Publications

Dr. phil. Ronja Kempin

Research Division: EU/Europe
Senior Fellow

ronja.kempin(at)swp-berlin.org

phone:+49 30 88007-223

2016 Lecturer at Free University Berlin and Bucerius Law School in Hamburg

2014 Political Advisor, Common Security and Defence Policy Division, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

2010 - 2014 Head of Research Division EU External Relations, SWP

2009 - 2010 Fritz Thyssen Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

2001 - 2002 Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI) and the Institut des Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS) in Paris

1999 - 2000 Research Fellow at the German Bundestag and the party executive of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), International Affairs, Berlin

Areas of Expertise:

France, Germany, Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), Defence and security policy / Armed forces, EU / Europe, EU foreign policy, Populism

SWP Publications (selection):

Markus Kaim, Ronja Kempin

A European Security Council

Added Value for EU Foreign and Security Policy?

SWP Comment 2019/C 02, January 2019, 7 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019C02

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Annegret Bendiek, Ronja Kempin, Nicolai von Ondarza

Qualified Majority Voting and Flexible Integration for a More Effective CFSP?

A Critical Examination of the EU’s Options

SWP Comment 2018/C 25, June 2018, 8 Pages

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Rosa Beckmann, Ronja Kempin

EU Defence Policy Needs Strategy

Time for Political Examination of the CSDP’s Reform Objectives

SWP Comment 2017/C 34, September 2017, 4 Pages

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Ronja Kempin, Ronja Scheler

Joining Forces: Necessary Steps for Developing the Comprehensive Approach

SWP Comment 2016/C 31, May 2016, 7 Pages

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Ronja Kempin, Barbara Lippert

2025 – New European Foreign Ministry Takes Command

in: Lars Brozus (ed.)
Unexpected, Unforeseen, Unplanned

Contributions to Research Papers 2016/RP 01, January 2016, 56 Pages, S. 44-49

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External Publications (selection):

Ronja Kempin, Barbara Kunz

Washington Should Help Europe Achieve ‘Strategic Autonomy,’ Not Fight It

in: War on the Rocks, 12.04.2018

Ronja Kempin, Barbara Kunz

France, Germany, and the Quest for European Strategic Autonomy

Franco-German Defence Cooperation in A New Era

Notes du Cerfa, No.141, Ifri, December 2017

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Ronja Kempin

The Foreign Policy Implications of Financial Crises

in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, October 2017

Ronja Kempin

German Security and Defence Policy after the Elections

in: EU Forum, Clingendael, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, 18.09.2017 (online)

Working Papers of the Research Division (selection):

Ronja Kempin, Barbara Lippert

Membership, neighbourhood, partnership

The EU's foreign policy triptych needs remodelling

Working Paper FG 2, 2013/Nr. 03, August 2013, 12 Pages

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Ronja Kempin, Nicolai von Ondarza, Marco Overhaus

Tackling the big questions in little steps

A process towards a comprehensive EU strategy

Working Paper FG 1, 2012/Nr. 6; FG 2, 2012/Nr. 2, October 2012, 12 Pages

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Stephanie C. Hofmann, Ronja Kempin

France and the Transatlantic Relationship

Love me, love me not...

Working Paper FG 2 2007/Nr. 04, February 2007, 8 Pages

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

Markus Kaim, Ronja Kempin

A "Hamiltonian Moment" for European Defense?

in: The National Interest, 21. August 2020

Ronja Kempin, Ronja Scheler

The EU Must Focus on Root Causes of Migration

The European Union is planning to act against human traffickers in the Mediterranean. But the plight of refugees can only be relieved when the EU’s foreign policy engagement is strengthened, say Ronja Kempin and Ronja Scheler.

Point of View, 30.04.2015

Ronja Kempin

From reluctance to policy – A new German stance on CSDP?

in: europeangeostrategy.org, 28.01.2015, (online)

Media quotes (selection):

Lewis Sanders IV

'Security Union': The greatest threat to the EU comes from within

The European Commission has hailed progress on its roadmap for a more secure Europe. But while terrorism, migration and Russia have been touted as the greatest threats to the EU, the reality appears quite different.

in: dw.com, 14.10.2016

News

Ronja Kempin on Twitter

Markus Kaim, Ronja Kempin
A "Hamiltonian Moment" for European Defense?
in: The National Interest, 21. August 2020

Ronja Kempin, Barbara Kunz
France, Germany, and the quest for European strategic autonomy
Franco-German defence cooperation in a new era
Notes du Cerfa, n°141, Ifri, December 2017