Senior Policy Fellow
Geoeconomics, economic statecraft, global economy
German, English
Tobias Gehrke is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, based in the Berlin office. He leads ECFR’s geoeconomics initiative. His areas of focus include economic security, European economic strategy, and great power competition in the global economy.
Before joining ECFR, Gehrke was a research fellow with the Egmont Royal Institute in Brussels from 2017 to 2022, where he covered geoeconomics. He has also been a visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore, the University of Nottingham, and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC.
He holds a PhD in political science from Ghent University.
Technology is at the heart of today’s great power struggle. To stand its ground, the EU should not only de-risk its trade ties, but advance its technological edge to build geo-economic leverage
The EU’s new economic security strategy contains strong foundations – but the bloc now needs to create a new strategic technology control instrument
The EU needs understand the root causes of the risks to its economic security – especially the race for techno-industrial leadership between China and the US
With its 11th sanctions package, the EU will enter the realm of secondary sanctions. It needs to set some ground rules for their use
Amid the US-China strategic competition, the EU must develop a new strategic technology doctrine and upgrade its export control policy
An effective sanctions campaign in wartime needs to be linked to a strategic industrial policy and technology control agenda in peacetime
‘De-risking’ could ensure the EU’s new strategic industrial policy addresses some of the major global challenges facing the bloc
The latest US export controls on semiconductor technologies traded with China mark the beginning of a new era for global technology trade. European states need to urgently discuss strategic export controls in order to participate in it.
The Inflation Reduction Act may reduce US dependency on China, but it also risks harming the transatlantic relationship. European governments must position themselves as critical allies for the US in order to preserve their economies – and effectively counter China’s geo-economic challenge.
Amid the US-China strategic competition, the EU must develop a new strategic technology doctrine and upgrade its export control policy
Technology is at the heart of today’s great power struggle. To stand its ground, the EU should not only de-risk its trade ties, but advance its technological edge to build geo-economic leverage
The EU’s new economic security strategy contains strong foundations – but the bloc now needs to create a new strategic technology control instrument
The EU needs understand the root causes of the risks to its economic security – especially the race for techno-industrial leadership between China and the US
With its 11th sanctions package, the EU will enter the realm of secondary sanctions. It needs to set some ground rules for their use
An effective sanctions campaign in wartime needs to be linked to a strategic industrial policy and technology control agenda in peacetime
‘De-risking’ could ensure the EU’s new strategic industrial policy addresses some of the major global challenges facing the bloc
The latest US export controls on semiconductor technologies traded with China mark the beginning of a new era for global technology trade. European states need to urgently discuss strategic export controls in order to participate in it.
The Inflation Reduction Act may reduce US dependency on China, but it also risks harming the transatlantic relationship. European governments must position themselves as critical allies for the US in order to preserve their economies – and effectively counter China’s geo-economic challenge.
Tobias Gehrke comments on the lack of EU harmonisation on investment screening, after France announced that it would extend FDI controls to the mining sector
Tobias Gehrke and Julian Ringhof on building the EU’s technological edge
The demand for economic cooperation is also shifting, from market opening and reciprocity towards an economic security agenda
In this interview, Tobias Gehrke comments on European, American and Chinese de-risking strategies and on the future of global trade
I think EU member states are not clear about what the risks are and how big those risks are, so there is quite a bit of demand for a better understanding of the data and evidence
Tobias Gehrke on European restrictions on investment in the Chinese technology sector
In this interview, Tobias Gehrke explains the European Economic Security Strategy
