Fabian Breuer

Biographical note 

Before his involvement in EUDO, Fabian was Research Associate with the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and a post-doctoral fellow in the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Program offered by the Volkswagen Foundation, the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the Compagnia di San Paolo.

Fabian holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the European University Institute (with emphasis on European security and defence policy), and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam.

He also studied political sciences, international relations and law at the Dresden University of Technology. He worked for GPPi Consulting and the press office of Javier Solana at Council of the European Union.

 

Research interests 

European integration and decision-making processes, European foreign and security policy, international organizations and security, German foreign and security policy, e-democracy and direct democracy.

 

Publications 

• Between intergovernmentalism and socialisation: the Brusselisation of ESDP , EUI Robert Schuman Centre Working Paper, 2010/48
• The EU Profiler: A new way for voters to meet parties and to understand European elections, in: Gagatek, W. (ed.): The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament - Country Reports, European Union Democracy Observatory, 2010 [ebook, available on http://www.eudo.eu/Home.aspx ].
• Strategische Grundlagen der ESVP/GASP, in: Feichtinger, W. / Gebhard, C. (eds.): Globale Sicherheit: Europäische Potenziale. Herausforderungen – Ansätze – Instrumente. Wien: Böhlau, forthcoming 2010.
• Is there a European Way of War? Organizational Frames and Military Doctrine, Armed Forces & Society, 35:2, pp. 628-645, co-authored with Pascal Vennesson et al., 2009.
• The Estonian e-Voting Experience and the Wider Context, in: Krishna, S.J. / Kumar, N. (eds.): E-Voting. Perspectives and Experiences. Mumbai: Icfai University Press, 2008.

• Internet voting in the March 2007 Parliamentary Elections in Estonia. Council of Europe, co-authored with Alexander H. Trechsel et al., 2007.

• Between Ambitions and Financial Constraints: The Reform of the German Armed Forces, German Politics, 15:2, pp. 206-220, 2006.

• E-Voting in the 2005 local elections in Estonia. Council of Europe (2006), co-authored with Alexander H. Trechsel, 2006.

   

 

Book Reviews

• Non-state Actors in International Relations. The Case of Germany, edited by Annemarie Le Gloannec,. Manchester: Manchester University Press, in: German Politics, 18:2 (2009), pp. 270-271, 2007.
• The Ambivalent Alliance. Konrad Adenauer, the CDU / CSU, and the West 1949-1966, by Ronald J. Granieri, New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books, in: German Politics, 15:1, pp. 133-134, 2005.
• European Union Foreign and Security Policy, by Roland Dannreuther (2004), London and New York: Routledge, in: Journal of Contemporary European Research, 1:1, pp. 76-77, 2005.

Languages

 

German, English, Dutch, French, Italian