Career
Johanna Möhring is a researcher in European security and defence associated with the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS), University of Bonn, and the Centre Thucydide, Paris-Panthéon-Assas. She holds a doctorate in political science and her research focuses on power politics in the 21st century. She is an ambassador and co-founder of Women In International Security (WIIS) France.
Her research focuses on European and Russian deterrence and Russian military strategy.
She is currently a postdoctoral visiting fellow at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and has a research contract at the ENS with a postdoctoral ‘Ambassadeur’ grant from the French Ministry of Defence. His one-year postdoc project aims to explore ‘nuclear mentalities’ in France, the UK and Germany, 30 years after the end of the Cold War, by conducting semi-structured interviews with ‘nuclear practitioners’ (civilians and military in ministries, as well as researchers in think tanks) in the three countries.
Publications
“Russia’s strategy in the Ukraine war: Restoring Russian greatness by any means “ in: HANSEN (Stefan), FRANKENTHAL (Kira) and HUSIEVA (Olha) (dirs.), Russia’s War of Aggression against Ukraine. “Zeitenwende“ for German Security Policy, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2023. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9783748917205-157/chapter-7-russia-s-strategy-in-the-ukraine-war-restoring-russian-greatness-by-any-means?page=3
“EUDIS, HEDI, DIANA: What’s Behind Three Defence Innovation Acronyms?”, Ifri Memos, Ifri, September 2024. https://www.ifri.org/en/memos/eudis-hedi-diana-whats-behind-three-defense-innovation-acronyms
“Troubled Twins: The FCAS and MGCS Weapon Systems and Franco-German Co- operation”, Étude de l’Ifri, Ifri, December 2023. https://www.ifri.org/en/studies/troubled-twins-fcas-and-mgcs-weapon-systems-and-franco-german-co-operation
Russlands Strategie im Ukraine-Krieg: Wiederherstellung russischer Größe mit allen Mitteln, in: Stefan Hansen, Olha Husieva & Kira Frankenthal (eds.), Russlands Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine: Zeitenwende für die deutsche Sicherheitspolitik, 2023
The Three Elephants of European Security, War on the Rocks, 2020
