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Dr Volker Perthes

Executive Board Senior Distinguished Fellow

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Short Curriculum vitae

10/2023-03/2024 UN Under-Secretary-General, Head of Independent Strategic Review Team for UNAMI (United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq)

02/2021-10/2023 UN Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative for Sudan and head of UNITAMS (United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan)

10/2005-09/2020 Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Executive Chairman of the Board of SWP

2015-2018 Senior Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria; Chairperson of the Ceasefire Task Force (CTF) of the International Syria Support Group

2006-2019 Professor, Humboldt University Berlin

1992-2005 Senior Research Associate at SWP, Head of Middle East and Africa Division up to March 2005

1999 Habilitation, Duisburg University

1991-1993, Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut

1990 PhD, Duisburg University

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SWP Publications

- Volker Perthes
What Trump will be leaving behind if he leaves

Should Joe Biden win the election, he will not turn the wheel of history back to the Obama era. Europe must help the United States to regain its lost reputation, says Volker Perthes.

Point of View, 15.09.2020
- Barbara Lippert
- Volker Perthes (eds.)
Strategic Rivalry between United States and China
- German
Causes, Trajectories, and Implications for Europe

SWP Research Paper 2020/RP 04, 06.04.2020, 53 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020RP04
- Volker Perthes
The Corona Crisis and International Relations: Open Questions, Tentative Assumptions

International responses to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus appear to have turned the world upside down. But are these changes lasting or transient? SWP Director Volker Perthes takes a first look at the implications for international politics.

Point of View, 31.03.2020
- Barbara Lippert
- Nicolai von Ondarza
- Volker Perthes (eds.)
European Strategic Autonomy
- German
Actors, Issues, Conflicts of Interests

SWP Research Paper 2019/RP 04, 21.03.2019, 39 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019RP04
- Volker Perthes
Syria: Too Fragile to Ignore

Military Outcomes, External Influence and European Options

SWP Comment 2019/C 07, 18.02.2019, 4 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019C07

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External publications

- Volker Perthes
Sudan’s Transition to War

in: Survival, 66(4), 127–148, July 2024

doi:10.1080/00396338.2024.2380205
- Wibke Hansen
- Volker Perthes
Why Sudan’s Democratic Transition Depends on Stability in Darfur

in: World Politics Review (WPR), 17.03.2020 (online)
- Volker Perthes
America, China and the complexity of their rivalry

in: The Security Times, Februar 2020 (online).
- Volker Perthes
Toward a New Iran Nuclear Deal

in: Project Syndicate, 14.02.2020 (online).
- Volker Perthes
Toward European Strategic Autonomy

Far from being an abstract concept, European strategic autonomy has huge practical implications, especially in military and economic terms. Realizing this goal will make Europe more prosperous, secure, and influential in a rapidly changing world.

in: Project Syndicate, 04.04.2019 (online)
- Volker Perthes
Sustaining Europe’s Security Trio

Credible joint initiatives by France, Germany, and the UK will have a greater international impact than a common European position emanating from a debate in the EU’s Political and Security Committee. Fostering deeper collaboration among the EU's "big three" must therefore remain at the top of the agenda before and after Brexit.

in: Project Syndicate, 28.08.2018, (online)

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