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.

How Berlin contributed to Tsipras’s victory

Germany should have offered debt relief to Greece when it had the chance, and the consequences of its mistake could be serious for Europe

Will Scotland join the euro?

Scotland’s new currency regime options all present difficulties, but euro membership might be the most attractive choice

What does the German coalition agreement mean for the eurozone?

From a European perspective, the German coalition agreement is better that the status quo – but it does not contribute to the economic recovery of the eurozone, and it is disappointing when it comes to banking union

Publications

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

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

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

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