Here you will find selected publications in relevant media, either based on independent research or as part of our consultancy work. All publications may be quoted with reference to the author. We are grateful to receive information about such use. Thank you.

• DGAPanalyse kompakt (April 2012 N° 3)
  
• Elections Without Change The Iranian regime defies economic crisis and the threat of war
  
• There is no trace of the revolution, Cornelius Adebahr writes from his new home in Tehran. Whoever hoped that the latest parliamentary elections in Iran could again lead the people to mobilize as in 2009 and result in a change of power relations now find themselves disappointed. With the country now practically consumed with the beginning of Iranian New Year celebrations, the regime has survived another critical phase. Nevertheless, international sanctions are being tightened, war rhetoric is increasing, and the economic crisis is getting worse.

• DGAPstandpunkt (December 2011 N° 13)
  
• The diplomatic turn that Tehran does not expect. Why – and how – the European Union should establish official relations with Iran now
  
• After the storming of the British embassy in Tehran, the already uneasy relations between the West and Iran are on the brink of collapse. To break out of the spiral of escalating retaliation, the EU member states have to try a new trick, Cornelius Adebahr argues: While they reduce their bilateral relations with Iran, they should mandate the EU to negotiate with the Iranian leadership. As a precursor to the establishment of diplomatic relations between Iran and the EU, the EU should dispatch a special envoy.
  

• Policy Brief (5/10) of stiftung neue verantwortung
  
• Kein Kampf um Rohstoffe: Die Zukunft der Industriepolitik liegt in internationaler Kooperation und Regulierung [No Resource War: The Industrial Policy of the Future should focus on Cooperation and Regulation]
  
• Cornelius Adebahr and his team analyse the current global challenges in the raw material sector and propose a new cross-sectoral approach. To avoid any war over resources, European countries should focus on a policy mix of coordation, regulation and research funding.

• DGAPanalyse (August 2011 N° 2)
  
• Crossing Borders: Rethinking the European Union’s Neighborhood Policies
  
• Jointly with a number of colleagues from DGAP's Research Institute, Cornelius Adebahr elaborates some proposals for a reappraisal of the EU's neighbourhood policies. Together with Natasha Wunsch, he looks at the current stumbling blocks of the accession process and considers how the 'enlargement promise' could be revived. In the publication's conclusion, he presents together with Almut Möller a new concept of 'porous neighbourhood', that aims to reduce the frictions between the 'ins' and 'outs' in EU-ropa.

• DGAPanalyse kompakt (June 2011 N° 5)
  
• 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. Surprised by the force of events that unrolled on their front porch, spreading from Tunisia across North Africa and the Middle East, the EU has since been digging through its toolbox. 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 that the EU is now looking to counter its lack of credibility with the new movements and powers of reform in the southern Mediterranean area by strongly reorienting its policies. To this end, Cornelius Adebahr and Almut Moeller argue, the EU should utilize one of its established and successful foreign policy instruments and name an EU Special Representative (EUSR) for North Africa.

• What the EU did next: Shorter Essays for a Longer LIfe
  
• The Involuntary Union: European Economic Governance and the Union State
  
• European cooperation is no longer a jolly vocational exercise, argues Cornelius Adebahr, but a hard and necessary grind: today’s economic policy shows how previous political shortcuts to integration require a laborious tidying up exercise. This doesn’t mark an end to the European dream but is rather the path to true Union.

• Policy Paper (3/10) of stiftung neue verantwortung
  
• Deutschland und das „Dynamische Dutzend“: Neue Partnerschaften schaffen globale Handlungsfähigkeit [Germany and the „Dynamic Dozen“: New Partnerships for a global capacity to act]
  
• In this comprehensive paper concluding the project on „Geopolitics and the financial crisis“ (here the short version as a Policy Brief), Cornelius Adebahr and his team analyse the global power shifts in the wake of the financial and economic crisis. They make concrete proposals how Germany should reorient its cooperation with the emerging countries of the „Dynamic Dozen“.

 

• Diplomatic Magazine (September 2010)
  
• The European External Action Service: no longer the panacea but with long-term potential
  
• In this article, Cornelius Adebahr highlights the weaknesses of the newly founded diplomatic service of the EU, also showing ways how Germany could further support this important institution.

 

• DGAPanalyse kompakt (July 2010 N° 5)
  
• Strategy, not Bureaucracy: The role of the EU Special Representatives in the European External Action Service
  
• By developing concrete criteria for the future use of EU Special Representatives, this analysis by Cornelius Adebahr contributed directly to the ongoing discussions at the highest political level of the EU. Thus in January 2011, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament invited him to present his findings.

 

• DGAPanalyse kompakt (June 2010 N° 4)
  
• Die selbst verschuldeten Fesseln der Finanzmärkte ablegen [Shedding the self-inflicted fetters of the financial markets]
  
• In this piece following a first climax of the European debt crisis, Cornelius Adebahr points to the underlying long-term factors of the crisis. He argues in favour of restoring the primacy of politics vis-à-vis the financial markets.

 

• Internationale Politik – Global Edition (Summer 2009)
• Think National Interest, Act European
• The article analyses the reaction of the European Union to the twin challenge of global economic crisis and climate change. It reveals the extent to which nation states need to rely on a European framework to master these crises – lest they will not perish.

 

• Book publication with Nomos (Baden-Baden)
• Learning and Change in European Foreign Policy: The Case of the EU Special Representatives
• This comprehensive study presents an in-depth analysis of the EU Special Representatives as an important instrument of European foreign policy. Representing the European Union in more than 25 countries globally, the EUSRs have become its ‘eyes and ears’. The combination of analytical precision and political relevance makes this publication particularly appropriate for academics, policy-makers, students and everyone interested in the EU’s global role.

 

• CFSP Forum
• The First Will Be The Last: Why the EU Foreign Service will remain embryonic for some time
• In a contribution to the renowned newsletter on European foreign policy, published by the FORNET research network and edited by the London School of Economics, Cornelius Adebahr analyses the prospects of the setting up of an EU External Action Service as provided for by the Lisbon Reform Treaty.

 

• American Council on Germany (ACG), New York
• The Debate Goes On: Widening vs. Deepening – Europe between Enlargements
• Upon conclusion of the second Young Leaders Seminar on the "Future of Europe", the American Council on Germany (New York) published the conference report by Cornelius Adebahr as Occasional Paper 2008/#2. Participants debated both the geopolitical and geo-economic implications for the EU coming from the European neighbourhood as well as from the global level.

 

• EPC Working Paper
• The EU Foreign Service: how to build a more effective common policy
• Together with Giovanni Grevi from the EU Institute for Security Studies, Cornelius Adebahr describes the lessons that can be drawn from the work of the EU Special Representatives for the future European External Action Service. In their contribution they analyse how, over a period of eleven years, the Special Representatives have become an important instrument of the EU's foreign policy and how they have developed an external presence hitherto unmatched.

 

NB: You can find more publications on the German-language pages.