Areas of Expertise

  • EU enlargement toward the countries of the Western Balkans
  • Peace and conflict research
  • Political communication

Short Bio

Frauke Seebass is an associate fellow at DGAP. She is also a visiting fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Brussels and a PhD student at Andrássy University Budapest. She is enrolled in the doctoral program “netPOL – Future of Demoracy in EU-rope” where she looks at EU foreign policy strategies and narratives toward Kosovo. 

From 2023 to 2024, Seebass was a project manager in DGAP‘s Center for Order and Governance in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, focusing on EU Enlargement toward the countries of the Western Balkans. Previously, she had been working on foreign and EUropean politics for several years with different NGOs, including a three-year program supporting youth participation in German and Georgian politics. Her academic background is in peace and conflict studies, human geography, and communications, which she studied in Germany, the Netherlands, and Israel. She has published on EU foreign policy and enlargement in various formats.

Languages

German, English, Dutch, Spanish, French

 

[Last updated: July 2024]

Frauke Seebass

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Publications

Will Deadlock over Ukraine Kill the EU Enlargement Momentum?

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wants to postpone Ukraine’s accession talks and accelerate those of the Balkan candidates. In fact, he might slow down EU enlargement in general, which was only recently revived and which Hungary strongly supports.

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Milan Nič
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