German Institute for International and Security Affairs

SWP (Germany)

The German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) is an independent research institute that advises the German Bundestag and the German government on questions concerning international politics and foreign and security policy. SWP also advises decision-makers in international organisations relevant to Germany, above all the European Union, NATO and the United Nations. SWP is one of Europe’s leading think tanks in the field of international relations.

Contact information

The Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik – SWP

Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4
D-10719 Berlin
Germany

Contact :
Dr. Jonas Schneider
Email  [email protected]

Tel: +49 30 88007 0
Fax: +49 30 88007 100
Website: https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/
Mail: [email protected]

The team

Contacts Resume Speciality

Claudia Major

[email protected]

Since 2020: Head of Research Division International Security at SWP

Since 2006: Lecturer, Institut d’Etudes Politiques/Sciences Po Paris

Since 2005: Fellow at the SWP

  • NATO
  • Nuclear sharing
  • Common Security and Defence Policy

Colonel Wolfgang Richter

[email protected]

Since 2010: Senior Associate at SWP

2005-2009: Head of the military section of the Permanent Representation of Germany to the OSCE, Vienna

1999-2005: Head of department (global and European arms control), Federal Armed Forces Centre for Verification Tasks

1995-1999: Head of the military section of the Permanent Representation of Germany to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, and to Disarmament fora of the United Nations, New York

  • Conventional arms control, CSBMs, OSCE
  • Nuclear arms control, US-Russia, NATO, Eastern Europe
Dr. Jonas Schneider. [email protected]

International and Security Affairs (SWP)

2017-2020: Senior Researcher with the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich

2016-2017: Transatlantic Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)

2015-2016: Transatlantic Fellow with the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich

2011-2015: Research Associate with the Institute for Security Policy at the University of Kiel (ISPK)

  • Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Reversal
  • Non-proliferation Policies
  • Nuclear Export Controls, NSG