Experts & Staff

Volker Stanzel

ECFR Alumni · Council Member & Former Senior Advisor to the Asia & China programme

Areas of expertise

International affairs and security policy; German foreign policy; Japanese history, politics and economics, Chinese history, politics and economics; EU relations with East Asia.

Languages

German, English, Chinese and Japanese

Biography

Stanzel is also a Council Member of ECFR, a member of the German-Japanese Forum, a Member of the Board of the Academic Confucius Institute at Goettingen University, and a Member of the Board of the German-Japanese Industrial Cooperation Committee in Dusseldorf.

Volker Stanzel was a Senior Adviser at ECFR from 2014 to 2017

Law of the Sea: China, the EU, and the global order

The stronger China gets, the more important is the question of whether it will be a world power that wields its strength responsibly. The recent ruling against China by a UN arbitration tribunal brings this question into sharp focus.

A war of character

In Europe's war of character against terrorism, level-headed circumspection will serve better than a rush to retaliate and demonise

When America Simply Shrugs

Observations of a vacillating, hesitating superpower does not yet amount to the international community buying into the theory of America’s “decline.”

Shinzo Abe’s new lease of life

Abe's victory in Japan's snap elections gives him the chance to keep the promises that he failed to keep in his previous term

Publications

Articles

Law of the Sea: China, the EU, and the global order

The stronger China gets, the more important is the question of whether it will be a world power that wields its strength responsibly. The recent ruling against China by a UN arbitration tribunal brings this question into sharp focus.

A war of character

In Europe's war of character against terrorism, level-headed circumspection will serve better than a rush to retaliate and demonise

When America Simply Shrugs

Observations of a vacillating, hesitating superpower does not yet amount to the international community buying into the theory of America’s “decline.”

Shinzo Abe’s new lease of life

Abe's victory in Japan's snap elections gives him the chance to keep the promises that he failed to keep in his previous term

Podcasts

In the media