Dr. phil. Gudrun Wacker


Research Division: Asia
Senior Fellow

gudrun.wacker(at)swp-berlin.org

since 2018 EU representative at the ASEAN Regional Forum Expert and Eminent Persons (ARF EEP)

since 2013 Member of the Steering Committee of CSCAP EU

1992–2000 Researcher, Federal Institute for Russian, East European and International Studies, Cologne

1983–1992 Researcher, Department for Chinese and Korean Studies, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen

Areas of Expertise:

China, East Asia, Taiwan, Defence and security policy / Armed forces, Maritime security, Political systems


SWP Publications (selection):

Anny Boc, Gudrun Wacker

China: Between Key Role and Marginalisation

in: Hanns Günther Hilpert, Oliver Meier (eds.)
Facets of the North Korea Conflict

Actors, Problems and Europe’s Interests

Contributions to Research Papers 2018/RP 12, December 2018, 85 Pages, S. 27-30
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Alexandra Sakaki, Gudrun Wacker

China – Japan – South Korea

A Tense Ménage à Trois

SWP Research Paper 2017/RP 05, April 2017, 34 Pages
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Hanns Günther Hilpert, Gudrun Wacker

Geoeconomics Meets Geopolitics

China’s New Economic and Foreign Policy Initiatives

SWP Comment 2015/C 33, June 2015, 7 Pages
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Gudrun Wacker

Security Cooperation in East Asia

Structures, Trends and Limitations

SWP Research Paper 2015/RP 04, May 2015, 40 Pages
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External Publications (selection):

Gudrun Wacker

Judy Asks: Is China Devouring Europe?

in: Carnegie Europe, Judy Dempsey’s Strategic Europe, 28.03.2019 (online).
Gudrun Wacker

EU-China Relations: Horizon 2025

in: Eva Pejsova (ed.), ISSReport No.35, Paris: EU Institute for Security Studies, 2017, pp. 91 - 96
Gudrun Wacker

European-Taiwan relations

in: Gunter Schubert (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan, London and New York: Routledge, 2016, pp. 513-528
Gudrun Wacker

The Irreversible Rise. A New Foreign Policy for a Stronger China

in: Alessia Amighini, Axel Berkofsky (eds.), Xi´s Policy Gambles: the Bumpy Road Ahead, ISPI e-book, 2015, pp. 65-77
Gudrun Wacker

Chinese Internal Views of the EU

in: Kerry Brown (ed.), The EU-China Relationship: European Perspectives - A Manual for Policy Makers, London: Imperial College Press, 2015, pp. 3-11

SWP Comments

P. R. Kumaraswamy
India’s New Israel Policy

How the Decline of the Palestinian Issue and Economic Reorientation Accelerate Indo-Israeli Cooperation

Christian Wagner, Siddharth Tripathi
New Connectivity in the Bay of Bengal

Opportunities and Perspectives of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)