Areas of Expertise

  • Russian domestic, foreign, and security policy; EU-Russia relations
  • Russian energy, economic, and education policy
  • Eastern Partnership, especially in the South Caucasus, Belarus, and Ukraine
  • Russia’s relations with its post-Soviet neighbors and post-Soviet conflict areas
  • Regional order with a focus on Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, and Central Asia
  • Russian disinformation and hybrid warfare

Short Bio

Dr. Stefan Meister is Head of the Center for Order and Governance in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia at the DGAP. From 2019 until 2021, he worked as director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s South Caucasus Office.

From 2017 to 2019, Meister was head of the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia at DGAP, where he had previously headed its program for Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. Before that, he was a senior policy fellow in the Wider Europe Team at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in Berlin and London. In the 2015/16 term, Meister was a visiting fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC, where he wrote on Russian disinformation and propaganda. He has served as an election observer for the OSCE in post-Soviet countries several times and worked on conflict transformation and institution building in post-Soviet countries.

Meister is co-author of Geopolitics and Security: A New Strategy for the South Caucasus (KAS/DGAP/GIP, 2018), The Russia File (Brookings, 2018), Eastern Voices (Center for Transatlantic Relations/DGAP, 2017), and The Eastern Question (Brookings, 2016).

He studied international relations and East European history in Jena, Leipzig, and Nizhni Novgorod and holds a PhD from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with a thesis on the transformation of the Russian higher education and research system.

Languages

German, Russian, English, Polish

 

[Last updated: January 2023]

Dr. Stefan Meister

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Publications

Putins epochaler Irrweg

Seit der Krim-Annexion 2014 und dem Großangriff auf die Ukraine 2022 hat sich Russland immer weiter von Europa entfernt. Vier Neuerscheinungen zu den politischen, ökonomischen und historischen Entwicklungen hinter dieser Entfremdung. 

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Dr. Stefan Meister
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Beratung als Beruf

Wie entsteht politische Expertise, wie funktioniert Wissens­transfer? Was sind die Probleme, mit denen sich diejenigen auseinandersetzen müssen, die Forschung und Vermittlung auf professioneller Basis betreiben? Und wie sehen ihre Lösungen aus? Einblicke in den Maschinenraum der Denkfabriken.  

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Rachel Tausendfreund
Thorsten Benner
Henrik Maihack
et al.
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Iran, Russland und der Krieg in der Ukraine

Strategischer Pragmatismus prägt das Verhältnis Moskaus und Teherans. Trotz manch gleicher Interessen bleiben die Beziehungen rein transaktional.

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Dr. David Jalilvand
Dr. Stefan Meister
Dr. András Rácz
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Georgien am Kipppunkt

Korruption, Repression, Gewalt: Das Land im Kaukasus rutscht in den Autoritarismus ab, Richtung Moskau, weg von Brüssel. Steht die EU davor, Tiflis als Partner zu verlieren?

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Dr. Stefan Meister
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