Shoshana Fine has expertise in EU refugee and migration policy with a particular focus on EU relations with third countries. She joined ECFR's Paris office in September 2018, having previously worked as expert for international and European migration projects, including the National Integration Evaluation Mechanism (2016-2018) and the Mediterranean Transit Migration Dialogue (2014). She also lectures on migration and asylum governance at Sciences Po’s Collège Universitaire. She has recently published a book entitled Mobility and Borders in Turkey with Palgrave New York (2018).
Shoshana holds a PhD in political science and international relations from Sciences Po Paris and was visiting scholar at the University of Columbia in 2015. She also holds an MA in European Affairs from Sciences Po and the University of Bath and a BA in Sociology from the University of Sussex.
A roundtable discussion on Asia's rapidly changing geopolitical scene, and in particular the idea of the “free and open Indo-Pacific”. Speakers: James Crabtree, Associate Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School; Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor for The Economist; and Kori Schake, Deputy Director-General at IISS. Chair: Mark Leonard, Director and Co-Founder of ECFR.
Julien Barnes-Dacey - 07 September 2018
Rebels may hold out longer than expected, but there seems little doubt the Assad regime will eventually prevail in the imminent assault on Idlib
Josef Janning - 07 September 2018
ECFR’s new EU28 survey points to a bigger role for Sweden inside the EU – if it can break out of its Nordic comfort zone
Mark Leonard speaks with Mark Schieritz from Die Zeit and ECFR's Sebastian Dullien about a new framework for transatlantic relations. The podcast was recorded on 6 September 2018.
Bookshelf:
Crashed by Adam Tooze
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl
The German barrier to a global euro by Sebastian Dullien
Weg vom Dollar by Mark Schieritz
Es reicht! by Tina Hildebrandt, Kerstin Kohlenberg, Jörg Lau, Mark Schieritz und Michael Thumann
Tarek Megerisi - 06 September 2018
Militias have entered Tripoli, shifting the balance of power inside Libya and hampering the advance towards new elections. European powers need to stop squabbling and grasp the meaning of this new state of affairs
by Tarek Megerisi - 19th July, 2018
The tragedy of Libya in well known in outline but poorly known in detail – to many in Europe, that is. But Europe has a role in the country's stabilisation.
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by Angela Stanzel - 12th July, 2018
China’s priorities are shifting towards the containment of security threats in its region, and Europe should capitalise on this trend.
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by Camille Boullenois, Jiakun Jack Zhang, Melanie Hart, Blaine Johnson, Earl Wang - 20th June, 2018
Four views from our authors on Chinese and Taiwanese views of the roots of Trump's strategy and trade policy, and Chinese blind spots
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by Adam Baron - 12th June, 2018
The northern province can act as a model for the rest of the country, if international actors, including Europe, learn its lessons.
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by Anthony Dworkin, Mark Leonard - 24th May, 2018
The rules-based international order is under threat. The EU should place its defence at the centre of its global strategy.
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Julien Barnes-Dacey - 07 September 2018
Rebels may hold out longer than expected, but there seems little doubt the Assad regime will eventually prevail in the imminent assault on Idlib
Josef Janning - 07 September 2018
ECFR’s new EU28 survey points to a bigger role for Sweden inside the EU – if it can break out of its Nordic comfort zone
Tarek Megerisi - 06 September 2018
Militias have entered Tripoli, shifting the balance of power inside Libya and hampering the advance towards new elections. European powers need to stop squabbling and grasp the meaning of this new state of affairs
Asli Aydıntaşbaş & Ellie Geranmayeh - 06 September 2018
Views on priorities and possible outcomes of the upcoming meeting of the leaders of Iran, Turkey, and Russia from our Iranian and Turkish fellows
Ulrike Esther Franke - 05 September 2018
Germany – and all Europeans – need to get on with agreeing not only the technical rules around lethal autonomous weapons, but also whether we really want to delegate decisions over life and death to machines
Jeremy Shapiro - 05 September 2018
Despite the promises of globalisation, cosmopolitan politics only takes you so far. In an age of nationalism, it is not a good idea to look to outside forces for help with internal problems.
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil & Tara Varma & Nick Witney - 03 September 2018
Only if Europeans resume a serious debate about their responsibilities for their own security
Piotr Buras - 01 September 2018
A roundtable discussion on Asia's rapidly changing geopolitical scene, and in particular the idea of the “free and open Indo-Pacific”. Speakers: James Crabtree, Associate Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School; Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor for The Economist; and Kori Schake, Deputy Director-General at IISS. Chair: Mark Leonard, Director and Co-Founder of ECFR.
Mark Leonard speaks with Mark Schieritz from Die Zeit and ECFR's Sebastian Dullien about a new framework for transatlantic relations. The podcast was recorded on 6 September 2018.
Bookshelf:
Crashed by Adam Tooze
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl
The German barrier to a global euro by Sebastian Dullien
Weg vom Dollar by Mark Schieritz
Es reicht! by Tina Hildebrandt, Kerstin Kohlenberg, Jörg Lau, Mark Schieritz und Michael Thumann
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!
„Sicherheitshalber“ – der Podcast zur sicherheitspolitischen Lage in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt – ist wieder da. In Folge 3 diskutieren Thomas Wiegold, Frank Sauer, Carlo Masala und Ulrike Franke zwei Themen: Erstens, wie ist aktuell die Situation in der bilateralen und multilateralen nuklearen Rüstungskontrolle - und was bedeutet das für die deutsche und europäische Sicherheit?
Zweitens, wie steht es um die europäische Verteidigung und was soll die viel beschworene “strategische Autonomie” Europas eigentlich sein?
Erwähnte und weiterführende Literatur und Dokumente:
Thema 1 - Nukleare Rüstungskontrolle
Hans M. Kristensen & Robert S. Norris (2018) United States nuclear forces, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 74:2, 120-131.
Hans M. Kristensen & Robert S. Norris (2018) Russian nuclear forces, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 74:3, 185-195.
Oliver Meier (2017) Die Zukunft der nuklearen Abrüstung, Rüstungskontrolle und Nichtverbreitung: Was kommt nach Obamas Ordnungsversuch? in: Hanns Maull (Hg.)
Auflösung oder Ablösung? Die internationale Ordnung im Umbruch, S. 35-54.
Oliver Meier (2017) Vereinte Nationen beschließen Atomwaffenverbot. Ein neuer Vertrag spaltet die Staatenwelt, bietet aber auch Chancen zur Abrüstung, SWP-Aktuell 2017/A 54.
Arms Control Wonk Blog & Arms Control Wonk Podcast
Thema 2 - Strategische Autonomie & Europäische Verteidigung
Heiko Maas (2018) Für eine balancierte transatlantische Partnerschaft, Handelsblatt, 22.08.2018.
Auswärtiges Amt (2018) Fünf Punkte für eine neue USA-Strategie.
Nick Witney: Macron and the European Intervention Initiative: Erasmus for soldiers?, ECFR 22 Mai 2018.
Mark Leonard and Susi Dennison speak with Jeremy Heimans about his new book, and the old and new ways to achieve intended effects. The podcast was recorded on 27 July 2018.
Mark Leonard speaks with Bastian Giegerich, Director of Defence and Military Analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, about the three baskets that form strategic autonomy: decision-making, capabilities and defence industrial capacity. The podcast was recorded on 27 July 2018.
Mark Leonard speaks with Francois Godement and Jeremy Shapiro about what kind of leverage Europe can have over America and other great powers. And should Europe behave differently in institutions such as G7 and UN? The podcast was recorded on 26 July 2018.
„Sicherheitshalber“ – der neue Podcast zur sicherheitspolitischen Lage in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt – ist zurück mit Folge 2. Diesmal diskutieren Thomas Wiegold, Frank Sauer, Carlo Masala und Ulrike Franke folgende Themen: Wie steht es mit der Debatte um die Beschaffung bewaffnungsfähiger Drohnen für die Bundeswehr? Was sagt uns die neue “Konzeption der Bundeswehr” (KdB), insbesondere mit Blick auf die deutsche Teilnahme an sog. “Ad-hoc-Koalitionen”? Und zu guter Letzt (Achtung Sommerloch!): Braucht Deutschland Atomwaffen? (Spoiler: nein!)
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Erwähnte Literatur und Dokumente:
Thema 1: Drohnen für die Bundeswehr
Ulrike Franke 2018: Killerroboter? Es geht auch anders, in: Die Zeit, 14. April 2018.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2018-04/kampfdrohnen-luftwaffe-spd-union-debatte
Thomas Wiegold & Kai Biermann 2015: Drohnen: Chancen und Gefahren einer neuen Technik, Ch. Links Verlag.
https://www.amazon.de/Drohnen-Chancen-Gefahren-einer-Technik/dp/3861538180
Grunts in the Sky (20min-Dokumentation zur A-10 Warthog und Luftnahunterstützung), in: https://www.realcleardefense.com/2018/01/05/039grunts_in_the_sky039_299417.html
Beauchamp, Zack, and Julian Savulescu. “Robot Guardians: Teleoperated Combat Vehicles in Humanitarian Military Intervention.” In Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military. Edited by Bradley Jay Strawser, 106–125. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Thema 2: Konzeption der Bundeswehr
Bundesministerium der Verteidigung 2018: Die Konzeption der Bundeswehr
Carlo Masala 2018: Weltunordnung: Die globalen Krisen und das Versagen des Westens, C.H. Beck, 2. Aufl.
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B079T4R5L2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_H0yABbD345674
Thema 3: Deutsche Nuklearwaffen?
Christian Hacke 2018: Der Elefant im Raum, in: Welt am Sonntag. 29.7.2018, S. 4.
Wolfgang Ischinger 2018: Ein atomares Deutschland wäre verhängnisvoll, in: Die Welt. 30.07.2018
Wissenschaftlicher Dienst des Bundestags 2017: Völkerrechtliche Verpflichtungen Deutschlands beim Umgang mit Kernwaffen: Deutsche und europäische Ko-Finanzierung ausländischer Nuklearwaffenpotentiale, Sachstand WD 2 - 3000 - 013/17
https://www.bundestag.de/blob/513080/c9a903735d5ea334181c2f946d2cf8a2/wd-2-013-17-pdf-data.pdf
Gunther Hellmann, Carlo Masala, Frank Sauer und Reinhard Wolf 2016: Deutschland braucht keine Atomwaffen, in: SPIEGEL ONLINE. 11.12.2016
Ulrich Kühn/Tristan Volpe 2017: Keine Atombombe, Bitte. Why Germany Should Not Go Nuclear, in: Foreign Affairs: July/August, 103–112.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/germany/2017-06-13/keine-atombombe-bitte
Maximilian Terhalle, “Fuer eine europäische Atommacht, Frankfurter Allgemeine 13.11.2017 https://twitter.com/IRmt74/status/1024318775045369856
Sauer, Frank 2015: Atomic Anxiety. Deterrence, Taboo and the Non-Use of U.S. Nuclear Weapons, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil quoted by Journal du Dimanche prior the meeting betweeen President Macron and Angela Merkel in Marseille.
Mathieu Duchâtel is quoted by Le Monde regarding Xi Jinping's New Silk Roads.
Tarek Megerisi weighs in on the renewed clashes between rival armed groups in Tripoli
Ulrike Franke urges strategic debate and informed public engagement on artificial intelligence in warfare
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil is quoted by Journal du Dimanche regarding Macron's European agenda.
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil is quoted in the HuffPost on Macron and European elections.
Europe must actively defend its values and set boundaries in Washington, writes Mark Leonard
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil is interviewed by France 24 English to discuss Macron's foreign policy speech to the French ambassadors.
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil participated in Le Débat de France 24 to discuss French foreign policy.