Cornelius Adebahr

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Dr Cornelius Adebahr is a political analyst and consultant living in Berlin, Germany. His work focuses on European foreign policy issues, transatlantic relations, and Iran. Since the end of 2000, he has been the owner of Wirtschaft am Wasserturm – Political Consultancy, Project Development, and Training. In addition, he is a non-resident fellow at Carnegie Europe in Brussels and an associate fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), as well as a member of the Team Europe of the European Commission.

He was a lecturer at Georgetown University (2015-16), at Tehran University (2012-13) and at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at Erfurt University (2005-2011).  From 2009-2011, he was a fellow of the New Leadership Foundation (stiftung neue verantwortung) in Berlin, and in 2002/2003 of the Robert Bosch Foundation’s Post-Graduate Program in International Affairs.

Cornelius studied Political Science (International Relations), Philosophy, Public Law, and International Economics in Tübingen, Paris, and at the Free University Berlin, where he graduated in 2001 before receiving his PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in 2008 with an analysis of the work of the EU Special Representatives. His analysis of the EU’s foreign policy towards Iran, with a particular focus on the nuclear negotiations (2003-2015), appeared with Routledge in 2017.

More about Cornelius can be found on his website.

Post Archive

27 March 2013
“Almaty II” is beckoning: Next week, the UN-backed talks over Iran’s nuclear programme will continue in the Kazakh capital. However, the Iranian leadership’s obsession with…
13 March 2013
Cornelius Adebahr argues that economic decline rather than the nuclear issue determine life in Tehran on the eve of the Persian year 1392. But a ‘perception gap’ between Iran and…
09 September 2012
Iran’s regular claim to be a superpower on par only with the United States usually makes people shrug. After all, the Islamic Republic appears to be very much a pariah on the…
19 July 2012
Seen from Tehran, a trip to London looks like a journey to the heart of the Evil Empire. For as much as Europeans tend to regard the United Kingdom as “America’s Poodle”,…
02 July 2012
These days in Europe, no one would any longer doubt the truly political nature of the common currency, the Euro. After all, it is an open secret that the Euro’s architects…
15 June 2012
A little more than two years ago in this blog, I wrote of a crisis coming to the German government. Looking back, one can indeed say that the government has been in a…
10 May 2011
Rarely were the price increases so enormous, rarely was the helplessness of the industrialized countries so great as in the rare earths sector. While precious metals like silver…
12 April 2011
Following the earthquake and the nuclear catastrophe in Japan, a state of shock, intuitive defensiveness and frantic political activity of those in charge of utility companies as…
18 February 2011
It started the New Year at 53, hopelessly out of shape and in the midst of an existential crisis of such terrible complexity the Greek Gods would wonder whether they hadn’t missed…
04 February 2011
The Egyptian dream of a peaceful revolution may have vanished under the cudgels of goon squads loyal to the Mubarak regime – the dream of freedom certainly hasn’t. That is what…
25 January 2011
For tomorrow, 26 January, the European Commission had announced to present a revised EU raw materials strategy. Based on the 2008 raw materials initiative, the new document was…
10 December 2010
The political reaction to the economic crisis shows two things: First, in moments of great crisis, the nation-state is the first port-of-call. With economic stability at stake and…