Areas of Expertise

  • European security and defense policy
  • Defense cooperation
  • Technology 
     

Short Bio

Max Becker has been a policy fellow in DGAP’s Center for Security and Defense since December 2025. He focuses on German and European security and defense policy as well as questions of defense cooperation. He also works on the role of new technologies in defense policy and their implications for the strategic capabilities of Germany and Europe.

Previously, Becker spent two years as a research assistant in the EU/Europe Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). During this time, he published on the EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy, European defense cooperation, and the international politics of European far-right parties.

Becker studied international relations and political science in Erfurt and Tallinn. He then completed a dual-degree master’s program in governance and public policy as well as international relations in Passau and Budapest. His master’s thesis focused on the European Union’s defense industrial policy.

 

Languages

German, English

 

[Last updated: December 2025]

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Publications

Soldat mit Tablet-Computer vor einer alten Backsteinmauer

Innovationskultur kann man nicht beschaffen

Max Becker
Sebastian Schwartz
Die Ukraine zeigt mit ihrem Battle Management System Delta, wie vernetzte Kriegsführung funktioniert. Die Bundeswehr hat mit SitaWare vergleichbare Software beschafft. Doch es fehlt die Kultur, die Software als Daueraufgabe versteht und nicht als Beschaffungsgegenstand.
Externe Publikationen
A soldier of a military mortar crew checks the direction on the tablet as he stands on the border of a dry sunflower field

Computer sagt Nein

Lehren für die Bundeswehr aus dem ukrainischen Battle Management System
Max Becker
Sebastian Schwartz
Policy Brief
E5-Rat

Gleiche unter Gleichen

Wie die E5-Staaten europäische Rüstungskooperation stärken können
Max Becker
Das E5-Format verspricht neue Impulse für Europas Rüstungskooperation – doch zentrale Strukturfragen und Deutschlands Rolle sind noch ungeklärt.
Memo

In the media