Areas of Expertise

  • Security and defense
  • Military capabilities
  • Defense industry
  • Security and defense policy of Germany and other major European countries
  • EU Common Security and Defense Policy
  • NATO

Short Bio

Christian Mölling has been deputy director of DGAPs Research Institute until August 31, 2024. He also headed the Center for Security and Defense.

Before joining DGAP, Mölling held research and leadership positions with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), the International Security Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, and the Hamburg Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy.

He has been a visiting fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London, and the Paris-based Fondation pour la recherche stratégique.

Mölling studied politics, economics, and history at the universities of Duisburg and Warwick and holds a doctoral degree from Ludwig Maximilian Universität Munich.

Languages

German, English, French

 

[Last updated: August 2024]

Dr. Christian Mölling

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Publications

Security and Defense

Transatlantic Action Plan
Author/s
Dr. Christian Mölling
Sophia Becker
Ambassador Victoria Nuland
Online Commentary

EU Crisis Management

Matching Ends and Needs in the Future
Author/s
Dr. Christian Mölling
Torben Schütz

Stronger Together

A Strategy to Revitalize Transatlantic Power
Author/s
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook
Prof. Dr. Daniela Schwarzer
Dr. Christian Mölling
et al.
Report

Less Talk, More Action

Europe has to move beyond toxic debates about “autonomy” or “sovereignty” toward tangible policies.

Author/s
Dr. Claudia Major
Dr. Christian Mölling
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