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Dr Sebastian Bersick

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Dr Sebastian Bersick

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Senior Research Fellow - Dr Sebastian Bersick

Dr Sebastian Bersick

Dr. Sebastian Bersick is an expert in International Relations specialising in the politics of intra- and inter-regional relations. As Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Bersick heads the EIAS research department on ‘EU-Asia Inter-Regionalism and New Regionalism in Asia’ as well as the department on ‘Political and Security Developments in Asia’. He also holds the position of co-Editor of the ‘EIAS Briefing Paper’ series, an in-house publication providing in-depth analysis on issues in contemporary European-Asian studies.

Having studied Political Science, Economics, Sociology and Sinology at the University of Cologne and Free University of Berlin, as well as Mandarin at Xiamen University in the PR China, Dr. Bersick went on to receive a PhD in International Relations from Free University of Berlin. His doctoral research, on the politics of inter-regional relations and the ASEM process, was awarded the ‘Ernst-Reuter Preis 2003’ for outstanding doctoral dissertations. He has worked and lectured at the ‘Centre for Chinese and East-Asian Studies’ at the Free University of Berlin and in the Department of Economics at Bremen University of Applied Sciences.

Dr. Bersick has conducted several field studies in Asia and the U.S. and held consultancies on European-Asian relations and US-Asian relations for the German Government, the European Commission and several renowned NGOs, amongst others. He has published extensively on the political and economic aspects of Asian-European Relations, China’s foreign policy and the role of non-state actors in international relations.

Recent work at EIAS includes the European Commission funded “Study on the Economics and Politics of East Asian Cooperation and, in particular, China’s Role in this Process: Challenges and Opportunities for EU Policy” for which Dr. Bersick was a member of the international Core-Team of Experts with key functions in conceptualisation, research, writing and analysis. Additionally, Dr. Bersick is frequently invited to deliver presentations to wide range of international audiences including academics, diplomats, representatives of the business community, think tanks and journalists.

Bersick, Sebastian (2004), "Auf dem Weg in eine neue Weltordnung? Zur Politik der interregionalen Beziehungen am Beispiel des ASEM-Prozesses"
"Towards a new world order? The Politics of Interregional Relations: The example of the ASEM-process." Nomos: Baden-Baden, 273 pages. Details and scans avaliable here

Dr Bersick's Publications and Lectures  (pdf)

Dr Bersick's CV (pdf)

 

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