Dr. Marco Overhaus
The Americas Senior Associate
Research Division:The Americas Deputy Head of Research Division
Areas of Expertise
- United States
- Nato
- Transatlantic relations
U.S. defense and military policy, transatlantic defense policy, NATO, U.S. security policy in the Middle East, U.S. security policy in the Indo-Pacific
Working GroupsShort Curriculum vitae
Since 2014 Associate, Research Group The Americas, SWP
2015 Desk Officer, Policy Planning Staff and North America-Division (USA, Canada, G7/G8), German Foreign Office, Berlin
2008-2013 Associate, Research Divison EU External Relations, SWP, Berlin
2010 Transatlantic Fellow, RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C.
2009-2010 Transatlantic Fellow, French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), Paris
2002-2008 Research Associate and Project Manager, Chair for International Relations and Foreign Policy, University of Trier, Trier
2001 Diploma Political Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam
1999-2000 Fulbright Fellow, University of California, San Diego
SWP Publications
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Europe and the End of Pax Americana
Transatlantic Relations Must Be Put on a New Footing, Regardless of Who Wins the US Elections
SWP Comment 2024/C 45, 02.10.2024, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C45
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The Biden Administration’s Global Posture Review
Washington Seeks to Expand US Military Presence in Indo-Pacific without Neglecting Europe
SWP Comment 2021/C 59, 20.12.2021, 5 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2021C59
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War everywhere? Why the crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border is not a hybrid attack
The crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border brought about by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko is an attempt to use the suffering of refugees to exert political pressure on the EU and divide it. But this is by no means hybrid warfare, says Marco Overhaus.
Point of View, 19.11.2021 -
A New Beginning with President Biden
Five German and European Priorities for the Transatlantic Agenda
SWP Comment 2020/C 61, 08.12.2020, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2020C61
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A Matter of Credibility
Conventional and Nuclear Security Commitments of the United States in Europe
SWP Research Paper 2019/RP 10, 21.08.2019doi:10.18449/2019RP10
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US security commitments to NATO: Trump is just one factor among others
Obsolete, too expensive, unfair – Donald Trump has repeatedly and harshly criticised the NATO defence alliance. In a new SWP Research Paper, Marco Overhaus addresses the question of how credible the US security commitments to NATO still are and what this means for Europe. An interview with the author.
Point of View, 26.07.2019
External publications
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A world in crisis: Can Europe cope without the US?
Interview von Marco Overhaus, in: Deutsche Welle, 10.10.2024 -
Maximum Pressure and Military Disengagement: The Dilemma of US Policy towards Iran
in: S&F Sicherheit und Frieden, Jahrgang 38 (2020), Heft 2, S. 83 - 87 -
What Divides NATO?
The current debate about the presence of American troops in Poland is sometimes seen as pitting that country against Germany. But this misses the point: What is really at stake is European coherence in the face of the United States’ increasingly uncertain role within NATO.
in: Project Syndicate, 29.08.2019 (online). -
Trump's New Strategy on Iran: Hard Questions for Europe
in: European Leadership Network, 17.10.2017 (online) -
US election: contrasting foreign policy
Marco Overhaus, expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), on the US presidential candidates.
in: DE Magazin Deutschland 3/2016; deutschland.de, 06.10.2016, (online) -
US defence policy under Obama: trajectories in budgets, military deployments and force structures
in: Global Affairs, 2 (2016) 1, pp. 47-55