Dr. Hans-Georg Ehrhart

Senior Research Fellow
Contact
ehrhart@ifsh.de

Vita

Hans-Georg Ehrhart has been a Senior Research Fellow since October 2018. He was born in Bonn in 1955. He studied political science, sociology and philosophy in Bonn and received his doctorate in 1986 with a thesis on "The German Question from a French Perspective". He completed research at the Fondation pour les Etudes de Défense nationale, Paris (1988) and at the Centre for International Relations of Queen's University (1993) and was Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies of the EU in Paris (2001). From 1987 to 1989, he worked as a research fellow in the Security and Disarmament Study Group of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Research Institute. In 1989 he became a research assistant at the IFSH. From 2008 to 2018, he headed the Center for European Peace and Security Studies (ZEUS).

Research profile

  • European security
  • Strategy and warfare
  • Peace-keeping
  • German-franco relations

  • Arms control and disarmament

Memberships & professional activities

  • Member of the VDW-Study Group on European Security 

Selected Publications

  • Ehrhart, Hans-Georg. 2024. Ukrainekrieg ohne Ende? Neun Thesen für ein Kriegsende. Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 17 (4): 415-435. DOI: 10.1007/s12399-024-01009-2.
  • Ehrhart, Hans-Georg. 2024. Germany and Europe After the Ukraine War. Baltic Rim Economies 4: 22.
  • Ehrhart, Hans-Georg . 2023. Germany and Europe after the Ukraine War in 2025: Three Scenarios. In: Putin's War in Ukraine, Volume 2. Different Aspects and Challenges of the War. (Sõjateadlane 23/2023), edited by Vladimir Sazonov , Andres Saumets , 199-211. Tartu : Kaitseväe Akadeemia . DOI: 10.15157/st.vi23.24205.
  • Ehrhart, Hans-Georg. 2023. Deutschland und Europa nach dem Ukrainekrieg in 2025: Drei Szenarien. Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 16 (4): 377-387. DOI: 10.1007/s12399-023-00962-8.
  • Ehrhart, Hans-Georg . 2022. Für ein "gaullistisches" Deutschland in einem Europa der Vaterländer. In: »… aber eine Chance haben wir«. Zum 100. Geburtstag von Egon Bahr, edited by Peter Brandt , Hans-Joachim Gießmann , Götz Neuneck , 250-264. Bonn : Dietz .
  • Ehrhart, Hans-Georg. 2022. Langer Krieg oder „kalter Frieden“ in Europa? Der Ukrainekrieg als Eskalationsrisiko. Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 15 (4): 415-427. DOI: 10.1007/s12399-022-00927-3.
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