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Prof. Dr. Volker Perthes

Prof. Dr. Volker Perthes


Executive Board
Director

volker.perthes(at)swp-berlin.org

Twitter: https://twitter.com/volkerperthes

since 1 October 2005 Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Executive Chairman of the Board of SWP

1992-2005 Senior Research Associate at SWP, Head of Middle East and Africa Division up to March 2005

1999 Habilitation, Duisburg University

1991-1993, Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut

1990 PhD, Duisburg University

Areas of Expertise:

German and European Foreign and Security Policy; Transatlantic Relations; Middle East.


Publications (selection):

Europe and the Arab Spring

The European Union and the United States, taken by surprise by the sudden outbreak of the Arab Spring, have had to accept their...

in: "Survival", vol. 53 no. 6, December 2011-January 2012, pp. 73-84 , 12 Pages
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Scientific policy advice and foreign policymaking - Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs

in: Justus Lentsch / Peter Weingart (eds.), The Politics of Scientific Advice, Cambridge University Press, June 2011, pp. 286 - 294
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Turkey's Role in the Middle East: An Outsider's Perspective

Owing to a changing geopolitical environment and a new foreign-policy approach, Turkey's policies towards and role in the Middle...

in: Insight Turkey Vol. 12 / No. 4, October 2010, pp. 1-8
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Ambition and Fear: Iran's foreign Policy and Nuclear Programme

As the West's nuclear dispute with Iran continues to dominate world headlines, it is easy to forget that Iran's relations with...

in: Survival Vol. 52, No. 3, June-July 2010, pp. 95-114
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NATO's Partnership and Beyond (Conclusions)

NATO Strategic Concept Seminar 3, Oslo, 14.01.2010
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In the press:

After 9/11: three dimensions of change

The attacks of 11 September 2001 did not, after all, transform the world. But they did propel the United States into a unilateral...

in: OpenDemocracy.net, 11.09.2011 (online)
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Is Assad capable of reform?

Following the first recent wave of protests in the Syrian city of Dara'a earlier this month, President Bashar al-Assad's office...

in: International Herald Tribune, 31.03.2011, p. 8
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Is Ahmadinejad Now Free to Make a Nuclear Deal?

In Istanbul this week, representatives of Iran and the "5+1" group will resume talks about Iran's nuclear program. No beakthrough...

in: Project Syndicate, 20.01.2011, online
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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