Max Becker, M.A.
EU/Europe Research Assistant
Short Curriculum vitae
Since 2023 Research Assistant, EU/Europe Research Group
2021-2023 Student Research Assistant, Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics, University of Passau
2020-2024 M.A. International Relations, Andrássy University Budapest
2020-2024 M.A. Governance and Public Policy in Multi-level Systems, University of Passau
2016-2020 B.A. International Relations and Social Sciences, University of Erfurt (2019-2020 Semester Abroad, Tallinn University of Technology)
SWP Publications
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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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Third-State Participation in the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy
Opportunities and Conditions for the United Kingdom
Research Division EU/Europe, Working Paper Nr. 02/2025, February 2025, 28 Pages -
Divided But Dangerous: The Fragmented Far-right’s Push for Power in the EU after the 2024 Elections
SWP Comment 2024/C 44, 01.10.2024, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C44
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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
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Geostrategy from the Far Right
How Eurosceptic and Far-right Parties Are Positioning Themselves in Foreign and Security Policy
SWP Comment 2024/C 08, 01.03.2024, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C08
External publications
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A Fluid Parliament: Changes in the Composition of EP Political Groups Ahead and After the 2024 Elections
in: Michael Kaeding, Manuel Müller, Alexander Hoppe (eds), The 2024 European Parliament Elections. The Future of Europe, pp 37–46, Springer Cham, July 2025doi:10.1007/978-3-031-89455-8_4
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Resetting UK-EU defence cooperation: the case for a special partnership
in: UK in a changing Europe, 18.03.2025 -
Germany: A more polarised, politicised, but also potentially more national- focused election campaign
in: European elections 2024. A turning point for EU integration?, CIDOB Monographs no. 88, 05/2024, eds. Carme Colomina, Sophia Russack, Héctor Sánchez Margalef and Ilke Toygur, pp. 69-74