Dr. phil. Sabine Fischer
Eastern Europe, Eurasia Senior Fellow
Areas of Expertise
- Russian Federation
- Civil wars
Foreign and security policy of Russia, EU-Russia relations, unsolved conflicts in EU's Eastern Neighbourhood, regional relations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Working GroupsShort Curriculum Vitae
Since 05/2021 Senior Fellow, Research Division Eastern Europe and Eurasia, SWP
Since 2021 Executive Board/Vice President, since 2014 Member of the Board, German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
2018–2021 Team Leader, Project “Public Diplomacy. EU and Russia”, Goethe Institute Moscow
Since 2017 Member of the Advisory Board, Russland-Analysen
05/2015 Visiting Fellow, Carnegie Moscow Center
2012–2018 Head, Research Division Eastern Europe and Eurasia, SWP
2007–2012 Senior Research Fellow, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris
1997–2006 SWP, Institute for East European Studies at the Free University of Berlin, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
SWP Publications
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Russia Policy Without, With or Against the US? What Works and What Doesn’t
in: With, Without, Against Washington: Redefining Europe’s Relations With the United StatesContribution to a Research Paper 2026/RP 05, 27.03.2026, 81 Pages, pp. 27–30
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‘Everything about Ukraine without Ukraine’
Peace Negotiations in Trump’s Brave New World
SWP Comment 2025/C 14, 10.04.2025, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2025C14
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Significant and Sound: US Medium-Range Missiles in Germany
SWP Comment 2024/C 30, 29.07.2024, 4 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C30
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Putin’s “Re-election”
An Undemocratic, Authoritarian Plebiscite
SWP Comment 2024/C 09, 13.03.2024, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C09
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Diplomacy in the Context of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Continuation of war by other means
SWP Comment 2023/C 53, 13.11.2023, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2023C53
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Russian Federation: No Sustainable Development in Wartime
in: Country-level Politics around the SDGsContribution to a Research Paper 2023/RP 07, 10.07.2023, 75 Pages, pp. 51–55
External publications
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Epistemic Communities in EU–Russia Relations: A Dialogue of the Deaf?
in: Romanova T., David M. (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of EU–Russia Relations: Structures, Actors, Issues, Routledge, London 2021, 335–344, 10 Pagesdoi:10.4324/9781351006262-35
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2021: Another Sad Year for EU–Russia Relations
in: Carnegie Moscow Center, 19.02.2021 -
Dimensions and Trajectories of Russian Foreign Policy
in: IAI Papers 20/08, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), April 2020, 1–14, 14 Pages -
Alternative Futures of EU–Russia Relations in 2030
EUREN Report 2, November 2020, 1–20, 20 Pages -
What Russia Doesn’t Get about Germany
in: Carnegie Moscow Center, 23.09.2020 -
Selective Engagement between the EU and Russia
EUREN Report 1, October 2018, 1–10, 10 Pages