recent publications include:

Eurobonds - was sie sind und warum sie gut sein könnten, Europa Kontrovers -  Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 12/2011.

Ora Berlino riscopre l´euronucleo federale, limes - Rivista Ialiana Di Geopolitica, 6/2011, pp. 123-128.

Il Problema Di Berlino Con l´Europa, limes - Rivista Italiana Di Geopolitica, 4/2011, pp. 29-38.

Germany: the beleaguered European island, openDemocracy, September 9th 2011.

Das neue Europa: Euro-Bonds und Euro-Parlament, Euractiv.de, September 6th 2011.

Gefangen in Kafkas Schloss? Deutschland und die Suche nach Europa, dbb europathemen, September 2011, pp. 17-19.

Welches Deutschland braucht Europa?, EUD konkret, 1/2011, published July 2011.

Vom eigenen Garten zur weltweiten Ressourcenverteilung, with Roland Tichy, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 28-30/2011, pp. 15-20.

Kraftlose Union, Der Freitag, June 10th, p. 2.

Welches Deutschland braucht Europa?, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 6/2011, pp. 93-102.

Übernahme in Verantwortung, Der Freitag, May 19th 2011, p. 7.

European Security in NATO´s Strategy, in : Riccardo  Alcaro & Erik Jones (eds): European Security and the Future of Transatlanctic Relations, April 2011, pp. 55-60.

Europa, nur eine Illusion?, Der Freitag, March 24th 2011, p. 15.

Europas Aschenputtel, Der Freitag, March 3rd 2011, p.2.

Ist Deutschland noch europäisch?, Berliner Republik, vol. 1/2011, pp. 44-47.

La Germania e l´Europa: un rapporto incrinato?, Italianieuropei, 2/2011, pp. 149-154.

Eine Stütze für den Euro, Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 21st 2010, p.2.

Editorial, east - europe and asia strategies, Feb 2010, pp. 4-9.

Europas verpasste Sternstunde, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik,  1/2010, pp. 6-9.

Historische Staffelübergabe in Europa, Internationale Politik, Jan/Feb 2010, pp. 104-107.

After Lisbon, IP Global Edition, Jan/Feb 2010, pp. 40-44.

Auf Deutschland kommt es an, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 29th 2009, p. 10.

Exit Prague, Enter Stockholm - The EU Presidency is too big for small nations, June 29th 2009, SPIEGEL ONLINE international.  

Zu große Verantwortung für die Kleinen, Internationale Politik, June 2009, pp. 68-71.

The German Republic Turns Sixty: Second Spring or Time for the Old People´s Home?, AICGS Transatlantic Perspectives, May 2009.

Europa wie es sinkt und lacht, Internationale Politik, March 2009, pp. 52-59.

Napoleons Nachfolger, Internationale Politik, January 2009, pp. 104-105.

The "state of the art" of the EU, the French presidency and a forecast of future Franco-German cooperation, Romanian Journal of European Affairs (Vol. 8, No. 4), December 2008, pp. 27-34.

Interview on NPR, All Things Considered on transaltantic relations in the wake of the US elections, 11 November 2008.

Does Georgia spell the end of the EU´s soft language?, European Voice, 28 August 2008.

So nah und doch so fern - Nach dem irischen Nein zum europäischen Reformvertrag: Muss die Europäische Union wirklich bürgernäher werden?, Handelsblatt, 1 July 2008.

Getting the Franco-German engine back into gear. Europe´s World, Summer 2008, #9, pp. 99-102.

Perché la Politica europea di vicinato presenta così tante difficoltà?, Italianieuropei 3/2008, pp. 48-57.

Ruppige Gallier: Deutschland und Frankreich streiten sich wieder über Europa. wie schön! Das wird auch der EU gut bekommen. Internationale Politik (IP), No. 6/63, June 2008, pp. 84-91.

Kilka mysli w kwestii Europy i powstawania nowych panstw,  ZNAK monthly (Poland), May 2008, pp. 70-76.

Où en est l´Allemangne, l´essentiel des relations internationales, April-May 2008, pp. 72-75.

Die bessere Weltmacht - Die Europäische Union braucht endlich eine gemeinsame Außenpolitik, fordert der European Council on Foreign Relations. Kulturaustausch No. 1/08, p. 79

Deutschland und Europa: neue Musik oder alte Töne? Notre Europe Studien und Forschungarbeiten No. 55, December 2007.

Werkelei am Gebälk. Nicolas Sarkozy soll neuen Schwung in die europäische Verfassungsdebatte bringen. Doch die Gefahr ist groß, dass Europa sich dabei zurück- statt voranbewegen wird. Financial Times Deutschland, 10 May 2007.

Germany and Europe: A New Tone or Politics as Usual? A Projection of the German EU Presidency. Romanian Journal of Foreign Affairs (Vol. 7, No. 1), April 2007.

Niemcy, Francja I Europa: nowa jako´s´c czy polityka, jaka juz znamy? (policy paper on the Franco-German tandem), Polski Przeglad Dyplomatyczny (Polish Diplomatic Review), No. 1 (35), pp. 19-28, February 2007.

Alors viens, Marianne! Policy paper on the German EU-Presidency and the Franco German relations, Internationale Politik (IP) No. 1/62, January 2007.

Towards a renewed Transatlantic Community; IDEA 6, European Policy Centre, February 2005.

Europas neue Geostrategie (Ulrike Guérot & Andrea Witt), Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (B17/2004).