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Languages: English, French, German
Areas of Expertise: European integration & reform, European Foreign and Security Policy, Germany in Europe
Almut Möller is a senior policy fellow and has been head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations since October 2015. She has published widely on European affairs, foreign and security policy, and Germany's role in the EU, and is a frequent commentator in the German and international media.
Möller started her career in the think tank world at the Centre for Applied Policy Research at LMU University in Munich and then worked as an independent political analyst in London, focussing on EU-Middle East relations. Before joining ECFR she led the Europe programme at the German Council on Foreign Relations. Research fellowships have taken her to Renmin University of China in Beijing, the Al Ahram Center for Political and Security Studies in Cairo and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., where she continues to engage as a non-resident fellow.
Möller is a member of the extended board of Women in International Security (WIIS.de) as well as a member of the Strategic Council of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels. She is also an experienced conference moderator and facilitator.
Almut Möller - 19 October 2015
Iran deal precedent leaves Germany hopeful for political track.
by Almut Möller with case studies by Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Sebastian Dullien & Kadri Liik - 30th May, 2017
In the federal election year, Germans are ready to give new European solutions a strong boost and take more risks
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by Josef Janning, Almut Möller - 13th July, 2016
Berlin does not want to dominate Europe, but to exercise leadership via EU institutions - something that will be essential in a post-Brexit world.
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Almut Möller & Milan Nič - 11 February 2019
Prague and Bratislava can jointly develop a more visible profile within the Visegrad 4 group and counter the overall dominance of Hungary and Poland
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Almut Möller - 18 January 2019
Berlin’s public pronouncements on the risks of Brexit do not yet measure up to the scale of the potential fallout
Almut Möller - 06 December 2018
Finland is an enthusiastic member of the European Union - but it could do with making more links across the continent
Almut Möller - 30 October 2018
Having previously been a strong supporter of European integration, Rome's current dissidence within the EU has led to a dramatic weakening of cohesion between Italy and other EU member states
Almut Möller - 11 October 2018
Having so far ignored the Czech Republic's interest in working with it, Berlin has a chance to help the country join new coalitions
Almut Möller - 27 September 2018
As the economic crisis in Turkey intensifies, Germany should decide whether and how it wants to help
Almut Möller - 24 August 2018
Portugal has at times punched above its weight in modern EU history. But it needs new friends if it is to do so again
Almut Möller - 01 August 2018
New data show who in the EU is disappointed by the UK, and which common interests are worth fighting for pre-Brexit
Anthony Dworkin steps in for Mark Leonard and speaks with Almut Möller, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil and Tom Nuttall about how significant the new treaty of friendship between France and Germany is. The podcast was recorded on the 17 January 2019.
Bookshelf:
Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark
Wir sind ja nicht zum Spaß hier: Reportagen, Satiren und andere Gebrauchstexte by Deniz Yügel
La Faiblesse du vrai: Ce que la post-vérité fait à notre monde commun by Myriam Revault d'Allonnes
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Warnings From Versailles: The Lessons of 1919, a Hundred Years On by Margaret MacMillan
ECFR’s EU28 Survey reveals the interactions, perceptions, and chemistry between the 28 EU member states. This week, Mark Leonard joins Josef Janning, Christoph Klavehn and Almut Möller to discuss findings of the expert poll that will be published in the “EU Coalition Explorer” on Thursday, 30 October 2018.
Bookshelf:
- EU Coalition Explorer (Stay tuned for the new edition on 30 October)
- Country analyses with data from the EU28 Survey by Josef Janning and Almut Möller
- Poems by Tomáš Kafka
- 1815 Waterloo by Thierry Lentz
This podcast was recorded on 25 October.
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Mark Leonard examines the looming Syrian-Russian military action in Idlib in discussion with ECFR experts Asli Aydıntaşbaş, Julien Barnes-Dacey, and Almut Möller. What do Turks and Europeans make of the possible humanitarian and geopolitical consequences?
Bookshelf
The tiger who came to tea by Judith Kerr
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East by David D. Kirkpatrick
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani
Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History by Louis Menand
The podcast was recorded on 12 September.
Mark Leonard speaks with Oksana Antonenko, Director for Global Political risk Analysis at Control Risks, and ECFR Turkey experts Asli Aydintasbas and Almut Moeller about the current crisis in Turkey. The podcast was recorded on 31 August 2018.
Bookshelf:
To Go Forward, Turkey Must Look Back by Daron Acemoglu
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes against Humanity" by Philippe Sands
Podcast "Stimmenfang" - Sachsen, wir müssen reden!
Mark Leonard speaks with Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, Almut Möller and Vessela Tcherneva, about what has changed in French foreign policy with Macron one year in office as French president.
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's offices in Paris, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, and Berlin, Almut Möller, about President Macron’s newly appointed government, his proposals for the Eurozone and the EU and the future of the Franco-German relation.
The podcast was recorded on 17th May 2017 in Berlin.
Bookshelf:
Andre Wilkens, Der diskrete Charme der Bürokratie: Gute Nachrichten aus Europa
Antoine Garapon & Michel Rosenfeld, Démocraties sous stress - Les défis du terrorisme global
L'imaginaire historique d'Emmanuel Macron, a France Culture podcast available here.
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR's senior fellows, Asli Aydintasbas and Almut Moeller on the German-Turkish diplomatic spat, the forthcoming polls and the bigger picture of EU-Turkey relations.
The podcast was recorded on 9 March 2017.
Bookshelf:
Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
Jan Morris, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Ivan Krastev, After Europe
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with journalist and Angela Merkel's official biographer Stefan Kornelius and ECFR fellows Almut Möller and Josef Janning about Merkel's candidacy for her fourth term as German Chancellor. The podcast was recorded on 23 November 2016.
Bookshelf:
Angela Merkel - The Chancellor and her World by Stefan Kornelius
The Passage to Europe by Luuk van Middelaar
Terror overseas: understanding China’s evolving counter-terror strategy by Mathieu Duchâtel
New World Disorder - Old problems - Realist answers by Carlo Masala
Almut Möller comments on the new complicated relationship between Germany and the US in the era Trump.
Wiebke Ewering and Almut Möller are quoted in a 'Novosti' about the European Coaltion Explorer.
Prague Daily Monitor published Almut Möller's Note from Berlin: 'Czechs and Balances: can Berlin shake up the Visegrád group?'.
Despite it's reconcilitory tone, Erdogan's visit exposes tensions between Germany and Turkey reports Almut Möller.
The Spectator quotes Almut Möller on the French perception of the "Alternative für Deutschland".
Almut Möller quoted by Le Monde on national German politics' effect on French European agenda.
Almut Moeller joins 'Stammtisch' to explain what will be keeping the EU busy this autumn
Almut Möller speaks with the SWR2 about the German Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas and transatlantic relations.
In an interview with Deutschlandfunk Kutlur, Almut Möller calls Trump's foreign policy a "frontal assault against the EU".