Claudia

Areas of Expertise

security and defence studies

security and military strategies and policies

EU-defence market and –industry

military crisis management

EU-UN Cooperation


 



Claudia Major

Visiting Fellow - EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris

 
  • Consultancy for the European Parliament (EP)
    Forthcoming 2007/08: co-author of a Standard Briefing for the EP sub committee ‘Security and Defense’ on “Battlegroups and logistics: implications of the notions of deployability and sustainability", depending on financial accord of the EP

  • Research Assistant at the Defence Committee, NATO Parliamentary Assembly
    January – June 2008 political advisory and research on

  • Visiting Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris
    September – December 2007: research project on EU UN relations in military crisis management.

  • Admission Jury, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris
    June 2007: Member of the admission jury for the international BA programme

  • Facilitator in international negotiations
    October - December 2006: facilitator in Israeli-Palestinian Track II negotiations

  • German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin, Germany
    October 2005 – March 2006: visiting fellow, co-operating with H. Riecke. Topic: EU strategic development, assessment of the European Security Strategy 

  • Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI), Paris, France
    March – September 2005: visiting fellow, co-operating with A.-M. LeGloannec. Topic: Europeanisation, European, French and German security and defence policy

  • IPA Network International Public Affairs GmbH, Berlin, Germany
    March 2002 – August 2003: Consultant in Public Affairs on security and defence policy and industry, telecommunication, WTO; in Berlin, Brussels Paris; working languages: English, French, German, partly Russian
    October 2001 – March 2002: Junior Consultant in Public Affairs on security and defence policy and industry, in Berlin and Paris, working languages French, German (part time, in parallel to my studies)

  • German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin, Germany
    January – August 2001: research fellow to Dr. Ulrike Guérot, head of the department “Europe/EU” and chief editor of www.weltpolitik.net. Topics: CFSP, transatlantic relations, institutional reform of the EU, enlargement, Franco-German relations