Researcher - The European Union research programme

timo.behrfiia.fi
Telephone +358 9 432 7731

Academic degree
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, 2009

Expertise
EU foreign and security policy, Euro-Mediterranean affairs, contemporary Middle Eastern politics, German foreign and defence policy

Ongoing research projects
The EU’s role in a changing Middle East
The EU as a reference (Notre Europe)

Selected publications

Timo Behr, After the Revolution: The EU and the Arab Transition, Notre Europe, Policy Paper 54, April 2012

Timo Behr, Talking about the Revolution: Narratives on Origin and Future of the Arab Spring, EuroMeSCo Working Paper 9, February 2012

Timo Behr & Niklas Helwig, Constructing a German Europe? Germany's Europe Debate Revisited, FIIA Briefing Paper 99, February 2012

Timo Behr, “De Gaulle and the Middle East”, in Benjamin M Rowland, ed., Charles de Gaulle’s Legacy of Ideas, Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2011, pp. 85-99

Timo Behr, Hard choices: The EU's Options in a Changing Middle East, FIIA Report 28, April 2011

Positions of trust
Research Associate Notre Europe
Liaison Officer Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission

Languages
English and German (working languages), French, Italian (receptive skills)