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Dr. Christian Mölling

Dr. Christian Mölling


Research Division: International Security
Associate

christian.moelling(at)swp-berlin.org

phone:+49 30 88007-410

Member of the Armament project

2008-2009 Senior Research Fellow, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich

2007 Visiting fellow, Foundation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris

2006 Visiting staff, Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU - military policy unit, Brussels

2006 Visiting Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, London

2006 Visiting Fellow, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris

2005-2009 Doctoral candidate, LMU Munich, (Prof. Daase)

2004-2005 Acad. Advisor, German Institute for Human Rights, Berlin

2000-2004 Research Fellow, Hamburg Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy

Areas of Expertise:

German and EU defence sector; Civilian and military capabilities; Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP);

EU-armed forces; EU-defence policies; Capability development and »comprehensive approaches«;

Land- and naval system


Current focus:

Defence reform; Germany in the EU defence sector; Financial crisis and military capabilities in Germany and the EU

SWP-Papers (selection):

Europe without Defence

The States of Europe Have to Re-evaluate the Interrelationship between Political Sovereignty, Military Effectiveness and Economic...

SWP Comments 2011/C 38, November 2011, 4 Pages
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with Claudia Major

EU Battlegroups: What Contribution to European Defence?

Progress and Prospects of European Rapid Response Forces

SWP Research Paper 2011/RP 08, June 2011, 36 Pages
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Publications (selection):

with Sophie-Charlotte Brune

The Impact of the Financial Crisis on European Defence. Part 1

Study requested by the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Security and Defence

Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union, Directorate B, Policy Department Study carried out within the framework agreement between TEPSA and the European Parliament; Ref.: EP/EXPO/B/SEDE/FWC/2009-01/Lot6/09 Editorial closing date: 23/05/2011. Brussels, April 2011, 63 pages
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with Claudia Major

More Than Wishful Thinking?

EU, UN and NATO and Comprehensive Approaches to Crisis Management

in: J. Koops (ed.) Military Crisis Management and Capacity-Building: The Challenge of Effective Interorganisationalism, in: Studia Diplomatica, 62 (2009) 3, pp. 21-28

Options for an EU regime on intra-Community transfers of defence goods

in: D. Keohane (ed.) Towards a European Defence Market Paris, European Union Institute for Security Studies: Chaillot Paper No. 113, 2008, pp.51-88

The European Armaments Sector: The Need for the State to Adapt

in: Center for Security Studies (CSS), CSS Analyses in Security Policy 31/2008, Zürich 2008

Permanent Structured Cooperation

in: European Parliament (ed.) The Impact of the Lisbon Treaty on ESDP Workshop Summary, European Parliament, Brussels, 2008, pp.9-13

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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