PD Dr. habil. Annegret Bendiek
Areas of Expertise
- Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
- Digital Policy and Cyber
- EU foreign policy
- European Union
Current focus: Digital geopolitics, EU cyber diplomacy, EU cyber security regulation, EU cyber defense
ProjectsShort Curriculum vitae
Positions at SWP
Since 2005 at SWP
2020 – 2023 Deputy Head of EU/Europe Research Division
2007 – 2013: Deputy Head of the Research Group »EU-External Relations«
Visiting Professorships
1 October 2022 – 30 September 2023: Substitute Professorship »European Integration« and »European Governance« at Osnabrück University
Winter Term 2021/2022: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (NZZ Guest Commentary)
2017 – 2019: Lecturer in the Postgraduate Master of »European Studies«, FU/TU Berlin
Projects
Since March 2022: Head of Project »European Repository of Cyber Incidents« (EuRepoC)
2018 – 2019 Project on AI-based scenario analysis of EU-China relations in digital geopolitics, in cooperation with the Center for the Long View, Deloitte Analytics, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) and Viadrina University (SWP Point of View, SWP Working Paper (German), Contribution to edited volume: Digitale geopolitische Konflikte zwischen der EU und China (German), Video by Deloitte Centre for the Long View: Die Methodik der Szenarioanalyse (German))
2021 Pilot study on the possibilities and limitations of a European cyber incident repository
January 2015 – December 2015: Head of Project »The challenges of digitalization for German Foreign and Security Policy« (SWP Research Paper »Due Diligence in Cyberspace«)
2007 – 2021 annual CFSP Review Conference in cooperation with the Planning Staff of the Federal Foreign Office (CFSP: The Capability-Expectation Gap Revisited, A Critical Perspective on Data Transparency in the Common Foreign and Securi-ty Policy of the European Union)
Secondments to Federal Government
April 2014 – October 2014: Policy Planning Staff, German Federal Foreign Office (IP Analysis »Abschied von der Juniorpartnerschaft«)
Other
Member of the Expert Advisory Board »Europe/Transatlantic« of the Heinrich Böll Foundation for the period of 2024-2027
August 2013 – April 2014: Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and the Transatlantic Academy (Beyond U.S. Hegemony: The Future of a Liberal Order of the Internet)
2003 – 2005: Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Bielefeld (European Integration Online Paper)
SWP Publications
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EU Cyber Posture: Why Cyber Deterrence does not work (yet)
Research Division EU/Europe, Working Paper Nr. 07/2025, August 2025, 20 pages -
Enhancing EU-NATO Cooperation in Preparedness and Critical Infrastructure Protection
Research Division EU/Europe, Working Paper Nr. 06/2025, June 2025, 15 pages -
Strengthening Europe’s Capacity to Act in Foreign and Security Policy
Securitisation Cannot Solve the EU’s Decision-making Trap
SWP Comment 2025/C 17, 17.04.2025, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2025C17
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Cyber Activity Balance 2024: The European Union in Focus
Research Division EU/Europe, Working Paper Nr. 03/2025, February 2025, 11 Pages -
The Attribution Dividend: Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Attacks
SWP Comment 2024/C 46, 09.10.2024, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C46
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Taming National Interests within the CFSP
Europe’s Cyber Foreign and Security Policy as a Test Run
SWP Comment 2024/C 19, 03.05.2024, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C19
External publications
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The EU and the Peaceful Settlement of Cyber Disputes: The Goals, Tools and Normative Framework of EU Cyber Policy
in: The Peaceful Settlement of Inter-State Cyber Disputes, ed.: Nicholas Tsagourias, Russel Buchan and Daniel Franchini, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024, pp. 115-133 -
Hardening Norms and Networks: Europe’s Cyber Defence Posture
in: Intereconomics, Volume 59, Number 4, 2024, pp. 198–203doi:10.2478/ie-2024-0041
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How to Get Rid of Vetoes in EU Foreign and Security Policy?
in: European Foreign Affairs Review, Volume 29, Issue 3 (2024) pp. 227–230 -
Why we need majority decisions for EU foreign and security policy issues
in: Table Europe, Opinion, 05.06.2024 (Pay wall) -
The Brussels Effect, European Regulatory Power and Political Capital: Evidence for Mutually Reinforcing Internal and External Dimensions of the Brussels Effect from the European Digital Policy Debate
in: Digital Society 2, 5 (2023)doi:10.1007/s44206-022-00031-1
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The EU’s Cybersecurity Policy: Building a Resilient Regulatory Framework
in: Gabi Siboni/Limor Ezioni, Cybersecurity and Legal-Regulatory Aspects, Israel: World Scientific Publishing Company, January 2021doi:10.1142/11793