Press photo (JPG) | 358 KB

Dr. phil. Astrid Sahm

Research Division:

Eastern Europe, Eurasia Visiting Fellow

astrid.sahm@swp-berlin.org +49 30 88007-474

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Areas of Expertise

Russia, E. Europe, Central Asia

Belarus
Ukraine
Democracy promotion
Energy policy
Environmental policy

Focus

Development of civil society, national identity-formation and culture of remembrance, energy and environmental policy, development of political systems and integration policies of post-Soviet states (especially Belarus and Ukraine) in the European context

Short Curriculum vitae

Since 2017 Head of the International Center for Education and Exchange

Since 2012 Head of the Berlin office of the International Center for Education and Exchange

2006–2011 German director of the Johannes Rau International Center for Education and Exchange in Minsk, Belarus

1995–2005 Research Fellow respectively Assistance Professor at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research and the Chair for Political Science and Contemporary History, Mannheim University

SWP Publications

- Manfred Huterer
- Astrid Sahm
Belarus: Sovereignty under Threat
- German
Impacts of the Russian War against Ukraine

SWP Comment 2024/C 22, 12.06.2024, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2024C22
- Astrid Sahm
Belarus and the 2030 Agenda: Foreign Policy Instrument and Failed Reform Driver
in:
- Marianne Beisheim (ed.)
Country-level Politics around the SDGs
Contribution to a Research Paper 2023/RP 07, 10.07.2023, 75 Pages, pp. 19–23
- Sabine Fischer
- André Härtel
- Sebastian Hoppe
- Margarete Klein
- Janis Kluge
- Astrid Sahm
- Susan Stewart
What the Prospect of a Prolonged War Means for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
- German
One year after the massive attack on Ukraine, the Kremlin is sticking to its maximum goals, a negotiated settlement is not in sight. How a prolonged war can affect Russia, Ukraine and Belarus is analysed in this 360 degrees. Margarete Klein coordinated the publication.

360 degrees, 20.02.2023
- Sabine Fischer
- Astrid Sahm
Belarus: Is There a Way Out of the Crisis?
- German
The protests over the outcome of the presidential election in Belarus continue unabated. Initiatives to resolve the political crisis through dialogue have come to naught. Sabine Fischer and Astrid Sahm outline possible steps out of the crisis.

Point of View, 17.09.2020

View all

External publications

- Astrid Sahm
The Chernobyl Disaster in the Context of the European Culture of Memory

in: Matthias Klingenberg (ed.), History and Identity, Insights into the dvv international History Network, Bonn 2010, pp. 141-156
- Astrid Sahm
Belarus am Wendepunkt?

Perspektiven der Kooperation mit EU, Europarat und OSZE

in: Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (Hg.), OSZE-Jahrbuch 2009, Baden-Baden 2010, S. 137-150
- Astrid Sahm
Civil Society and Mass Media in Belarus

in: Sabine Fischer (ed.), Back from the Cold? The EU and Belarus in 2009, Chaillot Paper no. 119, November 2009
- Sabine Fischer
- Egbert Jahn
- Astrid Sahm (eds.)
Die Zukunft des Friedens

2. Friedens- und Konfliktforschung aus der Perspektive jüngerer Generationen

Wiesbaden 2005
- Astrid Sahm
Transformation im Schatten von Tschernobyl

Umwelt- und Energiepolitik im gesellschaftlichen Wandel von Belarus und der Ukraine

Münster 1999, 472 S.

View all

Areas of Expertise

Short Curriculum vitae

Belarus: Sovereignty under Threat

Belarus and the 2030 Agenda: Foreign Policy Instrument and Failed Reform Driver

What the Prospect of a Prolonged War Means for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

Belarus: Is There a Way Out of the Crisis?

The Chernobyl Disaster in the Context of the European Culture of Memory

Belarus am Wendepunkt?

Civil Society and Mass Media in Belarus

Die Zukunft des Friedens

Transformation im Schatten von Tschernobyl