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 is deputy director of DGAPs Research Institute. He also heads 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: January 2023]

Dr. Christian Mölling

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In the media

Publications

Beschaffungsprojekte der Bundeswehr

Deutschland trägt mit neuen schweren Transporthelikoptern zu Europas strategischer Autonomie bei

Author/s
Dr. Christian Mölling
Torben Schütz
Policy Brief

Responsible Defense Policy

This Autumn, Germany Should Pave Its Way out of the 46 Billion Defense Investment Gap

Author/s
Dr. Christian Mölling
Torben Schütz
Policy Brief

Ziviles Krisenmanagement der EU

Den Ambitionen müssen Taten folgen

Author/s
Dr. Hannah Neumann
Carina Böttcher
Dr. Christian Mölling
et al.
Policy Brief

EU Civilian Crisis Management

How the Union Can Live up to Its Ambitions – or Stumble into Irrelevance

Author/s
Dr. Hannah Neumann
Carina Böttcher
Dr. Christian Mölling
et al.
Policy Brief