Dr Volker Perthes
Executive Board Senior Distinguished Fellow
Short Curriculum vitae
10/2023-03/2024 UN Under-Secretary-General, Head of Independent Strategic Review Team for UNAMI (United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq)
02/2021-10/2023 UN Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative for Sudan and head of UNITAMS (United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan)
10/2005-09/2020 Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Executive Chairman of the Board of SWP
2015-2018 Senior Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria; Chairperson of the Ceasefire Task Force (CTF) of the International Syria Support Group
2006-2019 Professor, Humboldt University Berlin
1992-2005 Senior Research Associate at SWP, Head of Middle East and Africa Division up to March 2005
1999 Habilitation, Duisburg University
1991-1993, Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut
1990 PhD, Duisburg University
SWP Publications
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What Trump will be leaving behind if he leaves
Should Joe Biden win the election, he will not turn the wheel of history back to the Obama era. Europe must help the United States to regain its lost reputation, says Volker Perthes.
Point of View, 15.09.2020 -
Strategic Rivalry between United States and China
Causes, Trajectories, and Implications for Europe
SWP Research Paper 2020/RP 04, 06.04.2020, 53 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2020RP04
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The Corona Crisis and International Relations: Open Questions, Tentative Assumptions
International responses to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus appear to have turned the world upside down. But are these changes lasting or transient? SWP Director Volker Perthes takes a first look at the implications for international politics.
Point of View, 31.03.2020 -
European Strategic Autonomy
Actors, Issues, Conflicts of Interests
SWP Research Paper 2019/RP 04, 21.03.2019, 39 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2019RP04
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Syria: Too Fragile to Ignore
Military Outcomes, External Influence and European Options
SWP Comment 2019/C 07, 18.02.2019, 4 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2019C07
External publications
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Sudan’s Transition to War
in: Survival, 66(4), 127–148, July 2024doi:10.1080/00396338.2024.2380205
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Why Sudan’s Democratic Transition Depends on Stability in Darfur
in: World Politics Review (WPR), 17.03.2020 (online) -
America, China and the complexity of their rivalry
in: The Security Times, Februar 2020 (online). -
Toward a New Iran Nuclear Deal
in: Project Syndicate, 14.02.2020 (online). -
Toward European Strategic Autonomy
Far from being an abstract concept, European strategic autonomy has huge practical implications, especially in military and economic terms. Realizing this goal will make Europe more prosperous, secure, and influential in a rapidly changing world.
in: Project Syndicate, 04.04.2019 (online) -
Sustaining Europe’s Security Trio
Credible joint initiatives by France, Germany, and the UK will have a greater international impact than a common European position emanating from a debate in the EU’s Political and Security Committee. Fostering deeper collaboration among the EU's "big three" must therefore remain at the top of the agenda before and after Brexit.
in: Project Syndicate, 28.08.2018, (online)