Conference: Should foreign investment be screened?
On June 8th 2017, ECFR'S Asia Program together with the EU-Japan Centre and the Federation of German Industries (BDI) organised a conference on the issue…
Experts & Staff
Volker Stanzel
ECFR Alumni · Council Member & Former Senior Advisor to the Asia & China programme
Areas of expertise
International affairs and security policy; German foreign policy; Japanese history, politics and economics, Chinese history, politics and economics; EU relations with East Asia.
Languages
German, English, Chinese and Japanese
Biography
Stanzel is also a Council Member of ECFR, a member of the German-Japanese Forum, a Member of the Board of the Academic Confucius Institute at Goettingen University, and a Member of the Board of the German-Japanese Industrial Cooperation Committee in Dusseldorf.
Volker Stanzel was a Senior Adviser at ECFR from 2014 to 2017
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: Terror in Germany and the refugee crisis
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Ulrike Franke, research assistant and expert on security and drones, Josef Janning, co-head of ECFR’s Berlin office, and Volker…
Law of the Sea: China, the EU, and the global order
The stronger China gets, the more important is the question of whether it will be a world power that wields its strength responsibly. The recent ruling against China by a UN arbitration tribunal brings this question into sharp focus
The self-emasculation of mainstream politics
In Europe and the US, mainstream politicians are losing ground as they pander to populist fantasies
Danger on the High Seas: The East Asian Security Challenge
Europe’s member states have too much to lose from a maritime conflict in East Asia to maintain their current position as a cautious observers
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: The world order in 2030
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to the Japanese Ambassador to NATO, Masafumi Ishii, and former German Ambassador to China and Japan and ECFR senior…
A war of character
In Europe's war of character against terrorism, level-headed circumspection will serve better than a rush to retaliate and demonise
The New Minsk Ceasefire: Avoiding Putin’s trap
Putin wants to pull the West into armed conflict, and it is right to avoid it
When America Simply Shrugs
Observations of a vacillating, hesitating superpower does not yet amount to the international community buying into the theory of America’s “decline.”
Shinzo Abe’s new lease of life
Abe's victory in Japan's snap elections gives him the chance to keep the promises that he failed to keep in his previous term
Publications
Danger on the High Seas: The East Asian Security Challenge
Europe’s member states have too much to lose from a maritime conflict in East Asia to maintain their current position as a cautious observers
Articles
Law of the Sea: China, the EU, and the global order
The stronger China gets, the more important is the question of whether it will be a world power that wields its strength responsibly. The recent ruling against China by a UN arbitration tribunal brings this question into sharp focus
The self-emasculation of mainstream politics
In Europe and the US, mainstream politicians are losing ground as they pander to populist fantasies
A war of character
In Europe's war of character against terrorism, level-headed circumspection will serve better than a rush to retaliate and demonise
The New Minsk Ceasefire: Avoiding Putin’s trap
Putin wants to pull the West into armed conflict, and it is right to avoid it
When America Simply Shrugs
Observations of a vacillating, hesitating superpower does not yet amount to the international community buying into the theory of America’s “decline.”
Shinzo Abe’s new lease of life
Abe's victory in Japan's snap elections gives him the chance to keep the promises that he failed to keep in his previous term
How Hong Kong’s protests weaken Xi Jinping’s strongman image
Hong Kong’s protests place Xi Jinping between a rock and a hard place, and Europe should be addressing it
No time for cynics: the German-American intelligence dispute
The US’s alleged spying was ill considered, but both sides need to focus on the real priorities of the transatlantic alliance.
The Ukraine crisis and the West’s true problem
The West's reaction to the Ukraine crisis was not as big a disaster as many think
Podcasts
Conference: Should foreign investment be screened?
On June 8th 2017, ECFR'S Asia Program together with the EU-Japan Centre and the Federation of German Industries (BDI) organised a conference on the issue…
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: Terror in Germany and the refugee crisis
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Ulrike Franke, research assistant and expert on security and drones, Josef Janning, co-head of ECFR’s Berlin office, and Volker…
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: The world order in 2030
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to the Japanese Ambassador to NATO, Masafumi Ishii, and former German Ambassador to China and Japan and ECFR senior…
In the media
Volker Stanzel on the North Korea crisis in Der Tagesspiegel
Volker Stanzel on Brexit possibly weakening the negotiating clout with Japan and China
Volker Stanzel quoted in Le Courrier du Vietnam on the South China Sea arbitration.
Volker Stanzel on the consequneces of violent attacks in Germany
Volker Stanzel's article on the asynchrony of China's growth