Stategic Influence Handbook 2016

86 87 THALES GROUP INTERNAL THALES GROUP INTERNAL SWP (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) 3-4 Ludwigkirchplatz 10719 Berlin GERMANY Phone: +49-30-88007-0 http://www.swp-berlin.org INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, RELATIONS, FOREIGN POLICY, EUROPE Founded in 1962, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) is a foreign policy think tank. The SWP was originally created at the height of the Cold War to deal with issues linked to disarma- ment. Today, it provides foreign policy analysis and research to the Bundestag and the German Federal Go- vernment. With roughly 50 researchers, SWP covers a broad spectrum of regional and thematic expertise. As Europe’s largest think-tank in the field of international politics, SWP opened a Brussels office in 2009. • SWP currently employs about 140 staff of its own. Sponsors and Funding Institutions: • G-erman Funding Institutions: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, German Foundation for Peace Research, Gerda Henkel Foundation. • International Funding Institutions: European Commission, Nordic Council of Ministers, Norwegian Institute for Defence Strudies. • Sponsors: British Petroleum Europa SE, Daimler, German Academic Exchange Service, Deutsche Bank, Volkswagen AG. • Funding: 62% from the national government (€ 13.7M), 21% foundations, 2% European Union, 7% businesses, 2% German Research Foundation and 6% others (€2.09M external fundings) • Income: €15,8M in 2018 • Expenses: €13,84M in 2018 Executive board: • Director and Executive Chairman: Dr. Volker PERTHES. Professor, former Senior Research Associate at SWP • Deputy Director (Admin., Budget, Information & Knowledge): Christoph GEISLER. Former Head of Ad- ministration of the Hertie School of Governance • Deputy Director of Research: Barbara LIPPERT. Former Deputy Director of the Institute for European Politics (IEP) • Deputy Director (Internationalisation, Evaluation, Methods) : Prof. Dr. Gunther MAIHOLD Council: • President: Nikolaus VON BOMHARD. Former Chairman of the board at Munich Re. • Vice President: Helge BRAUN. The Federal minister • Vice President: Dr. Angelika NIEBLER. Head of the Chancellery Comments Resources Governance Thales Ranking 40 th GGTTI Ranking 19 th Worldwide non US / 17 th Def and Secu / 13 th Foreign Policy and International Affairs Science Policy Research Unit Structure & Activités • Research divisions • EU/Europe : analyses the core challenges of the European Union and Europe. It focuses on policy fields, processes and interests that shape the inward and outward activities of the European Union and its member states. • Turkey/CATS : The Centre for Applied Turkey Studies is dedicated to the study of Turkish domestic and foreign policy, understanding Turkey as an actor with pronounced regional – and occasionally global – ambitions. • International Security: examines a wide range of security issues ranging from European and transat- lantic security relations to global issues such as the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and arms control. • The Americas : analyses domestic, economic and foreign policy developments in the United States and Latin America as well as the relations between Germany/Europe and the countries of the Americas. • Eastern Europe, Eurasia:explores political structures, social processes and developments in foreign, security and military policy in the post-Soviet states of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, in particular Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. • Middle East and Africa: focused on social and political transformation, domestic and regional conflicts, as well as questions relating to external and security policies in Africa and the Middle East. • Asia: concentrates on the interrelationship between domestic transformation processes, foreign and security policy in southern and Pacific Asia, and their global ramifications. • Global Issues: deals with processes of globalisation, transnationalisation and internationalisation as well as with governmental, intergovernmental and non-state actors and their interaction. Last publications: • “European Strategic Autonomy , Actors, Issues, Conflicts of Interests”, Barbara Lippert, SWP Research Paper, 2019 • “Preventive Regulation of Autonomous Weapon Systems”, Anja Dahlmann, Marcel Dickow, SWP Re- search Paper, 2019 STRATEGIC INFLUENCE HANDBOOK - EUROPE INDEX