Claudia Major
| Address: | Current positions: Research Fellow: Center for Security Studies (CSS) ETH Zurich WEC E16 Weinbergstr. 11 CH-8092 Zurich Switzerland Lecturer: Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France |
| E-Mail: | claudia.major@sciences-po.org / CXM316@bham.ac.uk |
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Project
France, Germany and the United Kingdom: Why commit to the further development of a European Security
The project will analyse the emergence and development of distinctive structures of European governance for security and defence policy, alongside a concomitant insistence on the prevalence and primacy of national sovereignty in this area. The reasons behind the French, British and German commitment to ESDP will be analysed as well as how, and to what extent, the three countries have influenced the emergence and the further development of ESDP. The comparison will be based on three cases central to ESDP development: the leadership (institutional) dimension, the functional dimension (Rapid Reaction Force) and the conceptual-doctrinal dimension (European Security Strategy)
Expertise
Publications
2009
- Mölling, Christian / Major, Claudia: Brothers in Arms? Nato Response Force and EU Battlegroups,
- Mölling, Christian / Major, Claudia: International Organisations in Crisis Management – Comprehensive Approaches towards Coordination and Coherence?, commissioned study
2008
- Major, Claudia: Cooperation is what you make of it: EUFOR RD Congo as example of EU-UN cooperation in military crisis management, EU Institute for Security Studies, under review
2007
- Major, Claudia: It’s a long way to … regional strategic actorness. Assessing the EU’s ongoing (r)evolution in strategic and regional affairs, in K. Brockmann and B. Hauck (eds): Security in a Globalized World: Towards Regional Cooperation and Strategic Partnerships, Berlin: DGAP, 2007, pp: 19-32
- Major, Claudia / Mölling, Christian: Sarkozy’s Brave New World: France’s foreign security and defence policy, European Security Review, 35: 5-8
- Major, Claudia / Mölling, Christian: Show us the Way Forward, Astérix” Europe Needs the French Involvement in EDSP, In: Bastien Irondelle: La France: combien de sous-marins nucléaires ? La politique de défense de la France à la veille des élections présidentielles. Dossier Mars/Avril 2007, Centre d'études et de recherches internationales/ Science Po.www.ceri-sciencespo.fr
2006
- Major, Claudia / Henning Rieke: Der erste Schritt vor dem zweiten. Wie steht es um die strategische Entwicklung der EU?, In: Internationale Politik (3) 2006: 92-97
- Major, Claudia / Henning Riecke: Europe’s little Blue Book: The state of the art in Europe’s strategic debate, Internationale Politik - Transatlantic Edition, 7 (3) 2006: 44-51
2005
- Major, Claudia / Karolina Pomorska: Europeanisation: Framework or Fashion?, Fornet CFSP Forum 3 (5), 2005: 1-4.
- Major, Claudia: Europeanisation and foreign and security policy - undermining or rescuing the nation state?, In: Politics 25 (3), 2005: 175-190.
2001
- Major, Claudia / Stormy Mildner: Auf dem Weg nach Doha - Deutschland und Frankreich müssen zum Gelingen der WTO-Runde beitragen’, September 2001, www.weltpolitik.net.
- Major, Claudia / Ulrike Guérot: France et Allemagne: entre divergences salutaires et convergences nécessaires/Frankreich und Deutschland: zwischen wohltuenden Differenzen und notwendigen Konvergenzen., Report for IV. Aspen Franco-German Dialogue, Lyon, 22.-24. March 2001, Aspen Institute France, August 2001.
2000
- Major, Claudia: L’Union Européenne et l’Ukraine: Des intérêts mutuels pour une coopération étroite, In: Regards sur l’est, Novembre/Décembre, 2000: 22-25.
- Major, Claudia / Jean-Pierre Froehly: Die europäische Ukraine, In: Dokumente, (6), 2000: 462-468.
CV
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Claudia is currently completing her PhD on the development of the EU as a security and defence actor through ESDP, while also teaching European security and defence policy at the Institut d\'Etudes Politiques de Paris. She studied history, political and social sciences in Lyon, Berlin and Paris, and graduated from the Free University Berlin and the Institute of Political Studies Paris. She subsequently worked at the German Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin) on EU and Franco-German issues and as political consultant inter alia on security and defence policy and industry at IPA Network, Berlin.
As part of her doctoral research, Claudia spent respectively 6 months as visiting fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI) in Paris and at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin.
Claudia’ main areas of expertise are:
- ESDP and its development, particularly in strategic and material terms;
- concept and processes of Europeanisation in foreign, security and defence policy;
- CFSP/ESDP’s effects on the nation state;
- French, German and British security and defence policy;
- German-Franco Relations
Claudia’s work has been recognised by the award of national and international fellowships, inter alia a scholarship of the Volkswagen Foundation awarded on behalf of the Research and Training Program in European Foreign and Security Policy Studies, UACES, the German Merit Foundation, the Manfred-Woerner-Seminar, the Young Koenigswinter Conference, the Koenigswinter Conference and the New Faces Conference of the International Forum on Strategic Thinking at the DGAP.
Besides her native German, Claudia speaks fluent French and English and basic Russian.