Areas of Expertise

  • Europe and European integration
  • The EU’s internal and external security policies
  • Relations between EU members and UK European policy

Short Bio

Dr. Roderick Parkes has been director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) until January 31, 2024. He also headed the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for the Future of Europe, where he works on issues of European integration and the EU’s role in the world. He joined DGAP from the Institute for Security Studies, a Paris-based agency of the EU, where he provided advice to decision-makers on dealing with the intersection of EU internal security and foreign policy.

Over the past 15 years, Parkes has worked across Europe. At the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), he worked on a special research project for the foreign ministry on the geopolitics of migration; at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), he headed the Europe Program; and at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), he worked as a researcher in Berlin before heading its liaison office to EU institutions and NATO.

Parkes holds a PhD from the University of Bonn and studied at Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, and Sciences-Po Grenoble. He has taught at the European Security and Defense College, NATO School Oberammergau, and NATO Defense College.

Languages

English, German, French

 

[Last updated: February 2024]

Dr. Roderick Parkes

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Publications

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron are on their way for a private dinner at the "Kochzimmer" restaurant in Potsdam outside Berlin, Germany, June 6, 2023.

A Different Way of Thinking about EU Enlargement and Reform

After a lost decade-and-a-half that saw the establishment of German predominance, there is now the acute danger of Berlin and Paris applying rejected ideas to enlarging and reforming the EU: Four principles for a future-oriented EU expansion and adaptation.

Dr. Roderick Parkes
IPQ
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European Union flag lies on the ground during the Pro-Europe "Pulse of Europe" movement protest at Gendarmenmarkt square in Berlin, Germany, April 2, 2017.

Why Europe Needs to Rediscover the Art of Political Innovation

Squeezed between the United States and China when it comes to innovation, the EU has been pointing to the “Brussels Effect.” Producing rules, though, does not compensate for not producing things. Europe needs more inclusive structures that reach beyond its borders rather than closing them down.

Dr. Roderick Parkes
IPQ

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