Ambassador (ret.) Dr. phil. Volker Stanzel
Executive Board Visiting Fellow
Areas of Expertise
- China
- Japan
- United States
Euro-Atlantic security, transatlantic relations
Short Curriculum vitae
Since 2017 Visiting Professor at the Hertie School of Governance
Since 2016 Member of the Board of the Academic Confucius Institute of the University of Göttingen
2016 Visiting Professor at the Dokkyo-University, Japan
2015 Visiting Professor at the FU Berlin
2014 Visiting Professor at Claremont McKenna College and at the University of California, Santa Cruz
2009–2013 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Japan
2007–2009 Federal Foreign Office; Political Director
2004–2007 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the People's Republic of China
SWP Publications
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European-Taiwanese Relations (Selected Member States of the EU, and the U.K.)
in: Dealing with TaiwanContribution to a Research Paper 2022/RP 09, 09.09.2022, 91 Pages, pp. 70–81
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Rebooting Europe’s China Strategy
Special publication, May 2022, 44 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2022Special01
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Diplomacy and Artificial Intelligence
Reflections on Practical Assistance for Diplomatic Negotiations
SWP Research Paper 2022/RP 01, 20.01.2022, 31 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2022RP01
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Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Six Practical Proposals
in: German Foreign Policy in TransitionContribution to a Research Paper 2021/RP 10, 13.12.2021, 125 Pages, pp. 61–64
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China’s Guided Memory
How Historical Events Are Remembered, Glorified, Reinterpreted, and Kept Quiet
SWP Comment 2020/C 04, 10.02.2020, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2020C04
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Diplomacy: Going Round and Round in Circles?
in: Facets of the North Korea ConflictContribution to a Research Paper 2018/RP 12, 14.12.2018, 85 Pages, pp. 51–56
External publications
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„Diplomats never get angry...
The former German ambassador in Tokio and Beijing, Volker Stanzel, about diplomacy in the world of the jungle.
in: diplo.news, 26.05.2025 -
New Realities in Foreign Affairs
Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Andrássy Studien zur Europaforschung, Band 23, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2019 -
Reinforce the International Liberal Institutional Order
in: Daniel Twining (eds.) Defending a Fraying Order: The Imperative of Closer U.S.-Europe-Japan Cooperation, GMF Asia Policy Paper, 2016/No. 16, pp. 31-35 -
Need Disputes Turn into Armed Conflicts? East Asia’s Maritime Conflicts in a New Environment: Consequences for the European Union
in: European Foreign Affairs Review, Volume 21 (2016), Issue 3/1, pp. 65–79 -
Seventy Years After World War II: German and Japanese Successes and Responsibilities
In: GMF Policy Brief, April 16, 2015 (online)