After the JCPOA, the world needs Germany. But where is it?
Germany could put some heft into defending the liberal international order. Yet it still declines to do so.
Experts & Staff
Jonathan Hackenbroich
ECFR Alumni · 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 was a policy fellow for economic statecraft and the head of ECFR’s Task Force for Strengthening Europe against Economic Coercion. His work for ECFR’s European Power programme focused on economic coercion and geo-economics, especially trade and 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, the New Statesman, Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, and in ECFR’s annual political trends papers. He regularly appears as a commentator in the media, from the New York Times to German Handelsblatt, 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.
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…
Opportunities amid disorder: Europe and the world in 2018
2017: It could have been worse Prediction is a gloomy business, even in the best of times. It is neither fun nor interesting to predict…
In the media
A strong network of deep trade relations facilitates diversification — avoiding the kind of excessive dependence that another power could leverage for economic coercion
Jonathan Hackenbroich sums up the commission’s arguments for new EU trade rules
Jonathan Hackenbroich sheds light on the efficacy and future of sanctions in the context of the Russo-Ukraine war
Jonathan Hackenbroich discusses national sovereignty and the geo-economic state after Russia’s war on Ukraine
would have dire consequences for the German and European economies,
Jonathan Hackenbroich sheds light on the effects sanctions on Russia and the consequent gas cutoffs will have for Germany and Europe
Economic sanctions can only be one tool in the toolbox for enforcing global peace
Jonathan Hackenbroich provides us context relating to the historic use of sanctions and insights into how the current sanctions policies are being shaped by geopolitical movements of the past decades