The Failure of Schengen: A Report
17. February 2018On June 15th, 1985, five European states, including Germany, France and Belgium, signed the so-called Schengen Agreement. In it, they agreed to coordinate their judicial […]
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The European Payments Union: Back to the Future
4. August 2017Among monetary experts, there is a widespread consensus that the Eurozone in its current form is not sustainable. The key argument is that introducing the […]
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The EU as a Global Development Actor – Three Challenges
20. June 2017In 2015, the international community agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a new framework for global development. Against this background, the EU is currently revising its own development […]
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France & the EU at the crossroads
19. April 2017This time, French presidential elections take place in an utmost critical period. Less than a year after the British referendum and six months after Trump’s […]
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Accessio, quo vadis? The EU’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights
20. February 2017The accession of the European Union (EU) to the European Convention of Human Right (ECHR) has been discussed among Europeans for decades. In December 2014, […]
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Time to fight for Europe: What can I do?
7. February 2017Historic moments are usually not recognized by the people who live through them. Our present times seem to be a rare example. With Brexit, Trump […]
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Kosovo at a Dead End
29. February 2016Corruption, clientelism and patronage have led Kosovo into stagnation. More than a quarter of the population lives in absolute poverty, ten percent even have to […]
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Call for Applications: LACalytics
16. December 2015IFAIR is pleased to announce the start of applications for the LACalytics programm, taking place between January and October 2016. The project will bring together […]
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Dr. Steffen MurauExecutive Board, Impact Groups
Dr. Steffen Murau
Executive Board, Impact Groups
Dr Steffen Murau is an executive board member and responsible for IFAIR’s Impact Groups.
He currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Steffen completed his PhD in International Political Economy at City, University of London in November 2017. From 2013 to 2017, he has been teaching political economy, international relations and economics at City, University of London, University College London (UCL) and Columbia University, New York. Until 2012, he studied political science, philosophy, economics and international law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He interned at Deutsche Bundesbank and the German Institute for Security and International Affairs, and implemented a development project in Cameroon with a German NGO. Steffen speaks German, English, French and Arabic.
Contact: steffen.murau@ifair.eu
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