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Dr. Barbara Lippert

Executive Board Director of Research

barbara.lippert@swp-berlin.org

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Areas of Expertise

EU, Europe

EU enlargement policy
European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)
Political system of the European Union
Principles of European integration

Focus

European Enlargement Policy and its implications for the political system and the policies of the European Union as well as Germany's approach to European Affairs

Working Groups

Reordering European security

Short Curriculum vitae

Since April 2009 Director of Research in the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

1992-2009 Deputy Director of the Institute for European Politics (IEP)

1997 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) from the University of Bonn

1981-1987 Political Science, Modern History, Eastern European History and Slavonic Studies at the University of Bonn and the Free University Berlin

SWP Publications

- Peter Becker
- Barbara Lippert
Acceding Countries’ Gradual Integration into the EU Single Market
- German
Prerequisites, Opportunities and Hurdles

SWP Comment 2024/C 42, 16.09.2024, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2024C42
- Barbara Lippert
EU Enlargement: Geopolitics Meets Integration Policy
- German
The EU Is Set to Add Gradualist Elements to Its Enlargement Doctrine

SWP Comment 2024/C 01, 11.01.2024, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2024C01
- Barbara Lippert
European Summit in Prague Sets Agenda and Isolates Moscow
- German
The European Political Community’s inaugural summit in Prague creates a new format for open and equal high-level discussion of issues affecting all of Europe. As Barbara Lippert explains, its success will depend on the EU.

Point of View, 17.10.2022
- Barbara Lippert
The EU’s Next Eastward Enlargement Will Be Complicated and Expensive
- German
Accession Negotiations, Association and New Formats Should Be Coordinated

SWP Comment 2022/C 46, 12.08.2022, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2022C46
- Raphael Bossong
- Oliver Geden
- André Härtel
- Ronja Kempin
- Kai-Olaf Lang
- Barbara Lippert
- Chloé Ludden
- Nicolai von Ondarza
- Bettina Rudloff
Ukraine’s possible EU accession and its consequences
- German
The European Council has granted Ukraine candidate status. Despite political momentum, the road into the EU will be long and arduous. What challenges do the EU and Ukraine face in preparing for accession and eventual admission? This 360 Degrees was coordinated by Nicolai von Ondarza.

360 degrees, 22.07.2022
- Barbara Lippert
Ukraine’s Membership Bid Puts Pressure on the European Union
- German
A Security Policy Flanking, Not a Revision of EU Enlargement Policy, Is Advisable

SWP Comment 2022/C 21, 24.03.2022, 7 Pages

doi:10.18449/2022C21

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External publications

- Barbara Lippert
From Marginal to Central: the Foreign and Security Dimension of EU Enlargement Policy

in: Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, European Policy Analysis, September 2024:18epa
- Barbara Lippert
The European Political Community – a wildcard for a transition period

Genshagen: Sitftung Genshagen, CFA/ÖFZ, 2023 (The European Political Community – perspectives from Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and Vienna, 3)
- Barbara Lippert
Turkey as a Special and (Almost) Dead Case of EU Enlargement Policy

in: Wulf Reiners/Ebru Turhan (eds.): EU-Turkey Relations. Theories, Institutions, and Policies, Cham 2021, S. 267-293

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70890-0_11
- Barbara Lippert
As Good As It Gets – The EU Policy of Germany’s New Government

Scottish Centre on European Relations blog, 13.02.2018
- Barbara Lippert
Germany and European Integration: Keeping Together While Moving Forward

Scottish Centre on European Relations blog, 05.06.2017
- Barbara Lippert
The Nexus between Enlargement and Differentiation

Rom: Istituto Affari Internazionali, 2017 (Project EU60: Re-founding Europe. The Responsibility to propose)

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