Johanna Möhring

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

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

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