Dr. rer. pol. Annegret Bendiek

Dr. rer. pol. Annegret Bendiek


Research Division: EU External Relations
Deputy Head of Research Division

annegret.bendiek(at)swp-berlin.org

2003-2005 Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Bielefeld

Areas of Expertise:

The EU as an actor and a structure in international relations; development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and foreign policy instruments of the EU; small states in European security governance; EU-US cooperation; relationships between the EU and third states and international organisations


Current focus:

Strategic partnerships and interregional relations of the EU; justice and home affairs in European foreign and security policy; justice and home affairs issues in transatlantic cooperation; political leadership of the EU-3 (Germany, France and Great Britain) in European foreign and security policy

SWP-Papers (selection):

with Barbara Lippert, with Daniela Schwarzer

State of Play in European Integration

Challenges and Opportunities for German Policy

SWP Research Paper 2011/RP 12, December 2011, 38 Pages
with Ronja Kempin

Europe's Foreign and Security Policy Adrift

Strengthening the Role of the EU-3

SWP Comments 2011/C 39, December 2011, 4 Pages

At the Limits of the Rule of Law: EU-US Counter-Terrorism Cooperation

SWP Research Paper 2011/RP 05, April 2011, 22 Pages
with Anne Schmidt

A European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps

Learning from the Americans

SWP Comments 2010/C 17, June 2010, 4 Pages

EU Foreign Policy Perspectives

A Call for the Revival of the Weimar Triangle

SWP Comments 2008/C 20, October 2008, 8 Pages

Publications (selection):

European Realism in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy

in: Paul James Cardwell (ed.), EU External Relations Law and Policy in the Post-Lisbon Era, The Hague: T.M.C. Asser, 2012, pp. 35-57

A Backbone for Brussels

Overcoming Europe's political deficit toward North Africa and beyond

in: Internationale Politik (IP) - Global Issue, Vol. 12, 9/10, September/October 2011. Also published online as »Seeking a strategy - Overcoming Europe's political deficit toward North Africa and beyond« in: IP-Global, 21.06.2011, (online)
with Heinz Kramer

The EU as 'strategic' international actor

Substantial and analytical ambiguities

in: European Foreign Affairs Review, 15 (November 2010) 4, pp. 452-474

The Potential of the Weimar Triangle for Consensus-Building in EU Foreign Policy

in: CFSP Forum, Vol. 6, No. 6, November 2008, pp. 10-15
with Christian Wagner

Prospects and Challenges of EU-India Security Cooperation

in: Shazia Aziz Wülbers (ed.) EU India relations - A Critique New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2008, pp. 153-168

Working papers (selection):

The ENP

Visibility and Perceptions in the Partner Countries

Working Papers FG 2, 2008/ Nr. 01, January 2008, 18 Pages

SWP Research Papers

Andrea Schmitz, Alexander Wolters
Political Protest in Central Asia

Potentials and Dynamics


Muriel Asseburg
Protest, Revolt and Regime Change in the Arab World

Actors, Challenges, Implications and Policy Options