Dr. Barbara Lippert

Dr. Barbara Lippert


Executive Board
Director of Research

barbara.lippert(at)swp-berlin.org

since April 2009 Director of Research in the German Institute for International and Security Affairs of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

1992-2009 Deputy Director of the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin

Managing Editor of the IEP’s quarterly academic journal »integration«

2005-2009 Member of the steering group of the network of excellence EU-CONSENT

Areas of Expertise:

EU enlargement policy and its implications for the political system and policies of the EU; processes of transformation and integration in Central Europe and Eastern Europe; European Neighbourhood Policy and relations with Eastern Europe; Germany and European integration


SWP-Papers (selection):

with Kai-Olaf Lang

The EU and Its Neighbours

A Second Chance to Marry Democratisation and Stability

SWP Comments 2012/C 02, January 2012, 4 Pages

The EU's Enlargement Policy

Ways out of the Impasse

SWP Comments 2009/C 18, August 2009, 4 Pages

Publications (selection):

The big easy?

Growth, differentiation and dynamics of EU-enlargement policy

in: Udo Diedrichs/ Anne Faber/ Funda Tekin/ Gaby Umbach (eds.), Europe reloaded: Differentiation or Fusion?, Baden-Baden 2011, pp. 238-268

The EU Enlargement: In Search of A New Momentum

in: Adam Balcer (ed.) Poland and the Czech Republic: Advocates of the EU Enlargement? Demos Europa - Center for European Strategy, Warsaw 2010, pp.57-76

Wait-and-See Attitudes of German Stakeholders Towards EU-Turkey Relations

in: Nathalie Tocci (ed.) Talking Turkey: Towards a Differentiated Communication Strategy Rome 2008, pp. 135-160
with Gaby Umbach

The Pressure of Europeanisation

From post-communist state administrations to normal players in the EU system

Baden-Baden 2005, 204 p.

European Politics of the Red-Green Government

Deepening and Widening Continued

in: Werner Reuter (ed.) Germany on the road to "normalcy" Policies and Politics of the Red-Green Federal Government (1998-2002) New York 2004 pp. 235-252

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