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Serafine Dinkel

GEM-DIAMOND doctoral fellow

ESR 15 – Impact of competing models on the EU’s political conditionality in a turbulent neighbourhood

Serafine is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, the University of Warwick and the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on EU enlargement and neighbourhood policy, and EU relations with Georgia and Serbia.

Host Institutions

EU Norms Promotion in Geopolitical Context. A Comparative Perspective on EU Conditionality in Georgia and Serbia

Supervisors

  • Seda Gurkan
  • Luiza Bialasiewicz
  • Ozlem Atikcan
  • Olga Burlyuk
Serafine is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Doctoral Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, the University of Warwick and the University of Amsterdam within the Horizon Europe GEM-DIAMOND project (Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism - Democratic Institutions, the rise of Alternative Models and mounting Normative Dissensus). Her doctoral project, supervised by Seda Gürkan and Ece Özlem Atikcan, examines the EU's political conditionality in Serbia and Georgia in geopolitical context.

Her published research focuses on EU external governance and strategy, EU enlargement policy and German foreign policy. As part of her PhD, Serafine is a resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS). She was also an Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).

Prior to her PhD, she contributed to a high-level strategy project focusing on the EU’s capacity to act at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). She also worked as a Blue Book Trainee at the European External Action Service, as a researcher at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and served as a research assistant at the Chair of European and International Politics at the University of St. Gallen.

Serafine holds an MA in international security from Sciences Po Paris and an MA in international affairs and governance from the University of St. Gallen, as well as a BA in social and political sciences from Sciences Po Paris’ Franco-German program.
Publications

'Teaming Up to Compete: How the EU and the United States Can Manage Geopolitics In the
Western Balkans'. 2024, Dec 20. German Marshall Fund of the United States.
https://www.gmfus.org/news/teaming-compete-how-eu-and-united-states-can-manage-geopolitics-western-balkans.

'In Georgia, the Future of Democracy is on the Ballot.' 2024, Oct 15. with Elene Kintsurashvili. German
Marshall Fund of the Unites States.https://www.gmfus.org/news/georgia-future-democracy-ballot.

Overcoming Geopolitical Enlargement Anxiety. Internationale Politik Quarterly (2023, Dec 4). https://ip-quarterly.com/en/overcoming-geopolitical-enlargement-anxiety.

Europas Verantwortung in der Welt. Eine deutsch-nordisch-baltische Perspektive [Europe’s responsibility in the world. A German-Nordic-Baltic perspective]. Integration 1/23. doi.org/10.5771/0720-5120-2023-1-59.

Dinkel, Serafine, Schirwon, Dana and Stamm, Leonie. Integrating Feminist Foreign Policy Into the National Security Strategy (2022, Jul 27). German Council on Foreign Relations, DGAP Policy Brief 20. https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/defining-feminist-foreign-policy-germanys-national-security-strategy.

Dinkel, Serafine, Kirch, Anna-Lena and McQuay, Mark. Towards an Inclusive Europe, Inside and Out (2022, May 16). DGAP Online Commentary. https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/toward-inclusive-eu-inside-and-out.

Dinkel, Serafine. Buzzword Bingo in EU Security: Why “Resilience” Risks Becoming the New “Strategic Autonomy” (2022, Jan 25). DGAP Online Commentary. https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/buzzword-bingo-eu-security.

Dinkel, Serafine. (2021, Jan 3). Nordische Resilienz lernen [Learning Nordic Resilience]. Internationale Politik Special Nr. 2/ 2022. https://internationalepolitik.de/de/nordische-resilienz-lernen.

Parkes, Roderick, Schimmel, Florence, and Dinkel, Serafine. (2021, Dec 8). Strategic Compass: Petals Worth Adding to its Rose. TEPSA Recommendations 2021. http://www.tepsa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/TEPSA-Recommendations-to-the-French-Presidency-final-3.pdf.

Kirch, Anna-Lena, Dinkel, Serafine, and Kabisch, Fanny. (2021, Dec 7). Municipal Foreign Policy. Resilient Cities Foster Germany’s Capacity to Act. DGAP Memo No. 16. https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/municipal-foreign-policy.

Dinkel, Serafine and Gelhaus, Laura. (2021, Oct 1). Geopolitics in Europe’s Neighborhood: New Strategies for the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership. DGAP Memo No. 11. https://dgap.org/sites/default/files/article_pdfs/DGAP-MEMO-BTW21_11_EN.pdf.

Parkes, Roderick, Kirch, Anna-Lena, and Dinkel, Serafine. (2021, Jul 2). Building European Resilience and Capacity to Act: Lessons for 2030. DGAP Report No 13. https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/building-european-resilience-and-capacity-act.