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Author - Cornelius Adebahr
Dr. Cornelius Adebahr is a political scientist and entrepreneur based in Berlin, Germany, focusing on European foreign policy issues, transatlantic relations, and South-eastern Europe. Since the end of 2000, he has been the owner of Wirtschaft am Wasserturm – Political Consultancy, Project Development, and Training.
In addition, he is a fellow of the New Leadership Foundation (stiftung neue verantwortung) as well as of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), a lecturer at the Erfurt School of Public Policy, and a member of the Team Europe of the European Commission. In 2002/2003, he was a fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation’s Post-Graduate Program in International Affairs.
Prior to this, Cornelius Adebahr served as project assistant at the Aspen Institute Berlin and as an election supervisor with the OSCE Bosnia and Herzegovina. He studied Political Science (International Relations), Philosophy, Public Law, and International Economics in Tübingen, Paris, and at the Free University Berlin, where he graduated in 2001 before receiving his PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in 2008.
Latest Posts:
More than just sanctions: The EU needs to be smarter on Iran
With an escalation of threats and chest-beating potentially leading to a war over the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has again become one of the most critical issues in international politics. Clearly, the time is ripe for some smart thinking in the...
Putting a Face to Europe in North Africa: Why the EU needs a Special Representative to respond to the Arab Spring
The European Union and its member states continue to struggle to find a response to the Arab Spring. Past policy approaches had little impact on the area’s regimes, if anything doing more to support them than reform them. So it makes sense...
Commodity boom and commodity blues
Rarely were the price increases so enormous, rarely was the helplessness of the industrialized countries so great as in the rare earths sector. While precious metals like silver or energy sources...
Responsible Leadership in the Face of Disaster
Following the earthquake and the nuclear catastrophe in Japan, a state of shock, intuitive defensiveness and frantic political activity of those in charge of utility...
A Fitness Regime for the European Union
It started the New Year at 53, hopelessly out of shape and in the midst of an existential crisis of such terrible complexity the Greek Gods would wonder whether they hadn’t missed a trick or two. The poor old EU,...
Global resources, European confusion - time to re-think raw materials
For tomorrow, 26 January, the European Commission had announced to present a...
The Involuntary Union: European Economic Governance and the 'Union State'
The political reaction to the economic crisis shows two things: First, in moments of great crisis, the nation-state is the...
