Dr. Raphael Bossong


Research Division: EU/Europe
Associate

raphael.bossong(at)swp-berlin.org

phone:+49 30 88007-368

2013–2016 Lecturer, Europe University Viadrina

2010–2014 Researchers, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), Hamburg

2008–2010 Research Associate, Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin

2006–2008 Research Assistant, Department for International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1307-5082

Areas of Expertise:

Justice and Home Affairs in the EU, European Union, Crisis management, Terrorism, Migration policy

Current focus on EU counterterrorism policy, border security and effects of the migration crisis on the EU


SWP Publications (selection):

Steffen Angenendt, Nadine Biehler, Raphael Bossong, David Kipp, Anne Koch

The New EU Migration and Asylum Package: Breakthrough or Admission of Defeat?

SWP Comment 2020/C 46, October 2020, 4 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C46

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Raphael Bossong

EU Border Security in a Time of Pandemic

Restoring the Schengen Regime in the Face of Old Conflicts and New Requirements for Public Health

SWP Comment 2020/C 28, June 2020, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C28

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Sinem Adar, Steffen Angenendt, Muriel Asseburg, Raphael Bossong, David Kipp

The Refugee Drama in Syria, Turkey, and Greece

Why a Comprehensive Approach Is Needed

SWP Comment 2020/C 16, April 2020, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C16

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Raphael Bossong

The Expansion of Frontex

Symbolic Measures and Long-term Changes in EU Border Management

SWP Comment 2019/C 47, December 2019, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019C47

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Annegret Bendiek, Raphael Bossong

Shifting Boundaries of the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy

A Challenge to the Rule of Law

SWP Research Paper 2019/RP 12, September 2019, 28 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019RP12

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External Publications (selection):

Raphael Bossong, Mark Rhinard (eds.)

Theorizing Internal Security in the European Union

Oxford University Press, October 2016, 224 pages
Raphael Bossong

The Multidimensional Nature and Dynamic Transformation of European Borders and Internal Security

in: Raphael Bossong, Helena Carrapico (ed.): EU Borders and Shifting Internal Security: Technology, Externalization and Accountability, Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 2016, p. 1-21.
Raphael Bossong

EU cooperation on terrorism prevention and violent radicalization: frustrated ambitions or new forms of EU security governance?

in: Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 27, 2014, p. 66-82.
Raphael Bossong

Public good theory and the ‘added value’ of the EU's anti-terrorism policy

in: European Security, Volume 22, 2013, p.165 -184.
Raphael Bossong

The Evolution of EU Counter-Terrorism: European Security Policy After 9/11

Routledge Chapman & Hall, October 2012, 194 pages.

In the Media/ »Point of View« (selection):

Raphael Bossong

"Right-wing terrorism is a strategic threat"

Discussing the mosque shootings by a white supremacist in New Zealand, terrorism expert Raphael Bossong tells DW it is important to "reorient more resources" from jihadi terrorism, which remained very serious, to right-wing terrorism.

Interview in DW News, 16.03.2019 (Video)
Raphael Bossong

Passenger Name Records – from Canada back to the EU

in: Verfassungsblog, 28.07.2017
Fiona Adamson, Raphael Bossong, Bahadır Kaleağası, Stefan Lehne, John O’Brennan, Marc Pierini, Gianni Riotta, Stephen Szabo, Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti, Nathalie Tocci, Sinan Ülgen, Pierre Vimont

Judy Asks: Is the EU-Turkey Refugee Deal on the Ropes?

A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world

in: Carnegie Europe, 26.07.2017 (online)

Media quotes (selection):

Anne Le Touzé

La mission maritime Sophia privée de bateaux

L'UE a prolongé de six mois la mission qui lutte depuis 2015 contre les passeurs en Méditerranée. Mais plus aucun navire ne sera déployé au large de la Libye pour intercepter les embarcations de migrants.

With quotes from Raphael Bossong, in: DW.com, 27.03.2018

SWP Research Papers

Eckhard Lübkemeier
Standing on Our Own Feet?

Opportunities and Risks of European Self-Defence

Peter Becker
A European Economic Policy in the Making

Success with Modest Means