Prof. Dr. Günther Maihold

Prof. Dr. Günther Maihold


Executive Board
Deputy Director (Internationalisation, Evaluation, Methods)

guenther.maihold(at)swp-berlin.org

08/2011–06/2015 on leave to assume the Cátedra Guillermo y Alejandro Humboldt of the DAAD in Mexico.

2011–2014 Member of the Reseach Center "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood" (SFB 700- Free University of Berlin) with the Project Transnational Security Governance in Latin America.

01.06.1999 - 30.06.2004 Director of the Ibero-American Institute, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlin

Areas of Expertise:

Latin America, Spain, Other international organizations, Organized crime


SWP Publications (selection):

Günther Maihold

Colombia’s Peace and Venezuela’s Turmoil

An Emerging Regional Crisis Landscape in South America

SWP Comment 2018/C 12, March 2018, 7 Pages
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Daniel Brombacher, Günther Maihold

Maritime Security in Latin America

in: Stefan Mair (ed.)
Piracy and Maritime Security

Regional characteristics and political, military, legal and economic implications

Contributions to Research Papers 2011/RP 03, March 2011, 94 Pages, S. 49-55
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Daniel Brombacher, Günther Maihold

Cocaine Trafficking to Europe

Options of Supply Control

SWP Research Paper 2009/RP 10, September 2009, 37 Pages
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Günther Maihold

Foreign Policy as Provocation

Rhetoric and Reality in Venezuela's External Relations under Hugo Chávez

SWP Research Paper 2009/RP 01, January 2009, 32 Pages
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Günther Maihold, Claudia Zilla

Latin American Shadowboxing?

FTAA Delays and Challenges for Europe

SWP Comment 2005/C 54, December 2005, 7 Pages
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External Publications (selection):

Günther Maihold

Mexico: A leader in search of like-minded peers

in: International Journal, 2016, Vol. 71(4), 545–562
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Günther Maihold

Intervention by Invitation? Shared Sovereignty in the Fight against Impunity in Guatemala

in: European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (ERLACS) Nr.101/2016, pp.5–31.
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Günther Maihold

Crimen organizado y seguridad en América Latina

in: Política Exterior, Vol. 25, Nº 143, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Drogas y violencia, guerra fracasada), pp. 92-100.
Álvaro Aguillo Fidalgo, Susanne Gratius, Günther Maihold

Alcances, límites y retos de las Cumbres euro-latinamericanas

Insituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos - Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid: Documento de Trabajo IELAT no. 23, febrero 2011, 50 pages
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Günther Maihold

A Format in Search of Substance - An Overview of Relations between the EU and Latin America in a European Perspective

in: Birte Klemm, Niu Haibin (eds.): China, the EU and Latin America : current issues and future cooperation. SIIS, FES [Shanghai], 2011, p.203-219.

SWP Comments

Peter Lintl, Stefan Wolfrum
Israel’s Nation-State Law

Netanyahu Government Lays the Foundations for a Majoritarian System

Andreas Goldthau, Martin Keim, Kirsten Westphal
The Geopolitics of Energy Transformation

Governing the Shift: Transformation Dividends, Systemic Risks and New Uncertainties

SWP Research Papers

Muriel Asseburg, Wolfram Lacher, Mareike Transfeld
Mission Impossible?

UN Mediation in Libya, Syria and Yemen

Johannes Thimm
From Exception to Normalcy

The United States and the War on Terrorism