Protecting Europe from economic coercion: Strategy after the 2020 US election
Europe needs to enhance its toolbox for protection against economic coercion, carefully balancing its strategy in five areas
Experts & Staff
Jonathan Hackenbroich
Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Geo-economics, economic statecraft, security, sanctions policy, German foreign policy
Languages
German, English, French, Spanish, some Arabic
Biography
Jonathan Hackenbroich is a policy fellow for economic statecraft and the head of ECFR’s Task Force for Protecting Europe from Economic Coercion. His work for ECFR’s European Power programme focuses on economic coercion and geo-economics, especially sanctions policy. He is also an expert on German foreign policy.
Hackenbroich has been published in the weekly Die Zeit, the daily FAZ and Tagesspiegel, French daily Le Monde, Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, Deutschlandfunk, and in ECFR’s annual political trends papers. He regularly appears as a commentator in the media, and has been a podcast contributor at ECFR’s flagship podcast “World in 30 Minutes”.
Hackenbroich holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. where he specialised in US grand strategy, geopolitics and geo-economics. He also holds a BA in International Relations from TU Dresden.
Previously, Hackenbroich was research assistant to ECFR’s director where he acted as speech writer, podcast researcher, and strategic adviser to Mark Leonard. Before joining ECFR, Hackenbroich was a trainee at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where he worked at the foreign desk and wrote about geopolitics and strategic issues.
He has also been a lecturer on strategic political forecasting at TU Dresden. Hackenbroich had previous work experience at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, DC, the German Foreign Office’s Iran Task Force, the German Bundestag, UNHCR Jordan and with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Lebanon.
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Publications
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Articles
Protecting Europe from economic coercion: Strategy after the 2020 US election
Europe needs to enhance its toolbox for protection against economic coercion, carefully balancing its strategy in five areas
Promoting the international role of the euro: Ideas for substantive progress and greater sovereignty
Strengthening the euro would reduce the power imbalance between Europe and its international partners and competitors
Second acts: How Europe can renew the transatlantic partnership
This could be the moment to build a more balanced transatlantic relationship, with Europeans showing the US where we need it to engage, and how – rather than simply waiting for cues from Washington
How Europe can defend itself against US economic sanctions
Germany and Europe must defend themselves against US sanctions. They can strengthen their armoury in two ways.
How the US could ramp up its economic war on China
There are at least 11 different ways the United States could use economic weapons to harm China in the coming years
How Germany’s Constitutional Court jump-started the Franco-German engine
By defining legal limits, the Constitutional Court has forced the German government to reconsider its European policy – to make political decisions on Europe where it has the power to do so
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Podcasts
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Highlights of the Munich Security Conference 2019
Direct from the Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Mark Leonard, Ulrike Franke and Jonathan Hackenbroich share their post-conference insights. They discuss speeches by German chancellor Angela Merkel,…
Cambridge Analytica scandal
Jonathan Hackenbroich covers for Mark Leonard and speaks with Professor John Naughton about Facebook’s data leak and its monetisation of data. Bookshelf: East…
In the media
Jonathan Hackenbroich believes that, paradoxically, US sanctions will make Europe more likely to stick with Nord Stream 2.
The Handelsblatt refers to the proposals to "protect Europe against economic coercion.
Jonathan Hackenbroich comments on the future of Nord Stream 2 when Biden enters the White House.
Jonathan Hackenbroich analysed German data on Kurzarbeit and unemployment.
Following up on his latest report, Jonathan Hackenbroich explains why the first priority is to strengthen the euro and the technology must be brought up to date with a digital currency.