Germany votes: European dilemmas in the Federal Election
In the federal election year, Germans are ready to give new European solutions a strong boost and take more risks
Experts & Staff
Sebastian Dullien
ECFR Alumni · Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
European integration; financial market regulation
Languages
English and German
Biography
Sebastian Dullien was a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. His research focused on European integration, international macroeconomics, and financial market regulation.
Dullien is a professor of International Economics at HTW Berlin, the University of Applied Sciences. He has worked as a consultant and expert for many different political foundations and sub-organisations of the United Nations, and he has testified in front of several committees of the German Bundestag and the European Parliament. From 2000 to 2007, Dullien worked as a journalist for Financial Times Deutschland, the German-language edition of the FT. He first worked as a leader writer and then moved to the Economics desk. From 2002 to 2007 he was responsible for the paper’s coverage of the global, European, and German business cycles as well as developments in German academic economics. Dullien writes a monthly column in the German magazine, Capital and is a regular contributor to Spiegel Online. He writes occasional op-eds for a number of other German publications. His recent book, Decent Capitalism (co-authored with Hansjörg Herr and Christian Kellermann, 2011), provides a blueprint for a better-regulated and more stable capitalism after the crisis. An earlier German version (Der gute Kapitalismus) has been widely discussed in Germany.
Trump’s poisoned TTIP chalice
The prospect of reopening trade talks with the US puts the European Union in an invidious position
Britain Steps Into a Deglobalising World
The trend for integration of global markets has softened and might soon even revert, which will force nation-states to rethink their trade strategies
How to avoid a post-truth world
It is time to recognize that the integrity of information is part of the critical infrastructure of liberal democracy
Trumped up trade: The end of an era
The days of US fiscal restraint, and of global trade growth outpacing GDP growth, are now over.
Europe’s Trade Policy: Can a Phoenix Rise From the Ashes?
TTIP is dead but CETA can still be saved.
The Apple tax bill is not protectionism
International conflicts are inevitable when governments challenge the excesses of multinational corporations
Bear any burden, and Paying the price
The EU should broaden the scope of what is expected of member states on burden sharing on refugee crisis, within more formalised, intergovernmental co-operation according to two papers from ECFR
Paying the price: The cost of Europe’s refugee crisis
Europe can more sustainably and cost-efficiently handle refugee arrivals by centralising management at a European level
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: The Panama Papers
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Publications
Germany votes: European dilemmas in the Federal Election
In the federal election year, Germans are ready to give new European solutions a strong boost and take more risks
Paying the price: The cost of Europe’s refugee crisis
Europe can more sustainably and cost-efficiently handle refugee arrivals by centralising management at a European level
A Fresh Start for TTIP
Given public opposition, the EU should make a fresh start in winning support for TTIP
How to complete Europe’s banking union
Landmark in European integration needs reforms
A German model for Europe?
Why the German model is not a blueprint for Europe
What is political union?
Three choices for a more integrated Europe
Why the euro crisis threatens the EU single market
Three scenarios for the future of the EU single market
Reinventing Europe: explaining the Fiscal Compact
Examining the Fiscal Compact & the growth/austerity debate
The long shadow of ordoliberalism: Germany’s approach to the euro crisis
The thinking behind Germany’s unpopular approach to the crisis
Articles
Can the European Union find a stable equilibrium?
Giving up sovereignty at the national level seems the only way to retain some kind of European sovereignty, writes Sebastian Dullien in his farewell commentary for ECFR
The underestimated economic threat from the White House
Given changing global growth dynamics, Donald Trump’s trade policies might just transform from a nuisance into a threat to the euro area’s recovery
Ten years after Lehman: Can liberal democracy survive another financial crisis?
It seems we have not learned the lessons of the recent past and may be doomed to repeat them in the future
The German barrier to a global euro
Heiko Maas has plans to circumvent the US; but they clash with Germany’s growth model
No right without might
Europeans still indulge in the myth of economic influence without military strength. But their soft power approach will fail without hard weapons
Economists’ tunnel vision in the current trade conflict: What does Trump really want?
Outside the White House, no one knows what Trump is really after. However, betting on Trump just being impulsive without any strategic aims might prove very costly in the end
Trade conflict with the U.S. is the only way to protect free trade
Free trade is about more than just about low tariffs. It is also about predictability, and the EU must not allow Trump to introduce arbitrary tariffs at will
Eastern resentment of Germany spells trouble for Berlin and Brussels
In Central and Eastern Europe, wage convergence with the West has stalled – and people are blaming Germany
Trump’s poisoned TTIP chalice
The prospect of reopening trade talks with the US puts the European Union in an invidious position
Britain Steps Into a Deglobalising World
The trend for integration of global markets has softened and might soon even revert, which will force nation-states to rethink their trade strategies
Podcasts
A new European payment system?
Mark Leonard speaks with Mark Schieritz from Die Zeit and ECFR's Sebastian Dullien about a new framework for transatlantic relations. The podcast was recorded on…
UK sanctions against Russia, and a new trade war
Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR experts Kadri Liik and Sebastian Dullien about the consequences of the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the…
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: The Panama Papers
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Stefan Kornelius, head of the international section of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and with ECFR senior policy fellows, Kadri Liik and…
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: Geo-economics and what it means for Europe
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks to Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar, former Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Parag Khanna, Senior Research…
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: The political economy of the refugee crisis in Germany
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to Sebastian Dullien, ECFR senior policy fellow and a professor of international economics, about the impact that the influx of…
World in 30 Minutes: Germany under criticism
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to Franziska Brantner, Member of the German Parliament, ECFR’s senior policy fellow Sebastian Dullien and Josef Janning, and Ulrike Franke,…
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: Greek Referendum – the Result
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to ECFR's senior policy fellows Vessela Tcherneva and Sebastian Dullien about what the result of the Greek referendum will…
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes – Greek Referendum
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to Loukas Tsoukalis, Professor of Economics and head of the Greek think tank ELIAMEP, and Sebastian Dullien, ECFR's senior…
A Fresh Start for TTIP
Sebastian Dullien, Senior Policy Fellow beim European Council on Foreign Relations und Co-Autor der Publikation “A Fresh Start for TTIP” analysiert die Vor- und…
Sebastian Dullien zur Bankenunion und was von der neuen deutschen Regierung zu erwarten ist
Senior Policy Fellow Sebastian Dullien kommentiert die am Vortag in Brüssel von den EU-Finanzministern ausgehandelte Bankenunion…
In the media
Sebastian Dullien comments on Germany's trade relations with the US and China against the backdrop of Trump's “America First” policy
Sebastian Dullien explains in an Op-Ed published in Die Zeit the difference between a european counterinsurance for nonworkers and unimployment insurance on EU level
Sebastian Dullien analyzes the US-american economic policy in an Op-Ed in the Tageszeitung
Sebastian Dullien was quoted by Mark Schieritz in “Die Zeit” regarding the consequences resulting from an international strenghtening of the Euro.
Sebastian Dullien quoted on the meeting of President Macron and Chancellor Merkel ahead of EU summit